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The King on his granddaughter Leonor: ' She Eats, sleeps, grows... '
The King, with face of proud grandfather, confessed today that his granddaughter the Infanta Leonor, first-born of the Princes of Asturias, is very nice. " She eats, sleeps, grows ... ", don Juan Carlos said.
The small Leonor, which next October 31 will expire one year, and her cousin Irene turn out to be drawn together with her grandfather the King, who tells them a story, in one of the winning works in the edition XXV of the contest " what is a King for you? ", in that this year they have taken part near 25.000 children and girls of the whole Spain.
Summoned by the Institutional Spanish Foundation, the contest contributes year after year an ingenuous but accurate look of the figure of the King and of the institution that it represents: the parliamentary Monarchy.
Don Juan Carlos received this evening in the Palace of The Zarzuela the victors in the edition with which the contest celebrates its weddings of silver, with that it chatted and joked, beside being interested for their worries and aspirations.
The Royal Family in ' The Incredibles '
In representation of all the autonomous communities, the boys and girls, accompanied by their teachers, showed to the King the drafts, drawings, poems, sculptures, models and up to games with those who have gained the contest.
A game with the map of Spain and each and every of itsprovinces is precisely the work that there presented Gonzalo Azcárraga Aranegui, of the Basque Country, whereas Alvaro Maestre Martínez, Valencian, shaped the King in paper maché surrounded with immigrants. " He is the King of all the Spanish, also of the immigrants ", was making clear this way the lad his winning work.
More than 2.000 colleges have taken part this year in this nice initiative with which the Foundation FIES tries to foment between the students of between 8 and 13 years the first capture of contact with the History of the Wreath and his role in the Spanish society.
An initiative that in its twenty-five years of life has possessed the participation of more than half a million boys and girls of the whole Spain, according to numbers facilitated by FIES.
Camino Labarta Cacho showed to don Juan Carlos the " Royal Dictionary " that she has elaborated and with the one that has gained the contest in Aragon, whereas Paula Suárez-Lledó, with a portrait of the monarch, won in the Asturias.
As the solitary captain of a sailboat called "Spain". This way it has drawn the different King of the victors, Alfonso of the Mulberry tree, of Murcia, whereas for the Canary Victoria Eugenia Aguiar, Spain is a red and yellow planet surrounded with satellites: the autonomous communities.
Julián Lopez Rodríguez, Andalusian, had the occurrence of making for the King a briefcase of carton lined with don Juan Carlos' photographies since he was a baby up to today, and with a strap to hang in the shoulder in the one that has drawn all the autonomic flags.
Don Juan Carlos laughed with desire when he saw the drawing with which the native of Alicante Guillermo Recio Peyró achieved the first prize in the modality of " Special education ", and in that the King, the Queen, the Princes of Asturias and the Infanta Leonor they appear with the red and black suit of " The Incredible ones ", the cartoon that do the delights of the smallest.
One for one, twenty winners explained the reasons to the monarch for those who have decided to do a work and not other one, and already in informal chat they asked him about the rest of the Royal Family.
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