It's a boy!: Carlos Morales (born 30 July 2005)

[Angela - Natalia]

Originally Posted by Raia

i noticed on hello magazines web site they call Prince Phillippos, Prince Paul Nicholas where they got that name from i havent a clue

Hello is a bit weird anyway. The English is often badly written. V sicophatic so they make up for it that way thougth.

[marezdote]

Some more pics of when the family went to visit Alexia and baby Carlos (without big watermark. Anne-Marie and Sofia seem to be having a good time. From imaginescandinavia.com

[isabella_]

Here a clip from Yahoo.
http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplayli...19hni942f23b53
(Hope it works)

And this is the translation of some things they said:

(About the name)
-Alexia: We chose it together.
-Carlos: It was very difficult to find.
(laughs)

(About how Arietta and Ana María have reacted with her newborn brother)
-Alexia: Really well for now. We’ll see… but yes, they want to help in everything, which is a bit difficult (laughs) but…yeah, very well.

And for those who can buy it, Alexia and little Carlos are on the cover of the Spanish magazine Lecturas.

[Reina]

I really like Carlos cuz he seems to be his own man and comfortable in his own non-ex-royal skin! And of course he and ALexia are very haopy and have wonderful kids.

But I wonder, since ALexia and Carlos lead simpler lives, why do they do these photoshoots and press calls. Do they want to do it or does ex-King Constantine and Anne-Marie make them do it?

[Stefanie]

Do you really want them not to show in public any more? I´d be very disappointed if this happens! I´m quite sure, Constantine wants his family to appear publicily at times, though. With Marie-Chantal he becomes more and more successful because she´s well- known in yellow press by now. And she and Pavlos managed to become close friends to Mette Marit and Haakon, making Mette Marit Odyssea´s godmother f.i. The Greek royal family is one of the most in-public-showing former royal families I know. I have to admit that they are so far free of any scandals. Pavlos and Marie-Chantal seem very happy together for 10 years now which isn´t natural nowadays. And not to forget the announcements of all the pregnancies, marriages who have happened and still will happen (Nikolaos will be the next for sure....)
But I always wonder whether Carlos is able to offer Alexia a quite comfortable lifestyle only with his very own income. I suppose they live also from Alexia´s inheritance from f.i. her grandmother Queen Ingrid....One must pay for the evening gowns Alexia needs for the several occasions (wedding of Frederik and Felipe last year a.s.o....)

[Stefanie]

Former King Constantine and Queen Anne-Marie are brother and sister to still reigning European Queens. Besides both are the last authentic couple of the last century where both he and she were kings-children when they married! This fact makes them so unique. And this fact still touches our hearts. I for myself am always moved whenever I see photos of the good old sixties when Anne-Marie was the youngest Queen in the world. They may not have been successful in their job but they never gave in and even in exile their marriage works now for over 40 years and they educated their children very well and therefore I admire them, though I know they f.i. may never have been in financial trouble or so because they were and maybe still are supported by the Danish and Spanish royal family and by Queen Elizabeth.
I was born in 1960 and since my late mother was a yellow-press-fan I know f.i. Alexia since her birth and Anne-Marie was my really fairy tale Queen and the Greek royal family always belonged and still belonges to my yellow-press-fan life and always will.

[Alexandra]

I heard only just now, Alexia had got her third child. So bad luck, it was a boy, hehee...
As everybody knows, I am ALWAYS for cute little girls!
But anyway, congratulations to the parents and sisters.

[Alexandra]

Little Arrietta and Anna Maria are relly very, very cute! I have not seen pictures of them for a long time. They are already "big" girls! I would like to know if they can speak English or how do they communicate with their grandparents.

[Alexandra]

Originally Posted by princess gertrude

Does anyone else think that Anne-Marie looks different? I know that her hair seems lighter, but does she look younger to anyone else, or is it my imagination?

I just thought the same as you! She looks happy and much younger! But I like more brown hairs than lighh hairs!

[Alexandra]

Originally Posted by Stefanie

Former King Constantine and Queen Anne-Marie are brother and sister to still reigning European Queens. Besides both are the last authentic couple of the last century where both he and she were kings-children when they married! This fact makes them so unique. And this fact still touches our hearts. I for myself am always moved whenever I see photos of the good old sixties when Anne-Marie was the youngest Queen in the world. They may not have been successful in their job but they never gave in and even in exile their marriage works now for over 40 years and they educated their children very well and therefore I admire them, though I know they f.i. may never have been in financial trouble or so because they were and maybe still are supported by the Danish and Spanish royal family and by Queen Elizabeth.
I was born in 1960 and since my late mother was a yellow-press-fan I know f.i. Alexia since her birth and Anne-Marie was my really fairy tale Queen and the Greek royal family always belonged and still belonges to my yellow-press-fan life and always will.

Oh, Stefanie! I am absolutely with you there! There is something so romantic with Anne-Marie and Konstantin! Although I anm not a romantic type, but I like them very much since 1963, when I learnt to know them in the papers!

[Genevieve]

Originally Posted by Stefanie

Do you really want them not to show in public any more? I´d be very disappointed if this happens! I´m quite sure, Constantine wants his family to appear publicily at times, though.

I think it's rather sad that Constantine forces his children to be in the public eye if they don't really want to be, as I seem to get from Alexia. Constantine only seems to be pushinig his children into the spotlight to remind the world that he was once the King of Greece and still regards himself as such.

What is really in it for Alexia to parade her new baby in front of the media? Her children do not carry titles, they will have regular jobs like their fathers, and as time goes on, there will be minimal public interest in Arrietta, Ana-Maria and Carlos Morales. They will be the grandchildren of the former King and Queen of Greece, and what does that mean really?

Originally Posted by Stefanie

With Marie-Chantal he becomes more and more successful because she´s well- known in yellow press by now. And she and Pavlos managed to become close friends to Mette Marit and Haakon, making Mette Marit Odyssea´s godmother f.i.

Marie-Chantal happily parades her children and her marriage in the public eye not to boost Constantine's ego, but to boost her own prestige on the world stage. Even without the Greek royal family, Marie-Chantal was on her way to getting media attention. It's just easier for her now with the 'Crown Princess of Greece' title added to her name.

Originally Posted by Stefanie

The Greek royal family is one of the most in-public-showing former royal families I know.

They certainly are. Even more so than reigning households. And what is the point of their incessant presence in magazines and giving interviews? To say what? To do what? To achieve what end? They aren't going to be reinstated to the crown so why appear in Hello magazine to tell people how much they love Greece?

Of this entire family I admire Alexia the most. She goes on about her life quietly and respectfully. She isn't posing for magazines every other season like her brother Pavlos and his family. She poses when she needs to at public occasions but then disappears into the background again.

[kelly9480]

The Greek royals have never received financial assistance from the Windsors. EIIR won't help her own cousins out financially -- even the ones she's close to, so she's certainly not helping the Greeks. They used to receive money from the Shah, and now receive help from Greek shipping families. The Borbons and Danes have never been able to financially support the Greeks. The Danes aren't that rich, but AM would have whatever she inherited from her parents. The Borbons don't receive enough from the Civil List to fund the Greeks, and the family wouldn't have received much money while in exile.

[kelly9480]

Alexia said that she was going to teach her children Greek, and Carlos speaks English, so they in a few years, they will probably be able to communicate with them in either language.

[Stefanie]

Does anybody know whether in Spanish HOLA-magazine No. 3.185 there are the photos of Alexia presenting little Carlos? It is the latest edition and I couldn´t find a hint neither on the cover nor in the list. In earlier days such kind of events were "that" theme in HOLA with a detailed photo-story over 2 oder 3 pages. In No. 3.184 they only mentioned that Alexia gave birth to a boy and published the photos of Anne-Marie and Sofia visiting Alexia in the hospital.

[Stefanie]

In fact there are no photos in HOLA of Alexia presenting Carlos! I managed to get the edition No. 3.185. It´s the first time in years they "forgot" such kind of an event. Could be a hint that either the interest in the Greek royal family is dwindling or HOLA doesn´t want to give Constantine a forum any longer to present himself and his family in public the way he did so far.....
Let´s see if they bring photos of Carlos´ christening. If not, then we know HOLA is "ready" with the Greeks.....

[lula]

Originally Posted by Stefanie

In fact there are no photos in HOLA of Alexia presenting Carlos! I managed to get the edition No. 3.185. It´s the first time in years they "forgot" such kind of an event. Could be a hint that either the interest in the Greek royal family is dwindling or HOLA doesn´t want to give Constantine a forum any longer to present himself and his family in public the way he did so far.....
Let´s see if they bring photos of Carlos´ christening. If not, then we know HOLA is "ready" with the Greeks.....

I do not believe that it happens at all with the Hola, it is an August and in Spain it is the month of vacations, the magazines have the half of size of what is normal, and have a bit of disorder. Probably it they passed, because in the magazine if they announced the birth of the baby and lavisita of Ana Maria and the Queen Sofia.

[Stefanie]

To our Greek posters: How long will the weather be comfortable enough in Greece to still celebrate the baptism there? Until end of October? Or is it more likely that they postpone it into next spring?
As far as I assess Alexia she will get over with it as fast as possible.
Any guesses about who will be godfather/-mother? (Why not Marie-Chantal? Alexia is godmother of Olympia after all....)
I don´t know what I prefer right now: To see little Carlos already in October again or to wait how he´s growing until next spring. I´m afraid they won´t public new photos of him until the baptism.

[cuervo]

late May next spring,will be perfect!Little Prince has to wait, sometime to be an Orthodox!:)