Summer Holidays in Mallorca: 2005

[carlota]

i also think so lula. letizia must be missing her family as she hasnt been there in a long time and she is very close to her granma and was to her late grandfather. maybe she prefers to be with her as his passing is quite recent.

nice pics, elsa, thanks for posting! was anyone from the family (any adults) with the kids appart from the nannies?

[lula]

Originally Posted by carlota

i also think so lula. letizia must be missing her family as she hasnt been there in a long time and she is very close to her granma and was to her late grandfather. maybe she prefers to be with her as his passing is quite recent.

nice pics, elsa, thanks for posting! was anyone from the family (any adults) with the kids appart from the nannies?

In the photos Carlota does not appear anybody. Normally the Royal Family approaches in the Fortuna Cabrera, which is a natural reserve and where almost nobody can accede, there they bath in the sea and others, it is a more intimate place. For motives obvious to go to a normal beach would be an authentic chaos ... for what one sees in the images the babysitters would bring the children over to some beach near to the palace in order that they were bathing and playing a bit. The children without their parents me imagine that they pass very unnoticed and there is no problem.

As for Letizia, it is totally logical that she wants to be with her grandmother and in her house (already I it have said several times, not only her grandmother lives there, has more family, she lived there everything through her infancy,she has friends ...). In a place where the climate is fresher and they have major intimacy.
Last summer they were there not even one week and criticized them for it, and this year will pass the same thing. And I do not understand it, it is the most normal of the world that also they reserve a few days in order that she enjoys her family and more this year after the death of her grandfather and with the pregnancy her. Some journalist will not be late large mouths in saying that Letizia gives the orders on the Prince and other bilges.

[marezdote]

Originally Posted by lula

And I do not understand it, it is the most normal of the world that also they reserve a few days in order that she enjoys her family and more this year after the death of her grandfather and with the pregnancy her.

ITA lula. I remember stories saying people were worried Felipe and Letizia were going to stay the entire month in Asturias and not Mallorca anymore. In my opinion they should stay wherever they want. I don't see what the big deal is. It is their vacation after all. Also, I think it is great that the couple doesn't just spend time with the royal family but makes time for Letizia's as well.

[lula]

Originally Posted by marezdote

ITA lula. I remember stories saying people were worried Felipe and Letizia were going to stay the entire month in Asturias and not Mallorca anymore. In my opinion they should stay wherever they want. I don't see what the big deal is. It is their vacation after all. Also, I think it is great that the couple doesn't just spend time with the royal family but makes time for Letizia's as well.

Yes, but always there are people who for criticizing any thing that Letizia does, criticizes her until she wants to pass time with her family. Not because so normal things are extracted of hinge. Because of it also their trips of weekend to Asturias have been criticized. Some that wicked other one was saying that she loved more a few grandparents that different, when the parents of Paloma spent great winter part in Madrid and there she could see them often. Whereas her another grandfather was in Asturias dying and probably she could not go everything what wanted, and some journalists who knew it continued criticizing her for these trips.

[GrandDuchess]

Indeed it seems very natural that they go and spend some holiday time with her family as well, considering that in everyday life the Prince and Princess have very busy lives representing the country and meet the rest of the Royal Family naturally in their work. The media seems very stupid if they give them critique for this, what could be more natural than to keep close contact with both sides of the family?...

[fromEU]

What's all this discussion about Letizia wearing the same clothes. Are the pictures we have seen so far not all from the same day and even from the same time of the day? 10-15 minutes in all?

[isabella_]

Elsa thanks so much for the pics you posted. Those are great! :)

And here some maybe-never-seen pics from Cover:

[planetcher]

Originally Posted by marezdote

ITA lula. I remember stories saying people were worried Felipe and Letizia were going to stay the entire month in Asturias and not Mallorca anymore. In my opinion they should stay wherever they want. I don't see what the big deal is. It is their vacation after all. Also, I think it is great that the couple doesn't just spend time with the royal family but makes time for Letizia's as well.

It's natural that Letizia would spend part of her summer now in Asturias. She spent all of her summers there growing up. She's Asturian and will always be. These Penafiel-like journalists are too immature. Do they expect her to stop spending her summers there now that she's a princess and should only spend it in Mallorca? Some people really......

[planetcher]

Originally Posted by Elsa M.

Cristina and Iñaki's children enjoyed yesterday a beach day along with Letizia's niece Carla Vigo (daughter of her sister Erika). The Children played in the water, under the attention of 2 nanies.
Photos from Imaginescandinavia:

Little Carla is so cute with that curly hair. It's so nice that Auntie Letizia brought her to Mallorca to enjoy the beach along with the Urdangarins. She seems to really adore her. I have a feeling Penafiel will have a take on that on his next column. Something to the effect of why-is-Carla-spending-summer-in-Mallorca-with-the Borbons? Wanna bet? That man is the most despicable person I've ever heard of.

[camila]

I have a question when Infanta elena is going to arrive. I love that family:)

[lula]

http://www.ultimahora.es/discreto.dba?-1+12+0

Tiny bath
Two of the children of the dukes of Palm amuse themselves in the beach and yesterday they represented acumpleños of Mafalda, daughter of Rosario Nadal In one day in which practically it seems that nothing happens, suddenly it happens. I say it for the day before yesterday, silly day as for news of the Royal House. The King passed the morning giving hearings in l'Almudaina, while, when everything seemed to be to point in order that the Fortuna was done to the sea, the royal yacht remained in port and us composed and without photographies.
Neither as for Porreres, were innovations. The Princes of Preslav did not go to the Tuesday street market, but they continued preparing the house to enjoy of the summer or because ... do they wait for someone? Because, tiny tute they are given from Monday!

Infantile protagonists

Well, so when to point we were to declare the catastrophic day, - journalistically speaking, clearly-, since it seemed that it was not going to happen at all in what was remaining in the evening, it happened: two of four children of the dukes of Palm, Paul Nicolás and Michael, the second one and the third one, and, there seemed us to be to, the daughter of Erika, sister of the princess of Asturias, accompanied of their nurses - two you relate apparently, that not only they dress equally but also they put on an equal swimsuit - and four escorts, they went away to the beach, to bathing between the people. Y. .. helos there! Nice images, already be those of the water, bathing, as those of the sand, drying off and playing; already be those of garments. None of the three, certainly, always monitored over the babysitters, they are afraid to the sea. Everything opposite. The major one at all as a fish and other two they they do not go to the rear.
And yesterday, when also it seemed that it was not going to happen at all, between other things because the Kings moved to The Azores invited by the president of Portuguese Government, to midday the lads of the dukes of Palm, on board of a monovolume in which also the nurses were travelling, escorted by another car, they moved to house of Rosario and Kiryl, in Porreres, to celebrate the birthday of the first-born one, Mafalda, and in the evening, there added to the party the princes of Asturias, don Philip and dona Letizia - who prompt will celebrate those of their descent-, those who apparently will leave the island next Friday. So at all, Mafalda, a lot of years!

[lula]

http://www.diariodemallorca.es/

The Prince says not to the Glass

Don Felipe gives up taking part in the ditch to remain more time together with dona Letizia, with whom he will travel to Asturias the second week of August

Not on board of the CAM of the Olympic champions Fernando León and Kiko Sanchez Moon, the sailboat in which he has competed during the last three years, not neither in the new Aifos of the Naval Commission of Ditches of the Navy. The prince Felipe has taken the firm decision not to take part in the vigésimo fourth edition of the Glass of the King of candle, which ditches begin on Monday and they will extend until Sunday, the 7th of August.
The news advanced by the diary ABC, was confirmed yesterday in all his ends by official sources, though these denied that the surprising decision of don Felipe had anything that to see with a possible desire of the Princes to move soon to dona Letizia's familiar house in Asturias to spend there the rest of the summer vacations, bearing in mind that is a community with a softer summer great and agreeable climate for a pregnant woman that the humid and warm Majorca. The desire to pass more time close to dona Letizia and the outpost been of gestation of the Princess they are both principal motives that have taken don Felipe.
To taking the decision, it could have known this diary, a decision that he separates, before being a father next November, of a competition of the one that not only is one of his more veteran rival ones, but also his principal public image so much to national level as internationally, sharing protagonism with don Juan Carlos. " We feel it very much, for the ditch always it is better that the Prince informs, but all the members of the Royal Family have thair life and it is necessary to respect her ", demonstrated yesterday in the matter Enrique Puig, member of the committee of honor of the ditch, vice-president of the organizing committee, the first sponsor of the test(proof) and counselor of Antonio Puig Perfumes. Official sources underlined again that the summer residence of the Princes is A Palm and only Palm and that nothing changes the decision of don Philip in the matter, so into the island, together with dona Letizia and the rest of the Royal Family he is very to taste and happily. In the same way, the initiative of the Asturian Government to offer a summer summer residence to the Princes, option that fought last year and for that even concrete offers existed, is completely stagnant. This diary could have confirmed that don Philip and dona Letizia will pass a few days in Asturias, though not of imminent form. They were invited by the Foundation Prince of Asturias to the concert that Daniel Barenboin will offer next Sunday in the Audience of Oviedo, but they declined this invitation. Nevertheless, they are waited the second week of August in the familiar house of the grandmother of the princess, Menchu Álvarez of the Valley, placed in Sardéu's locality, in Ribadesella's municipality, place of meeting of dona Letizia's family in summer. Last year the Princes already were in Menchu Álvarez's house of the Valley in summer. They were useful these days of rest to give long walks along the coast and to programme some excursion for los Picos de Europa. Those who know dona Letizia say that she is very happy in her natal land, which she is upset with more is the continuous journalistic expectation that her presence wakes up since she married with the Prince. As innovation, this year dona Letizia has moved to Majorca with her niece Carla, daughter of her minor sister Erika and of the sculptor Antonio Vigo.
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[lula]

http://www.lavanguardia.es/web/20050...189951038.html

The Prince leaves the candle for love

Nothing is forever and probably when they change the circumstances the Prince will return to the nautical competition. His dedication to the ditches was not a way of amusing himself in summer (it is not necessary to forget that don Felipe formed a part of the team of candle in the Games of Barcelona ' 92), but this year, paraphrasing Jordi Pujol, he does not touch candle. The prince of Asturias will not take part in the close edition of the Glass of the King - trophy Agua Brava like he comes doing for twenty years, with the scanty exceptions of his displacements to the captures of possession in Latin America. The reason is in his desire to spend his period of vacations together with the princess Letizia, on the verge of expiring her sixth month of pregnancy. The Prince moves back for love. The candle demands dedication and time, not only the one that passes in the sea, but also the one that one is late in recovering after the nautical beating and the one that becomes exhausted in the dinners and exits with the companions of crew. Last week, don Felipe, on board of the CAM (sailboat that alternates with the Aifos), gained the trophy Breitling and this clasp of gold the season of ditches met for closed.
For the Prince, married and to the wait of his first son, his participation in the Glass of the King is not a prior question, though his decision not only will not satisfy all, but probably he will bother any, but like that it is the life. The Prince goes twenty years taking part in the Glass of the King and in different ditches and it is difficult to break the traditions when these look like obligations, but at some time it has to be. The question is that the Glass of the King remains without one of its assets and Majorca, which it had breathed calm after the declaration of beginning of don Felipe assuring that the island would continue being his place of rest, it have that digerir that any other place of Spain can steal the plane from him, though it is of occasional form. Marivent continues being the port of tie of the princes of Asturias, but it will not be their only destiny.
It does not seem that the Princes are going to change Majorca into Asturias, though the couple will travel to the principality in some summer moment, but only for a few days habida counts of that their stay in the house that Menchu Álvarez del Valle, grandmother of dona Letizia, possesses in Sardeu's council supposes a safety unfolding that can manage to alter the life of the calm Asturian enclave. It would not be of surprising that don Felipe and dona Letizia were devoting themselves this summer to the interior life with few public appearances. At the moment, tomorrow on Friday, the Princes will be in Peralada (Girona) to be present in the night at the lyric show in which they will act Maria Guleghina, Jaime Aragall and Joan Pons.
The great mystery is now in seeing if, in spite of everything, don Felipe will be the next week in Palm following the nautical competition as one more spectator, the only way of which some digieran his absence.

[lula]

And a last commentary on this topic.
The Infanta Elena only spends a part of her vacations in Palma, always she does a trip abroad with her family.

The Urdangarín-Borbón pass more time in Palm. But in a magazine a few photos appear of them in the Basque Country with Iñaki's family. If they do not pass more time with them is for a safety problem, their trips to the Basque Country have to be limited and because of it they must be the parents of him those who travel to Barcelona where they have more children.

The single Prince also was escaping of Majorca a few days, and nothing was passing.
Now they take it as a great tragedy. To that they do not make sense?

[Lisele]

Originally Posted by lula

http://www.diariodemallorca.es/

The Royal Family spends a sea day on board of the yacht 'Fortune'

With the exception of the King, which he remained the whole morning and until two o'clock in the afternoon being employed at his office, the Royal Family took advantage of the yesterday day to go out to navigate on board of the yacht Fortune. Little before twelve o'clock they approached up to the facilities of Portopí's naval military base, habitual tie of the royal yacht, the infanta Cristina and her three major children, Juan Valentín, Pablo and Miguel, whom it was possible to see playing in the bridge of control of the craft before this one was giving up straps. In another car, dona Sofía made it small later. And more discreetly, removed from the lenses of the photographers, also there rose on board the prince Felipe and dona Letizia, who did not want to get lost the sea day in spite of being embarrassed of five months.

She has minor children... from another source maybe?!?!?!?!

[lula]

Originally Posted by Lisele

She has minor children... from another source maybe?!?!?!?!

The menor is Irene who only is 2 months old.

[Ennyllorac]

Originally Posted by Lisele

She has minor children... from another source maybe?!?!?!?!

I think the term major child and minor is from a direct translation "mayor" in Spanish translated means older or oldest. "Menor" should translated to younger or youngest.

[Elsa M.]

Originally Posted by lula

And yesterday, when also it seemed that it was not going to happen at all, [...] the lads of the dukes of Palm, on board of a monovolume in which also the nurses were travelling, escorted by another car, they moved to house of Rosario and Kiryl, in Porreres, to celebrate the birthday of the first-born one, Mafalda, and in the evening, there added to the party the princes of Asturias, don Philip and dona Letizia

Thanks for all these articles, Lula! I hope we can see some photos of them arriving at Mafalda's birthday party...

[Elsa M.]

http://www.diezminutos.wanadoo.es/re...es/2865_1.html

Like every year, the sea and the regattas have reunited the Royal Family in Mallorca. This summer the Princess, who is very handsome in her fifth month of pregnancy, was expected with much anxiety and she monopolized all the glances, while watching the victory of her husband.

The Princes of Asturias landed together in Mallorca a day after they went to the funeral by the victims of the fire of Guadalajara. There they met the Kings and the Dukes of Palma. Don Felipe had arrived previously, the previous Thursday, to compete in the regattas, but he immediately went back to attend the funerals in Guadalajara. On the following day Letizia arrived, raising a great expectancy. The princess, who is in her fifth month of pregnancy, wanted to remain on the background, but she could not avoid to be the centre of all the glances and the anxious photos, portraying her fifth month of pregnancy.


The Kings (along with the sister of Doña Sofia, princess Irene of Greece) had "officially" inaugurated the Mallorcan summer on July 20th. After their arrival, they were received by the authorities of the island: Jaume Matas, president of the Balearic government, and Catalina Cirer, the mayor of Palma, among other personalities. In his appearance before the press, Don Juan Carlos assured that they were missing these vacations, and already commented that the pregnancy of Letizia runs well. TM will remain in the island, at their usual residence, the Palace of Marivent, until September, in spite of some official trips that will take place in the meanwhile. Besides, the King will receive, next August 1st, the president of the Government, Jose Luis Zapatero.

The eleventh edition of the Breitling-Illes Balears regattas inaugurated the season of candle in Mallorca. The King, prince Felipe and the Duke of Palma competed this year. While they competed in the Bay of Palma, the Infanta, next to her children, and the Queen followed the competition on board of the yacht Fortuna, property of the Royal Family. They sailed until La Cabrera, an island to which it is only possible to accede with a special permission. But the most expected was Letizia, who was not seen until Saturday night. This is the second summer she spends in the island, although this one is the most special, without any doubt. Her first public appearance was the supper offered by the directors of the regattas to participants and sponsors. The scene was the military castle of San Carlos, in Palma. Also the Kings and the Dukes of Palma attended the party, although Iñaki arrived first and the Infanta only later.

In the warm afternoon of Sunday, Letizia caused a great commotion in Puerto Portals, as she arrived for the prize-giving ceremony. The Prince won the competition on class IMS, and received the gold and silver cup, from the hands of his father, Don Juan Carlos. He was the sixth, but in another class, TP 52, in which the prince had another boat, the "Aifós". After receiving the congratulation from the King, Don Felipe showed his trophy to his mother and wife. Letizia and Doña Sofía were together all day long and smilingly strolled by the sea. The King also awarded his son-in-law Iñaki Urdangarín, who finished the competition on the second position of the class IMS.

The Duke of Palma had had very special spectators, as his wife, children and mother-in-law followed him close by, on board of the boat "Azur". Except for little Irene, the three children of the Duke of Palma did not stop to encourage their father. After the race, the eldest one, Juan, ran towards his daddy, who affectionately took him in his arms. The most outstanding absence was the one of the Dukes of Lugo and their children, Froilán and Victoria. However Harald of Norway, that could not compete for his delicate state of health, also followed thecompetions.



Photos from DiezMinutos:
1. Sofia, Cristina and the children following the regattas;
2. Maria Zurita (daughter of Infanta Margarita and the Duke of Soria).

[rchainho]

more pics from deadline.