Infanta Elena and Family, Current Events Part 3: September 2005 - January 2006

[Elsa M.]

Welcome to the new thread dedicated to the current events of Infanta Elena and family. The old thread can be found at: http://www.theroyalforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5726&page=10&pp=20

Please note that this thread is for Current News and Pictures only.

For posting pictures of older events, please visit this thread: http://www.theroyalforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7255


Have fun!

 

[iowabelle]

Lula was right, Elena does look like the Borbon family and not all of them are photogenic. I'm not too bothered by the hair but I wish she would do something with the eyebrows. (Just call me Carson Kressley, or more accurately Kyan.)

She didn't look very happy at this wedding IMO. In some pictures she seemed wistful.

 

[zarzuela]

Isn't this the same Christian Lacroix purse that she wore to Felipe's wedding?

http://www.theroyalforums.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=198680

 

[Elsa M.]

Isn't this the same Christian Lacroix purse that she wore to Felipe's wedding?

Yes, it is.
http://www.theroyalforums.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=94576

Probably, the whole ensemble is by Lacroix as well, since Elena often chooses him to wedding outfits...

 

[LadyS]

I think Elena dresses beautifully but I wish she would do something with her hair particularly when she is attending special functions. I would love to send both her and Princess Anne in for beauty makeovers.

Is it something to do with horseriding that both women keep their long hair?
I have nothing against long hair but in this day and age there are plenty of styles for women with long hair. My mother always says (when I tie my hair up) what is the point in having long hair if you always tie it up or back.

Sorry just my opinion. No offense intended to anyone.

 

[rchainho]

Elena of Borbon presented the Spanish Flag to the Aeronautical Techniques School in the Torrejon Air Force Base near Madrid.

http://www.imagine.photositepro.com/main.php?cmd=ShowGroupView&ViewImage=202610

The outfit looks very similar to the one that letizia used.

 

[lula]

From seeger:

 

[*SofiaM*]

I think these are some of the better photos of the Infanta ... Thanks for posting them lula!

 

[Elsa M.]

Elena of Borbon presented the Spanish Flag to the Aeronautical Techniques School in the Torrejon Air Force Base near Madrid.
http://www.imagine.photositepro.com/main.php?cmd=ShowGroupView&ViewImage=202610

Infanta Elena was dressed in the proper black long suit with the spanish laced mantilla over head and shoulders. She reviewed the troops and delivered a speach during the military act presided as well by religious and military authorities:

 

[lula]

http://www.finanzas.com/id.8674326/noticias/noticia.htm

11.00 hours: S.A.R. The Infanta Elena inaugurates the Center of Integral Services " City of Seville ", of the ONG It Helps, in the Plaza of the Sacrifice s/n, Seville.

 

[lula]

http://actualidad.terra.es/sociedad/articulo/infanta_elena_auxilia_508951.htm

Infanta Elena inaugurates center Helps with residence and formation

The Infanta Elena inaugurated today the new center of integral services City of Seville of the association Helps, in whose dependences, of 2.800 square meters, include a residence and classrooms of formation for persons with physical disability and motorboat.
Dona Elena crossed, together with the delegate of the Government in Andalusia, Juan Jose Lopez Garzón; the Andalusian adviser of Social Well-being, Micaela Navarro, and the mayor of Seville, Alfredo Sanchez Monteseirín, good part of the dependences of this center, which occupies the lot of a former barrack of the Police of which the front has been respected and the first one was squeaking, of 1929.
(...)

 

[Princess BellyFlop]

She seems very devoted to her country and to the spanish people. I was surprised to see how «touchy» she was with the residents at the center Helps. Those pictures don't fit wth the image of coldness that I had of Elena.

 

[rchainho]

she is a very good person indeed like her mother and sister.

 

[lula]

She seems very devoted to her country and to the spanish people. I was surprised to see how «touchy» she was with the residents at the center Helps. Those pictures don't fit wth the image of coldness that I had of Elena.

Everything opposite. By what it is in the habit of saying here in Spain, Elena belongs more similar to her father, nicer and affectionate than the Queen (that every time is nicer) or the Infanta Cristina. I believe that sometimes it gives another impression because on not having been pretty of face her gestures are a bit strange, in addition she lives more chased and criticized by the press that her sister Cristina, since one lives in Madrid where the majority of the press is and other one in much calmer Barcelona.

 

[lula]

From facetoface:

 

[lula]

From Casa Real:

 

[rchainho]

Is a Chanel outfit?

 

[lula]

http://servicios.lasprovincias.es/valencia/pg051011/prensa/noticias/Ocio/200510/11/VAL-OCI-175.html

Next Tuesday, the 18th there will be celebrated the delivery of the prizes that the magazine Telva grants to the best fashionable, national and foreign creators. Since always, it has had fights to obtain one of 460 invitations to the party, which is every year that of major packing of the season of Madrid. This time is going to be the first social act that will develop in the new extension of the Museum Reigns Sofia, work of the architect Jean Nouvel.
The important frame is adapted those who is going to attend to the act, that Infant Elena will preside over. There they will be, of course, all the awarded ones. Viktor & Rolf, both thirtyish Dutch that began hitting to the 23 years, and that have followed a race amazing, revolutionary, although on the base of an absolute dominion of the technique. His first pieces occupied the museums, jumping soon to make to pret-a-porter progressive that dispute the most advanced public. Of the Spanish side, one awards Torretta Robert, creator of the urban fashion without eccentricities but with a felt defendant of the aesthetic ultrafeminine contemporary and. There is a special prize, the one that it is granted to an eminent trajectory, that is adjudged to Manolo Blahnik, author of the most beautiful and famous shoes of the world, one of the Spaniards whose name sounds in all the countries.

 

[lula]

DUKES OF LUGO

Miércoles, 19 de octubre de 2005
[font=Verdana,Arial]INAUGURACIÓN DE LA EXPOSICIÓN "JUAN VAN DER HAMER Y LA CORTE DE MADRID"
Palacio Real. Madrid

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On Wednesday, the 19th of October, 2005

INAUGURATION OF THE EXHIBITION " JUAN VAN DER HAMER AND THE COURT OF MADRID "
Royal Palace. Madrid

 

[fanletizia]

http://servicios.lasprovincias.es/valencia/pg051011/prensa/noticias/Ocio/200510/11/VAL-OCI-175.html

Next Tuesday, the 18th there will be celebrated the delivery of the prizes that the magazine Telva grants to the best fashionable,.

Images of the event, from www.telva.es

 

[pdas1201]

OMG!!! She looks marvelous. I am just shocked. Maybe because its the first time I have seen Infanta Elena wear a shoulder-less dress. She really looks amazing, the makeup and earrings. Truly the right dress and makeup can make all the difference.

 

[Alexandria]

Elena looks amazing in that pink dress. She looks so glamorous!

Reminds me of last year when Cristina went to that fashion event with hair extensions in a ponytail and all made up.

Who knew the Borbon women could be such glamour pusses!

Edited: (to add pictures)
MADRID, SPAIN - OCTOBER 18: Princess Elena of Spain attends the TELVA Magazine Awards at Reina Sofia Museum on October 18, 2005 in Madrid, Spain. (Photo by Carlos Alvarez/Getty Images)

 

[Alisa]

Thanks for the photos Alexandria. Elena looks very very lovely...There is a "glamour puss" in all of us after all, and it's nice to see that side of Elena. I like her dress and her hair, the beautiful color of the dress stands out against everyone's black outfit. Very lovely. Thanks again.

 

[planetcher]

Very nice. Where's hubby?

 

[donnaK]

I usually like what Elena wears and think she is the best dresser in the royal family. But I don't like this pink dress on her. Pink is not the right color for her complexion and the dress looks like it's gona fall down.

 

[lula]

From imaginescandinavia:

 

[lula]

From seeger:

 

[Elsa M.]

Ooo lala! She looks GREAT! These Telva Fashion Awards are a must! Last year, Infanta Cristina looked this stunning way and this year... Elena looks just wonderful!
(I hope we can see Princess Letizia some year as well... )

 

[lula]

Ooo lala! She looks GREAT! These Telva Fashion Awards are a must! Last year, Infanta Cristina looked this stunning way and this year... Elena looks just wonderful!
(I hope we can see Princess Letizia some year as well... )

I don´t know, to my also I would delight that Letizia was coming to the Prizes Telva because always it is a very elegant act and with many glamour. But not if we will see some day there the Princess of Asturias. Normally the Infantas are alternated every year.
In the party also they were Laura Ponte, Mónica Martin Luque and Barbara Cano, and Carla Royo.

 

[lula]

From newscom: