Princess of Asturias admitted to the Ruber Clinic: Baby Watch begins!


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Let's wish her the best of luck, for everthing to go smoothly and to be as painless as possible!
 
For the information that are appearing in the web of the newspapers it seems that this is not a false alarm, though at the moment there is no news of the Royal house.

From abc:
 

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if like has been said the contractions started at 16,00 then has been 7 hours it could be anytime now :p
 
...sOfIa.... said:
if like has been said the contractions started at 16,00 then has been 7 hours it could be anytime now :p

For women who give birth for the first time it's not unusual to take much longer. So it could be another couple of hours, too.
 
From Hola: http://www.hola.com/abonados/casasreales/2005/10/30/familia-princesa/

Menchu Álvarez del Valle, grandmother of dona Letizia, travelled to Madrid this weekend foreseeing probably that her granddaughter would give to light before them foreseen. The grandmother of the Princess of Asturias moved on Friday evening to the capital of Spain, where she was waited by her sister Maria Luisa . In Hola.com we could not have confirmed if it has taken place or not a meeting between Menchu - that lodges these days at Maria Luisa's house - and dona Letizia, but yes that the presence of this one was really important for the wife of don Felipe.
So importantly as he had been that of her mother grandparents, dona Enriqueta and don Francisco, which the princess of Asturias loves very much and to that, contrariamente to what it has been said, visit with many frequency. Dona Enriqueta and don Francisco remain in this moment and for reasons of health waiting the great news is communicated to them in their house of Alicante.
The same thing that the mother of the Princess of Asturias, Paloma Rocasolano; her sister Erika and her father, don Jesus Ortiz, who are also to the wait of receiving the last news in their respective domiciles. Likewise, we could have known that Telma, the sister of the Princess of Asturias, who is destined in Asia as cooperating, has received a call of telephone in the one that her was communicating that dona Letizia had been deposited at the last hour of this evening in the clinic Ruber of Madrid and that " everything was OK ".
 
Good, i just went to do some uni work and i missed the news :p

There already a small crowd of people with gift to the baby :) Everyone is waint the big news!!
 
Smilla said:
Yes, and how silly will they look if this turned out to be another false alarm. :)

The Royal House already confirmed that the Princess was admited following the doctors order.

I trying to imagine how Felipe is now :D
 
TVE sais it is not a false alarma and that Letizia is already in labour.!!!
 
Some reading while we wait from London's Times:

The Sunday Times October 30, 2005

Pregnant princess casts spell on Spain
Matthew Campbell and Graham Keeley, Barcelona

THEY call it the “Letizia effect” and it has brought smiles to the faces of the Spanish royal family. Letizia Ortiz, the pregnant wife of Crown Prince Felipe, is credited with single-handedly reviving the appeal of royal Spain.
Opinion polls show that the Spanish royal family has reached a summit of popularity and experts put it down to Letizia bringing, in the words of one observer, a “welcome breath of fresh air” into the palace in Madrid.

“Letizia is reaching saint-like status,” said a European diplomat in Madrid. “It is quite a change from the early days.”

Her detractors before the marriage were conservatives objecting to her status as a divorced television journalist who had had several boyfriends.

After meeting the prince at a dinner party in 2002, she saw him again on a beach while filming a report about an oil spillage from a tanker. After a few more romantic encounters she became the target of such intense public scrutiny that even the bed she had slept in on honeymoon with her first husband was paraded on television.

The negative comments have now ceased and last week, by contrast, Spain was obsessed with the sex of Letizia’s child and what name would be chosen. Newspapers were filled with pictures of the princess and internet websites were singing her praises and debating whether Felipe should attend the birth.

Such “Letizia mania” was akin to the craze among Norwegians for their eight months-pregnant Crown Princess Mette-Marit. Norway had been divided in 2000 when Crown Prince Haakon, the country’s next ruler, announced his engagement to Mette-Marit, a single mother who had had a child with a convicted drug user. Today, however, she can do no wrong.

Letizia, meanwhile, has nudged Spain along the road to the more modern royal family that it apparently wanted. A year ago polls found that more than half of Spaniards considered the royal family “out of date”. Before the wedding of Letizia and Felipe in May last year, most said they had little or no interest in the nuptials.

That has all changed and two-thirds of Spaniards see Letizia, the daughter of a nurse, as the most important factor boosting the popularity of the Spanish Bourbons.

The royal family was exiled under General Francisco Franco. But King Juan Carlos, who was installed on the throne after the death of the military dictator in 1975, is credited with having played a crucial role in the consolidation of Spanish democracy. The focus these days is on Letizia.

“Letizia has somewhat overshadowed the king recently,” said one diplomat.

“She is increasingly the figurehead for the new era.”

An overwhelming majority of Spaniards think it “positive” that Letizia has worked in the real world and enjoyed a professional career. A similarly impressive majority (94%) considered her “an authentic model for our age”, while 82% of those questioned thought she would make a good queen.

She certainly looks the part. Since their wedding, Letizia has accompanied Felipe on visits to America, Mexico, a number of South American countries, Jordan and the Czech Republic.

After an erratic start in which there were complaints that she had occasionally stood on Felipe’s right side — a breach of protocol — she has mastered royal etiquette and dutifully learnt to ski and to sail, favourite Spanish royal hobbies.

The baby is due this week and almost the entire country held its breath recently when Letizia was rushed to hospital after experiencing what she believed were contractions. It was a false alarm and she was sent home after an examination.

Focus on what will be Juan Carlos’s seventh grandchild is so intense that there is even a political aspect under discussion. Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, the Socialist prime minister, had promised a constitutional reform to “modernise” the rules of the succession. These state that male heirs have precedence but Zapatero, an ardent campaigner for sexual equality, wants “parity” and argues that male and female royal heirs should have the same rights.

The reform process is exceedingly complex, even though there appear to be scarcely any objections. Consequently, Zapatero is in no hurry and there is talk of addressing the issue in 2008.

Which leaves the problem of whether, should Letizia have a girl, the reform should apply retroactively to her first-born. That question can keep Spaniards chatting for hours.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1849094,00.html
 
That's exciting news! I hope everything will be allright with Letizia and the baby! :)
 
Reuters wire story"

Pregnant Spanish princess checks into clinic
Sun Oct 30, 2005 8:34 PM GMT

MADRID (Reuters) - Princess Letizia, the future Queen of Spain who is expecting her first baby, checked in to a Madrid clinic on medical advice on Sunday evening, the Royal Palace said.

Letizia, whose title is princess of Asturias, was driven to the Ruber International clinic accompanied by her husband Crown Prince Felipe.

"The princess of Asturias was admitted to the Ruber International clinic following a medical recommendation," the palace said.

Photographers and television crews converged on the clinic amid speculation that the royal birth may be imminent.

The Palace announced in May that Letizia was pregnant with her first child, due in mid-November.

Letizia was admitted to the clinic on October 18 suffering from discomfort but left after several hours under medical observation.

A glamorous former television presenter, Letizia Ortiz married Felipe in May 2004.

The wedding of Felipe to Letizia, a divorcee, symbolised a new dawn for the country just over two months after the Madrid train bombings that killed 191 people.

If the royal couple were to have a girl she could be the first Spanish princess to have the same right as a boy to accede to the throne.

The Socialist government is looking into changing the law under which male children take precedence in the succession to the throne.

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/new...TRUKOC_0_UK-SPAIN-PRINCESS.xml&archived=False
 
The journalists were warned by a message to their mobile telephones, really it is a modern and curious way of doing it.:rolleyes:

According to ElMundo, to the journalists already they are distributing sandwiches and water bottles ... it waits for them a long and rainy night.

From ElMundo:
 

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The Royal house has informed the press that covers the Royal Family by SMS. They send it one saying that the Princess had been admited by doctors orders.

El mundo has a pic from one of the hournalist cell phones that received the SMS
http://colt.cache.el-mundo.net/elmundo/imagenes/2005/10/30/1130709914_0.jpg

A red carpet is already at the Ruber doors, and staff from the clinic gave hot drinks, water and something to eat.

The article from El Mundo:
http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2005/10/30/espana/1130708517.html
 
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051030/en_afp/spainroyal_051030203726

Spain on royal baby watch as princess is admitted to clinic

MADRID (AFP) - Princess Letizia, the wife of Spanish Crown Prince Felipe de Bourbon, was admitted to a private maternity clinic, the royal palace announced, amid speculation that she might give birth two weeks ahead of term.

Letizia, a 33-year-old former TV news presenter who married the heir to the Spanish throne in May last year, is eight and a half months pregnant, but she was already briefly admitted to the clinic two weeks ago.
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I hope that Letizia and her baby have a safe labor and delivery. I'll say a prayer for both.
 
I'm sorry,but what is the red carpet for?

Because the hight figures of the state will want to visit the baby. Prime-minister, the Madrid´s mayor, the region of Madrid president... Same happened with the Infantas.

But this time is the future heir. So, i belive, that will be more to visit :).
 
Very exciting news! I am on pins and needles awaiting the good news!

I have (sort of) heeded Elsa's previous advice in this thread to make some popcorn and sit back and wait for the blessed news. But instead of popcorn, I am having mocha cake (leftover from a friend's birthday the other night!).

In post #67 made by Lula she attached a picture of the awaiting press. This seems/feels like an awful lot of press so early on, doing the waiting game as all of us here are.

I realize that with Spain's ties to the rest of the world there is more knowledge and awareness of Letizia and Spain's royal family, but the international press attention to this impending birth is really phenomenal. I was just watching a Canadian news channel and along the bottom, there was a ticker with the day's events, national and international, saying that Spain would be getting a new heir shortly and that Spain's Princess Letizia had been admitted into the hospital. I don't recall this happening for any other royal in recent years. Even the British royal births have been reported but after the fact -- not before! With the recent Belgian and Danish births not a single mention was made (you would think something would've been said about the Danish baby at least since he will also be an heir) in the Canadian press. It says something about international renown when a Spanish princess giving birth makes it to the Canadian news. (Their engagement made it to our newspapers, too, so I guess I shouldn't be too surprised.)
 
any news yet?!!!!?!! it's be a few hrs already...can't wait...it's like we're having the baby...and...SOOOOOOOOOOO DARN impatient.!!!!
 
Alexandria, Which newschannel was it on?? CBC newsworld or the CTV one?
It's defintely surprising.. The only articles I remember here in Canada were about Catharina-amalia but nothing about Mary's baby..This is exciting..
 
You're right, Alexandria. Their wedding was one of the events to get more television cover than any other ( near 1.000.000.000 people watched the ceremony on TV). Not to say that the whole Latin America is vibrating with this birth, which is felt as almost theirs, as well.
 
Alexandria I believe that it has to see it with two things fundamentally.

Letizia was a journalist and it seems that to the journalists it likes to count(tell) the history of the journalist turned into Princess. Even a Japanese television had travelled to Spain to do an article on the birth.

And on the other hand I imagine that it has to see with the international weight of every country, Spain has 40 million inhabitants (is bigger than Belgium or Holland).

For what they were saying in the television there were approximately 100 journalists and it is necessary to bear in mind that in Spain they are the 23.50 and that in madrid was raining.
 
Beate said:
Alexandria, Which newschannel was it on?? CBC newsworld or the CTV one?
It's defintely surprising.. The only articles I remember here in Canada were about Catharina-amalia but nothing about Mary's baby..This is exciting..


it's on CBC? u serious?!!! haha...let me check it out man! i'm so excited.....i guess i won't be able to sleep until that liitle naughty baby finally comes out!:D
 
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