Summer 2005: Palma de Mallorca

[lula]

From www.diariosur.es:

Letizia Palma de Mallorca's vacations it will return to assemble the Royal Family in their summer rest. Now the area of attention is the baby for that there wait the inheritors, who also will visit to the family of the Princess in Asturias.

THE bay of Palma will return to receive this summer, since it happens for more than three decades, to the Spanish Royal Family. One more year, the island inhabitant of the Balearic Islands will turn into the point of meeting of a family increasingly numerous that, carried away about the sea, decided in the year 1974 to turn Majorca into the traditional destiny of theirsummer vacations.
If last summer the innovation in Palm was the presence for the first time of the Princess of Asturias, this year the attention will return to centre on Dona Letizia and, especially, on the baby that the Princes wait by the ends of November. But the cameras also will look for the only daughter of the Dukes of Palma, Irene, who might expire two months in the island.

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Trip to the Azores

Since it is traditional, it will be precisely the ditch of the Copa del Rey , who is celebrated the first week of August, which it marks the beginning of the vacations of the Royal Family in Majorca, though at the end of July, between 21 and 24, Don Juan Carlos, Don Felipe and predictably Dona Cristina they will move also to the island to take part in the ditch Breitling.
But this year, before moving their summer residence to Palm, the Kings have foreseen to realize a short trip deprived to the islands Azores, invited by the president of Portugal, Jorge Sampaio, and his wife, Maria Jose Ritta. At the end of July, Don Juan Carlos and Dona Sofía will cross for three days the most emblematic places of these Atlantic islands.
Later, they will return to Palm for the Copa del Rey.

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Without displacements

Another innovation of this summer is that, for the first time in many years, the Prince of Asturias will not have to interrupt his vacations to be present at the, capture of possession of a Latin-American president. This summer, after his stay in Palm Majorca, is very probable that Don Felipe and Dona Letizia pass a few days in the natal land of the Princess of Asturias, since they did last year with the family of the journalist. Removed from the cameras, the Princes will find in Asturias the intimacy and the tranquility for that they look after the intense pace of work that they have supported in the last year and before the agenda crammed with acts that already waits for them from September. And also with the nerves that will have in November.


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Only a note on this news, according to a newspaper can that the Princes are in Asturias on the 31st for Baremboim's concert inside the acts of the Anniversary XXV of the Foundation of the Prizes Prince of Asturias; so probably they walk a few days in Asturias before going to Palm and not later like they did last year.

[zarzuela]

Are the King and Queen already vacationing in Mallorca?

[lula]

Originally Posted by zarzuela

Are the King and Queen already vacationing in Mallorca?

Not, they still are in Madrid. This weekend probably travel to Majorca because there is a ditch, but the next week they are going to pass a few days to Portugal invited by the President Sampaio and his wife.

[lula]

The Kings come this evening to Palm to begin their summer vacations

MADRID (EUROPE PRESS)

Their Majesties the Kings of Spain will come this evening, proceeding from Madrid, to the airport of Palma to begin their summer vacations, as reported sources of the Royal House.
The rest of the Royal Family will be coming to the island, since it is in the habit of being habitual, of gradual form and depending on their labour commitments. It is foreseen that the King don Juan Carlos takes part in the Ditch Breitling that is celebrated this weekend, where there is accustomed to take part also the Prince Felipe and, in some another occasion, the infanta dona Cristina.
In the Palace of Marivent, all the personnel are already ultimando the last preparations for the arrival of the Kings, with which one gives the shot of exit to the summer in Majorca.

[...JuAnItA...]

Originally Posted by lula

Not, they still are in Madrid. This weekend probably travel to Majorca because there is a ditch, but the next week they are going to pass a few days to Portugal invited by the President Sampaio and his wife.

In wich days they come to Portugal?
Do you know that they're going to visit?
Where will they be staying?
The visit is oficial or private?

Thanks!

[lula]

For what I have read the visit it will be the next week, I believe that they go to the Azores in a private visit, invited by Sampaio.

[lula]

http://actualidad.terra.es/nacional/...ent_409122.htm

The Kings travel today to Majorca, establish their in Marivent
Madrid, 19 jul. The Kings will travel this evening to Palma, where they will establish themselves in their official residence in Marivent's Palace, they informed sources of the House of the King.
In the next days there will come also the rest of the members of the Royal Family, the Princes of Asturias and the Dukes of Lugo and of Palma, with their children, though they have not promised to be the dates of their movement.
Don Juan Carlos will continue in Marivent's Palace with his activities of office, and next August 1 he will receive the prime minister, Jose Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
It is habitual that the chief of the Executive, who will pass in August in Lanzarote with his family, visits the King at least once during August.
Besides, the Kings will interrupt for three days his stay in Marivent to travel to the islands Azores, in a private visit that they will realize close on July 27, 28 and 29, invited personally by the Portuguese president, Jorge Sampaio.
During his stay in Majorca, the King will reconcile his activities of office with the practice of nautical sports, to which they are be very fond all the members of the Royal Family.
The forecasts point that both Don Juan Carlos and the Prince of Asturias will inform at the end of the same week in the third test of the circuit Breitling Med Cup, the ditch Breitling-Illes Balears, which will take place in waters of Port Portals (Palma).
From August 1 Don Felipe and the Infanta Cristina will celebrate in the bay of Palm the edition XXIV of the Copa of the King of Vela, in which they are accustomed to compete the King, in different crafts.
The arrival of the Kings today to Majorca is foreseen for half an evening, and they will be got for the principal authorities of the archipelago.

[lula]

The Kings land in Palm for comezar their summer vacations

PALM OF MAJORCA, 19 (EUROPE PRESS)

Their Majesties the Kings, don Juan Carlos and dona Sofía, landed this evening in the airport They are Sant Joan of Palm, where they were got for the principal authorities of the Executive inhabitant of the Balearic Islands, headed by the president Jaume Matas, whom the king greeted first, the delegate of the Govern, Ramon Socías, the president of the Parlament, Pere Rotger and the mayor of Palm, Catalina Cirer.
This way, the Kings came to the Majorcan capital without company of any member of their family, and they forgave specially the Princes of Asturias, dona Leticia and the Prince Felipe, who will come tomorrow. The rest of the family, the dukes of Lugo and the dukes of Palm, accompanied of all their children, who will come to the island in the next days.

[lula]

I believe that already you Know of my disability to place photos. For whom it wants to see or to put them them here there are photos of the Kings in the airport of Palm in Terra and Getty.

[Elsa M.]

Arriving at the airport of Son Sant Joan, in Palma de Mallorca.

Photos from Terra (specially for you, Lula ):

[lula]

Originally Posted by Elsa M.

Arriving at the airport of Son Sant Joan, in Palma de Mallorca.

Photos from Terra (specially for you, Lula ):

I see the photos in the Web, but later profit not to finish understanding how I must make to place them here. I feel a little useless.

[Elsa M.]

King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia arrive at Son Sant Juan Airport in Palma de Mallorca, for their traditional summer holidays at Marivent Palace.
From GettyImages:

[Elsa M.]

Originally Posted by lula

I see the photos in the Web, but later profit not to finish understanding how I must make to place them here. I feel a little useless.

Here's a short tutorial:
http://www.theroyalforums.com/forums...0&postcount=38

(Please remember our policy about posting repeated photos: http://www.theroyalforums.com/forums...ead.php?t=6135 )

[Bubbette]

Sofia looks good!

[lula]

(It is an experiment, I hope that it leaves or, but leaves or, I feel it. )

From Terra:

[lula]

Originally Posted by lula

(It is an experiment, I hope that it leaves or, but leaves or, I feel it. )

From Terra:

Thank you Elsa

[Elsa M.]

You did it, girl! You're welcome