Princess of Asturias Awards 2015-2019


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All Blacks performing haka as a thank you ist the greatest thing EVER!!!!!!
 
Here are some extra photos from todays visit to Poreñu in Asturias.

PPE Agency
 
Here are some extra photos from todays visit to Poreñu in Asturias.

PPE Agency

Felipe and Letizia should do more of these sorts of events. Letizia in particular looks happy and, in a few photos, almost relaxed. Felipe still looks tired but he also seems to be having a good time and you can see that he has facial expressions other than 'polite interest.'

This also would have been a perfect day to involve the girls, or at least Leonor. She wouldn't have had to miss school, the day was low key, she's no longer a young child and she is, after all, the Princess of Asturias.
 
Felipe and Letizia should do more of these sorts of events. Letizia in particular looks happy and, in a few photos, almost relaxed. Felipe still looks tired but he also seems to be having a good time and you can see that he has facial expressions other than 'polite interest.'

This also would have been a perfect day to involve the girls, or at least Leonor. She wouldn't have had to miss school, the day was low key, she's no longer a young child and she is, after all, the Princess of Asturias.

Today true, Leonor would not have had to miss school. But the couple have been in Asturius since at least Thursday. Its four hours from Madrid where Leonor goes to school. So while she would not have had school today, she certainly would have Thursday and Friday unless a school holiday.
 
She's 12 next week, I guess when she turns 14 the latest there will be calls to include her in one or the other capacity in her own award events.
Visiting the village is one, or sitting with Sofia sr on the balcony during the ceremony another.
It will be more and more difficult to deal with both sisters equally in public.
 
Today true, Leonor would not have had to miss school. But the couple have been in Asturius since at least Thursday. Its four hours from Madrid where Leonor goes to school. So while she would not have had school today, she certainly would have Thursday and Friday unless a school holiday.

She could have been driven up Friday afternoon/evening for at least part of the event on Saturday and then returned home with her parents. I wasn't suggesting she should have been present the whole three days.
 
Princess of Asturias Awards 2018

General programme for the visit of Their Majesties the King and Queen of Spain on the occasion of the 2018 Princess Of Asturias Awards Ceremony

THURSDAY, 18th OCTOBER

7.30 pm TM The King and Queen will preside over the 27th Princess of Asturias Awards Concert, organized by the Princess of Asturias Foundation in collaboration with the Cajastur Liberbank Foundation.

FRIDAY, 19th OCTOBER

Audiences in the “Salón de Consejos” at the Reconquista Hotel
2018 Medals of Asturias holders.

University of Oviedo 2017 End-of-Studies Prize-winners.

Audiences in the “Salón Covadonga” at the Reconquista Hotel
12.30 pm Audience of the chairs of the Juries, the members of the Princess of Asturias and Foundation Boards of Trustees and the 2018 Princess of Asturias Laureates with TM The King and Queen.
Press pool

6.30 pm: 2018 Princess of Asturias Awards Ceremony.


SATURDAY, 20th OCTOBER

11.30 am Visit to Mual, for the bestowal of the 2018 Exemplary Town of Asturias Award.

General programme for the visit of Their Majesties the King and Queen of Spain on the occasion of the 2018 Princess Of Asturias Awards Ceremony - Communication - The Princess of Asturias Foundation
 
Michael J. Sandel, Alma Guillermoprieto, Sylvia A. Earle and Martin Scorsese to give speeches at the 2018 Princes of Asturias Awards Ceremony

Michael J. Sandel, Alma Guillermoprieto, Sylvia A. Earle and Martin Scorsese to give speeches at the 2018 Princes of Asturias Awards Ceremony - Communication - The Princess of Asturias Foundation

Programme of cultural events featuring the Laureates during the days leading up to the 2018 Princess of Asturias Awards Ceremony

Programme of cultural events featuring the Laureates during the days leading up to the 2018 Princess of Asturias Awards Ceremony - Communication - The Princess of Asturias Foundation
 
I thought Leonor would made her debut at the Awards this year, since she got her order and visited Asturias. Maybe it's to early yet.
 
If they follow Felipe's lead, he visited Asturias for the first time in September 1980, 12 years old. Leonor visited in September 2018, 12 years old.
Felipe did his first speech at the PoA Awards one year later, in October 1981, 13 years old, therefore we can possibly expect Leonor doing her first speech next year, still 13 but almost 14 years old.

We'll see how they handle the situation with Sofia jr., if I remember correctly, Felipe's sisters were not present at either event.

Sofia jr. came with her parents and sister to Asturias, we'll see if she joins them as well at the first PoA awards event. She'll possibly sit with her grandmother on the balcony and not join her family at the podium.
 
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I'm also surprised that Leonor hasn't attended the awards yet. Perhaps next year. It would be a great experience for her especially since she has already visited Asturias and received the royal order.
 
General programme for the visit of Their Majesties the King and Queen of Spain on the occasion of the 2018 Princess Of Asturias Awards Ceremony

Updated

THURSDAY, 18th OCTOBER

5:00pm Her Majesty the Queen will attend Martin Scorsese's meeting with young filmmakers, which is part of the "Scorsese Factory" programme in the old La Vega Arms Factory in Oviedo.

5:30pm His Majesty the King will hold an audience with the Foundation's board for Biosanitary Research and Innovation in the Principality of Asturias (FINBA) in the "Salon de Consejos" in the Reconquista Hotel, Oviedo.
 
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