Prince of Asturias Awards 25th Anniversary, 2005

[Elsa M.]

Originally Posted by LaChicaMadrilena

Wonderful speech! But it was so LOOONG that I thought he might have had some problems with his hals.

It was long, but it was so extremely well linked that it was not boring at all; but the contrary. And the last part of it (where he pays homage to HM King Juan Carlos and the Spanish Constitution) was particularly powerful and meaningful.

[lula]

Though sure that there will be some critique because Spain is and certain politicians like that they cannot live without calling the attention, I believe that the speech of the Today Prince has been very good and very important. He has said what many people were hoping that he was saying, and what many people were hoping that the King had said. All the newscasters have emphasized the speech of the Prince, and I have read some articles of press that think the same thing. This one is the most important speech of the year for the Prince, and I believe that he has said what many Spanish in this moment were hoping that he was saying. I go many years seeing the ceremony and I believe that this year the Prince has taken to himself more plaudits that never, it shows of that the people agreed with his words.

[Elsa M.]

Here's just an article (from Elmundo) echoing what Lula has stated:

http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2005/1...129916028.html

The Prince of Asturias has defended the Constitution, during the prize-giving ceremony of the prizes that bear his name. These words arrive in the heat of debates on the approval of the Catalan Statute and the tricky fragment embroider of the same one in the Spanish Constitution. The applause of the audience has also interrupted the Prince, when he remembered that the "historical reconciliation" and the understanding between the Spaniards have only been possible thanks to "the use and the respect to the Constitution and the constitutional values". After the ceremony, the present authorities have warmly congratulated Felipe de Borbón for his words.

[bubbles]

does anyone know where i can hear his entire speech?

thanks

[Elsa M.]

Originally Posted by bubbles

does anyone know where i can hear his entire speech?

Not the entire speech, but here you can see and hear a part of it, when Prince Felipe speaks of the Constitution:
http://www.informativos.telecinco.es...22principe.wmv

[bubbles]

Originally Posted by Elsa M.

Not the entire speech, but here you can see and hear a part of it, when Prince Felipe speaks of the Constitution:
http://www.informativos.telecinco.es...22principe.wmv

thanks Elsa M.!!

[Emily]

I was shocked and also pleased to see that Antonio Damasio received this prize for his work in neurology -- I know him. This really brings the whole Awards ceremony very close to home!

[carlota]

some more photos of the prince today (imagine scandinavia)

Prince Felipe in Oviedo for the XXV edition of the Prince of Asturias
Prizes in his name. He had a full agenda with personalities although
Princess Letizia will not attend the ceremonies due to her pregnancy. The
Prince inaugurated an outdoors sculpture exposition, walked the streets to
be greeted by the people.

[purple_platinum]

from manolo valdes' las meninas sculpture exhibition :

(from dateline)

[lula]

From getty:

[lula]

More from getty:

[lula]

From seeger:

[LaChicaMadrilena]

Oh Gosh... Tonight I was sleeping and all of a sudden I woke up. And do you know what was my dream about? I was dreaming about me, reading "El mundo" and "iHola!" in the internet and there it was written that the Princess has already given birth to a little GIRL! :) I couldn't fall asleep again and I wanted to check it, but at the moment my computer is in my parents's bedroom! So today I turned on computer and what? The baby (maybe girl, although I still think it is a boy) is still in his/her mummy's belly!

[lula]

Originally Posted by LaChicaMadrilena

Oh Gosh... Tonight I was sleeping and all of a sudden I woke up. And do you know what was my dream about? I was dreaming about me, reading "El mundo" and "iHola!" in the internet and there it was written that the Princess has already given birth to a little GIRL! :) I couldn't fall asleep again and I wanted to check it, but at the moment my computer is in my parents's bedroom! So today I turned on computer and what? The baby (maybe girl, although I still think it is a boy) is still in his/her mummy's belly!

The journalists are more hysterical than you. :p
Yesterday in the receipt that existed after the Prizes someone raised the rumor of which Letizia had been deposited again. For what they say the newspapers the people were looking for the father of the Princess to ask him until someone of the Royal House said that it was a lie .... so imagine how the journalists are.

But everything is calm, enclosed according to the agenda the Royal House Letizia will come on Monday to a dinner in Madrid.

[LaChicaMadrilena]

An article from "La Vanguardia" written by Mariangel Alcazar (btw, I really like the way she is writing about the Royal Family).
http://www.lavanguardia.es/web/20051...195881202.html

[lula]

http://www.canalfpa.com/ing/noticias/noticia77.html

Porrua to receive the 2005 Exemplary Town of Asturias Award H.R.H. Prince Philip of Asturias will visit Porrúa to present the Eastern Asturian community with the 2005 Exemplary Town of Asturias Award.document.write(fechanoticia('21-10-2005'))21st-October
Prince Philip will arrive at the town at 12 a.m. to the sound of the ?Llacín? bagpipe band. He will first watch a bowls exhibition by students of the Infant School, before visiting the Ethnographic Museum of the East of Asturias, where he will sign the Distinguished Visitors? Book. His museum visit will be followed by a stroll around the town of Porrúa. The Prince will make a first stop at the area known as El Parque, where the folk group from the ?Llacín? Traditional Music School will play the ?pericote?. He will then move on to the village drinking fountain, where he will be shown some of the town?s prize cows belonging to the regional ?casina? breed. H.R.H. will then continue through the street of Porrúa to Saint Julian?s Square, location of the authorities? rostrum and venue for the prize giving ceremony.

The presentation ceremony will begin with a welcome from the mayoress of Llanes, Dolores Álvarez Campillo. After a thank you speech by the local mayor, Luis Antonio Noriega, Prince Philip will dedicate a few words to the inhabitants of Porrúa, after which the "Llacín" Bagpipe Band will play the Asturian anthem. The Prince will then move on to the Municipal School and the Town Meeting Hall on the first floor, where he will unveil a plaque commemorating the Exemplary Town of Asturias Award.

After unveiling the plaque, H.R.H. Prince Phillip of Spain will then preside over an open Public Council meeting with 50 of the town´s residents at the Town Meeting Hall. José Luis Villaverde, representing the town´s cultural associations, will be opening the meeting and giving a presentation on how the Council works. At the end of the meeting, the local mayor will give the Prince gifts on behalf of the town´s residents.

After these meetings, H.R.H. Prince Phillip of Spain will be attending a lunch offered by the Prince of Asturias Foundation in honour of the Prince of Asturias and the residents of Porrúa, next to the School´s Sports Centre, thereby ending the Prince´s visit to the town.

[lula]

From elcomercio:

[Elsa M.]

Originally Posted by LaChicaMadrilena

An article from "La Vanguardia" written by Mariangel Alcazar (btw, I really like the way she is writing about the Royal Family).
http://www.lavanguardia.es/web/20051...195881202.html

Felipe de Borbón made his first speech on the occasion of the first edition of the Prince of Asturias Awards that were given in autumn of 1981. Twenty-five years later, in the same scene of the Campoamor theatre, that boy at whom his parents were proudly watching is now on the verge of having his first child, and that circumstance, together with the absence of the princess of Asturias, marked yesterday’s ceremony in Oviedo.

As it happened last year, there was a great ovation at the mention to Doña Letizia, who was not at the theatre, but finally her thanks were listened by the words that the Prince pronounced in her name and from the bottom of her heart. After the first years in which the Kings accompanied their son, the Prince ended up assuming alone the prize-giving ceremony. There were years when Don Felipe was growing together with the importance of the awards. By Oviedo there have been personalities like Yasser Arafat, Arthur Miller, Miguel Delibes, Carlo Maria Martini, Hussein of Jordan, Woody Allen and many other; more than two hundred personalities and organizations that have clearly marked the social thought of the Prince.

After the ceremony of the last year, the first one that Doña Letizia shared with Don Felipe, it was awkward to see yesterday again the Prince alone in the scene of the Campoamor. The Queen, as always, occupied one of the boxes of the theatre, specially moved with the arrival of the dancers Mayan Plisetskaya and Tamara Rojo, who agreed for the first time in a scene, and with the one of the Daughters of Charity.

Outside, on the street, the Asturian people and visitors specially cheered the world champion of F1, Fernando Alonso, and a surrealist detail took place, when the people who were accompanied the pilot made it difficult to obtain photographs of the champion, at his arrival to the reception that the Prince offered in the morning. The reason was that Alonso, who, like the rest of the awarded personalities, was transported in Audi, has a contract with Renault that prevents him to use and to appear him in public with any vehicle of another label.

Material subjects that contrasted with the intellectual and social commitment of Simone Veil, the inconformism of the Italian writer Giovanni Sartori, able to attack the very own Pope, and with the simplicity of the nuns of Vicente Paul, authentic champions in the distribution of breads, faith and hope, and whose humility even prevented them to take part in the family photo of the Prince with the awarded personalities. And it was the sisters who firstly moved Don Felipe, when commenting to him that they have prayed for Doña Letizia and the chil that is on the way, but mainly because they were the only ones, among all the awarded personalities, that destined the 50000 euros of the prize to solidarity causes.

All the awarded ones had words in memory of Doña Letizia, and it could not lack a reference in Don Felipe’s speech, to the special moments that the couple in living. The words of the future father equally shared feeling, knowledge and reason, the three ingredients that, according to Prof. Antonio Damasio, another one of the awarded personalities, must be mixed in equal parts, in the cocktail of life.

[lula]

Photos from FPA:

[Elsa M.]

I just now realised how cute these photos are
http://www.theroyalforums.com/forums...hmentid=204521
http://www.theroyalforums.com/forums...hmentid=204577

He'll be a great father! :)