Felipe Juan Froilán Marichalar and Borbón, greater grandson of the Kings, today received the First Comunión next to nineteen companions of his school, San Patricio, in a religious ceremony which they attended Don Juan Carlos and Doña Sofía.
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Felipe, as they call to him familiarly, was placed next to his companions nine children and ten children in the three banks of the first row, whereas his grandparents, the Kings, his parents, Dukes de Lugo, and their paternal grandmother, Conception Sáenz de Tejada, countess widow of Ripalda, were in the bank that was immediately behind.
Its uncles, Prince Felipe and the Dukes of Palma de Mallorca, as well as the sister of Doña Sofía, princess Irene of Greece, followed the ceremony from the third row.
They also attended the Dukes of Soria, Infant Margarita and Carlos Zurita. Like all the parents, Doña Elena and her husband, Jaime de Marichalar, went half an hour to the enclosure before the administration of the sacrament began, in a vehicle in also went its two children, Felipe and Victoria Federica, and that Duke de Lugo lead.
The last ones in arriving, seconds before the estimated time for the religious act, were the Kings, who put for the average graphs, in spite of bad weather with strong storms that whips these days to Madrid and other parts of Spain.
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The act needed their cousins, as much the children of Infant Cristina like the two children of Princes de Asturias, and Doña Letizia, whom second daughter, the small Sofía had to his, only twenty-four days ago and which feeds personally.
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