The AFP wire story (illustrated with one of today's official images from the Palace)
Spain's newborn royal takes a bow
MADRID (AFP) - Spaniards got their first glimpse of Leonor, daughter of Princess Letizia and heir to the throne Prince Felipe, as the royal couple left the clinic where she was born a week ago to showed her off to the public.
Beaming from ear to ear, former television news presenter Letizia left the private Ruber International clinic where she gave birth by Caesarean section to La Infanta Leonor in a private maternity clinic a week ago
"I feel very happy, just great. She's precious," said Letizia, clad in a cream trouser suit, on leaving the clinic just after midday (1100 GMT).
"She's fine, she's quiet," she added of the baby on her arm, who slept soundly through the media hubbub.
"She's eating well -- and sleeps all the time," said Felipe, likewise smiling broadly.
The child is second in line to the throne after 37-year-old Felipe but can only become queen if Spain undertakes constitutional reform to end the male primacy enshrined in its succession laws.
Felipe benefited from the current arrangement to become heir in preference to two older sisters.
Likewise, without reform, if Leonor has a brother he would move ahead of her in line for the throne.
