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ONE YEAR SUPERPROTECTED BY MOTHER

NEXT 31st Leonor she expires her first year. Her health is perfect in opposition to the divulged slanders. Overcome the obsession for the speck, the parents have now a doubt: to what child-care will they take her in order that she is in touch with others small? Probably to that of the Royal Guard


In a few days, October 31, Leonor de Borbón will expire her first year of life. And, as affirms a member of the circle of the Princes, has had of her mother the best gift that she could do to her: the brother or sister who is in way.

Not only because the fact of living in Zarzuela surrounded with the Mount of El Pardo, does not facilitate the contact to the small one with other children. Especially because the enormous media expectation that has generated her short existence, has provoked in the Princess Letizia enough tension, specially in her first six months of life. " Letizia, who is mad with her daughter, as the Prince, is a too protective mother. Unlike Felipe, that knowing that the baby is nice, is more relaxed, she gives excessive importance to everything related to the girl ", it aims at the above mentioned source, which explains: " It is possible that the reason is the great pressure that the Princess has felt on having had to bring together her official role with her new facet of inexperienced mother. She knows that her daughter is also in the point of view. In an understandable zeal to protect her from the slanders that on her have been spilt, she has put a wall of silence, turning almost privately of State everything related to the girl ". Certain it is that on Dona Letizia they have circulated all kinds of dimes and diretes, as anorexia, abortions, binds of horns, or in vitro fertilization. That, far from stopping when Leonor was born, arrecieron, managing to steady that mother and daughter were at the edge of the death in the childbirth. Later, the artillery went to the girl, passing to speak of a rosary of supposed tares, being more insistent that she could be deaf and dumb.
Something that nothing has to see with the reality. Recently, the Prince Felipe, who takes in his portfolio photos of his daughter who proves to be proudly, was commenting: " she sleeps very well, she eats marvellously and she has had a cold ".

The words of the progenitor corroborate medical nearby sources consulted by CHRONICLE. " She is a calm girl, rarely she cries, not at least when one submits it to the punctual paediatric review, in which the majority of the babies start to cry. She has had throughout this year a height, a weight and a development according to the usual parameters. Also her nourishment has developed well, and in consequence it is neither baby nor fat nor thin. In short, she is a healthy girl ".

Something of what they have been witnesses the doctors who attend to the small one, habitually in a saloncito of the house of the Prince. The pediatrician of the Infanta is Fernando Mar, chief of the service of neonatalogy of the Clinical Ruber Internacional, where the girl was born, and also chief of the UCI of neonatos of the hospital Doce de Octubre. A prestigious professional that, as his companion reveals, is quarrelling to leave his cargo in this hospital, which one would allow him to dedicate full steals to the service of the Princes. Mar has been helped in Leonor's attention by Miguel Tapia, a military member of the medical equipment of Zarzuela, which exercises as family doctor of the Queen and the Princess Letizia. To know that her daughter was growing up well did not contribute that Letizia was relaxing completely. The test is that the Leonor's only stain, which was this angioma that went out for her in her nose to the month of her birth, brought of head. According to the medical mentioned sources, " it is a benign and very current speck, goes out for one of every seven babies. She doesn´t need neither surgical intervention, nor even treatment with laser, because in two or three years it disappears for if alone ".


Letizia gave an enormous importance not to the spot, but to what could be said on it. Especially when was published in a magazine of the heart that Leonor was going to be operated on, uncertain thing. " She was obsessed by the discretion, did not want that it was known at all ", they say. It looks like that in Zarzuela, to silence slanders, was valued to do a communique denying the news of the operation, but the Princess rejected it. The dread to which sobredimensionara this question contributed to that in her first months, Leonor was turning out to be photographed in few occasions. Neither anything, nor official has been known not semiofficially, of her short existence: how it is her room, who was taking care of it or where she was walking. The secretismo untied the rumors, which culminated with the false rumour of the deaf-muteness.

They were not easy moments those. Often, the doctors who visit the small one were gathered in their houses in cars of Zarzuela by the smoked crystals. Nobody, this way, could know if doctors were going to seeing the girl.

In vacations, taking advantage that in Majorca the Royal Family is more accessible, the strategy changed radically, turning the small Leonor into the summer queen. She monopolized many front pages( and the King placed as the most popular tenth personage in this country, above even of her grandfather.

Today the Infanta is giving her first steps. Letizia deals with her all the time that her official commitments make her free. Her relatives assure that " the girl is for her as a refuge that liberates him of all her tensions ". It is not strange that she takes her taken in arms. Often she her walks along the surroundings of her residence in Zarzuela, raises it to the palace in order that the Queen sees her and even, the ride to the administrative building, Magnolias, to show her to the personnel of the Royal Household.

CHILD-CARE IN PALACE?

Recently, in one of the offices, a civil servant gave a toy to the girl. When in jest, one wanted to take it, Leonor began to give stentorian shouts of protest. The civil servant exclaimed: " Caray with the shed! ".

She does not have contact too much with other children, except sporadically with her cousins, children of the Infantas Elenas and Cristina, with her cousin Carla, daughter of Erica Ortiz, and with children of friends of the Princes. Something that they think her parents solve, taking her the year that comes to a child-care. They shuffle the one that has the RoyalGuard near the palace, in El Pardo. It and the future brother or sister who will come in May are going to give one I overturn to Leonor's existence. Also to that of her mother. According to the mentioned member of her circle, " the better thing that could have happened to Letizia to relax with Leonor is the second pregnancy. Even without being princesses, the inexperienced ones always they fall down in the sin of superprotecting her children ".