Totally my point! If I were an onlooker who doesn not who is the child that will receive the Communion I would totally say it is Sofia!
But the whole family seem veyr happy and that is what matters after all... I hope Leonor will enjoy this special day!
, but, much as I recall the dress, the gloves, the shoes, the fuss over my hair - what I most recall WAS the solemnity, the butterflies in my stomach at the thought, the first time I received the host. That I recall clearly, as if it were yesterday. I don't recall what it was like to wear the dress and all the rest of it that I see in the photos.
It's not the family's fault - they are following the rules. But the whole thing is ridiculous. I've seen this family get together for Easter Mass. How does one dress casually for Easter Mass and dress to the nine's for a First Communion????
I made my own First Communion, admittedly in the year 1417 AD or thereabouts, before we were so "englightened"
. The school decides that every child will be in uniform so nobody stands out, it has nothing to do with each family's devotion. Furthermore, a first communion is a special day for the child and the family that only takes place once in their lifetime.
She has told as well they would celebrate it later "at home".
I felt the same way remembering my own and my children's First Communions. Leonor's beaming smile tells me that she was happy to achieve this milestone in her life. Congratulations to Leonor and her classmates!It's nice to see the whole family in such a happy gatering.
Leonor looks happier as ever. This brings back the memories from my very own First Communion when I thought it was the most wonderful day in my life and I felt so important and grown up
She was really sweet answering the press with her big smile when they asked King Felipe about the ceremony: "I was very nervous!"
The school only allowed six persons per child, the royal family was already exceeding it:
1 Don Felipe de Borbón y Grecia
2 Doña Letizia Ortiz y Rocasolano
3 Doña Sofía de Borbón y Ortiz
4 Don Juan Carlos de Borbón y Borbón
5 Doña Sofía de Grecia y Dinamarca
6 Sr Jesús Ortiz y Álvarez (grandfather)
7 Sra Ana Togores y Guisasola (step-grandmother)
8 Sra Paloma Rocasolano y Rodríguez (grandmother)
9 Sra Menchú Álvarez y Del Valle (great-grandmother)
I don't think the Ortiz family is "more important" than the other. Note that none of aunts/uncles/cousins/cousines, not from paternal and not from maternal side, were attending. Were Don Juan or Doña Mercedes (the royal great-grandparents) still alive, they would have attended as well. We can be sure about that.
Is the step-grandmother more important than Infanta Elena? I guess it is a European thing.
Good point GracieGiraffe!
I have to admit I did wonder how the "old" Princess of Asturias would act when there was a new one. I thought she might be a bit of a diva, and The Queen of Spain wearing transparent plastic shoes to such an important milestone in her daughter's life, more importantly, in The Princess of Asturias's life, Infanta Leonor's First Communion, just answered my question.
