Christening of Infanta Leonor: January 14, 2006

[lula]

From La Vanguardia, La Razón

[agm]

From EL Ideal Gallego

[fanletizia]

Number 70 of the Gala magazine will be tomorrow in the kiosks with all the details of the baptism of the first-born daughter of Princes de Asturias, who yesterday received the sacrament in the palace of the Zarzuela.

http://www.laverdad.es/albacete/pg06...R-SOC-108.html

[fanletizia]

The Christenning of Infanta Leonor has great repercussion in the american press

Argentina
http://www.eldiariodeparana.com.ar/t...p.asp?id=86527

Mexico
http://estadis.eluniversal.com.mx/estilos/46867.html

Colombia
http://www.tercera.cl/medio/articulo...944242,00.html

Chile
http://www.lanacion.cl/prontus_notic...114125218.html

Perú
http://www.peru21.com/P21Online/Html...do0437948.html

Bolivia
http://www.la-razon.com/versiones/20060115_005422/

Venezuela
http://elobservador.rctv.net/Noticia...187530&Tipo=29

Brasil
http://noticias.correioweb.com.br/ma...1576&sub=Mundo
...

[fanletizia]

A radiating princess Doña Letizia shone with own light.

The Princess guessed right completely with robs-manteau - a dress-shelter of wool ceremony rebuked in tone toasted put in with tapes of silk in crude. With the silhouette totally recovered of the pregnancy, she returned to his fine heels, with a shoe flat hall in champán. Sober in the accessories, most showy in his atuendo they were the earrings brilliant lengths and to per those that excelled by the tufts of their melena. Made up and combed very well, Doña Letizia did not separate of her daughter during the time that lasted the ceremony and the greetings to the representatives of the different institutions from the State.

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http://www.diariovasco.com/pg060115/...A-GEN-285.html

[LaChicaMadrilena]

The dolly is Leonor de Borbón Ortiz. Here you have a little part of Queen Sofia's boigraphy from Casa Real:
El 14 de mayo de 1962 contrajo matrimonio en Atenas con el Príncipe Don Juan Carlos de Borbón y Borbón, y en los años siguientes nacieron sus tres hijos: la Infanta Elena el 20 de diciembre de 1963, la Infanta Cristina el 13 de junio de 1965, y el Príncipe Felipe el 30 de enero de 1968. Tiene siete nietos: Leonor de Borbón Ortiz, hija de los Príncipes de Asturias, Felipe y Victoria de Marichalar y de Borbón, hijos de la Infanta Elena y su esposo, D. Jaime de Marichalar, Duques de Lugo, y Juan, Pablo, Miguel e Irene Urdangarin y de Borbón, hijos de la Infanta Cristina y su esposo, D. Iñaki Urdangarin, Duques de Palma de Mallorca.

[carlota]

thanks everyone for the photos! the christening was definetely lovely. all the royal ladies, specially letizia, looked radiant.
out of all the pictures i choose these two definetely heartwarming ones: leonor sleeping and smiling and leonor with eyes wide open looking at mum letizia and smiling.
she looks so much like letizia's father in most of the photos...
http://www.theroyalforums.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=223929&d=1137248435

http://www.theroyalforums.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=223865&d=1137242592

[fanletizia]

The institutions of the State endorse the Infanta as future heiress of Spain
The Royal House dresses the baptism in a solemnity

The infant called to being the heiress of Corona and future Queen of Spain after Prince Felipe de Borbón was baptized yesterday in the Palace of the Zarzuela in a familiar ceremony had with a special solemnity by the attendance of the representatives of the main powers and the high magistratures of the State, that with their presence emphasized the high rank of the seventh granddaughter of the King.

http://www.lasprovincias.es/valencia...L-SUB-195.html

[KikkiB]

At the bottom of this website
http://pub.tv2.no/nettavisen/side2/k...icle534670.ece
there is a slideshow with lovely photos from the christening.

[agm]

From TELETRECE (Chile)

VIDEO: http://teletrece.canal13.cl/t13/html...al/250455.html

From clarin (Argentina)

VIDEO:http://www.clarin.com/diario/2006/01...do/i-02501.htm

[fromEU]

Originally Posted by Scherezada

Dont take me wrong please but I wonder what's wrong with little Leonor nose? Is red and Letizia, being a right handed person had it always on her left hand like trying to hide something. Look at the close ups. She have something on her little nose.

carrying the baby in the left arm, was so that the photographers could get pictures of the baby. In the right arm the babys face would have been hidden all through the baptizm.

[almab]

Has the christening dress been discussed? If so, please point me to it. I am very interested in reading a description of it and the beautiful embroidered cape Leonor wore.

[lula]

Originally Posted by almab

Has the christening dress been discussed? If so, please point me to it. I am very interested in reading a description of it and the beautiful embroidered cape Leonor wore.

The dress was realized by a nuns in Rome for Don Juan Carlos' baptism. After the Prince and the Infantas were baptized with it . The grandsons of the Kings also have been baptized by this garment, though ithad to be enlarged, because before the babies were baptized with days and now with months.

[purple_platinum]

i've been gone all day, and finally finally, had a chance to watch "corazon,corazon" from TVE. :o :o

there are several nice moments captured there, for isntance : it's so cute when Victoria tried to took some digi pics and it's nice when she put her hand on little Leonor's face... i like it when Felipe put his arm around Letizia's waist (btw, how come felipe didn't hold leonor even once during the whole christening?)... and i love it when the King kissed Leonor (i thought he didn't. is there a picture of that?)... :)

and at the end, when the Kings and Princes of Asturias thanked the press. what did they say? i think the Queen said something and the press laughed. an inside joke?

[rchainho]

someone has the article of the spanish journal EL PAIS, that the title is "Habrá sopresa, pero no ahora"?

[agm]

some image captures from tve

[lula]

Purple, I also have seen " Corazón, Corazón".

Victoria was very nice with her camera of photos, like her mother.
The grandmother of Letizia, very tender Enriqueta kissing her granddaughter and Leonor. And very nice giving a kiss to the King, she was very spontaneous, but she is a very major woman and it is understood. The Queen was very affectionate with her.
It has seemed to me that Letizia has spilt some tear when they were presenting the girl before the Virgin, is a shame that was not meeting the face. The nuns were singing a "nana" for the girl.

[lula]

Originally Posted by rchainho

someone has the article of the spanish journal EL PAIS, that the title is "Habrá sopresa, pero no ahora"?

It was one of the anecdotes. The journalist was referring that if Leonor would have more names, and she asked that if there would be surprise ... the Prince listened badly and thought that they were asking him about the future children. The nerves, there were many people ... I believe that El País, this holder has put with a double intention, for the graceful anecdote, and for the importance that will have the moment in which the Princes decide to give a brother or a sister Leonor, for the topic of the Constitution. I have understood it this way.

It is only the holder of front page, the article is normal, which happens is that in Spain there are many newspapers and many magazines, and they have to be original when the holders search.

[mtbcm]

Originally Posted by Scherezada

Dont take me wrong please but I wonder what's wrong with little Leonor nose? Is red and Letizia, being a right handed person had it always on her left hand like trying to hide something. Look at the close ups. She have something on her little nose.

I think no one will take you wrong for noticing those amazing details that we usually miss in the emotion that these pics cause... And in those details one can see how much all this cerimony was thought over and over.

I went to other SRF Christenings threads and also noticed that in previous Christenings - King Juan Carlos' and Prince Felipe's - the Godmothers carried them with left arm in some ocasions...

Don Juan http://www.theroyalforums.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=8142&d=1055003363


Queen Victoria Eugenia holding her godchild with her left arm
http://www.theroyalforums.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=25332&d=1068114788

and I don't believe they were trying to hide anything since this two men turn out perfect and gorgeous...

As for the nose issue, lets wait and see!

I don't believe that if it was a birth mark parents had to cover her in Christening Day. Infanta Doña Leonor will be very much fotographed during her life so it would be a simple waist of time... And two weeks ago in Lanzarote she had nothing in her nose, so she must have harmed herself with a nail or so...

Here she is sticking her tongue showing her perfect, round and Borbonish nose

Regards,
mtbcm :)

[lula]

Originally Posted by agm

some image captures from tve

Thank you agm, I believe that there were moments in which the photographer was a bit slept and there have been very tender scenes of which there are no photos.