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Nine months at the edge of the sea
The passion for the sea of the Royal Family is allowing to see the Infanta Leonor with great more frequency of what has seen her for her first months of life. Yesterday, precisely, the small one was fulfilling nine and she accompanied her grandmother, the Queen, and to her mother, the Princess of Asturias, to contemplating from the cover of the "Fortuna"" the first day of the most important ditch of candle of the Mediterranean, the Cup of the King, who is disputed in the bay of Palm until the next Sunday.
With a "gorrito" white and dressed in a seaworthy dress of red and white stripes, which was allowing to see the "michelines" of her little legs, the girl was posing smilingly in arms of her mother and her grandmother before the photographers' tens that from their small launches were surrounding the "Fortuna"". Foreign to the commotion that her presence provokes, the Infanta was attending entertained to the requests of Dona Sofía and Dona Letizia, who were encouraging her to greet her father, the Prince of Asturias, who passed close to the ship on board of the sailboat "CAM". It was in this precise moment when the Princess took in arms her daughter and raised it in order that she saw Don Felipe. The yesterday image was practically the same one that could be contemplated only ten days ago, during the ditch Breitling - that was the baptism of sea of the Infanta-, but it was completely new in the history of the Cup of the King, which this year celebrates its 25 years.
Throughout all this time, this competition has been a reflex of the changes lived by the Royal Family and that of yesterday was the first occasion in which, while Don Juan Carlos and Don Felipe were haggling, the Queen, the Princess and the Infanta were encouraging them from the "Fortuna"", that is to say, three generations of the Dynasty. To the Prince, the presence of his daughter brought luck, since in the yesterday test his sailboat came the first one from those of its category.
If some impression can be extracted of the Infanta to her nine months of age, it is that she is a nice and curious girl, that does not scare before the strangers' presence and who observes attentivly all that happens around it. Of that detail does not get lost there deals directly her mother, who indicates her any thing that could call the attention of the small one.
Dona Sofía, very protective
While, Dona Sofía, since always, was proving to be protective with her daughter-in-law and, specially, with her granddaughter, which she was holding affectionatly to avoid a fall provoked by the movement of the ship, though the "Fortuna"" is very stable. And it is that, though in the bay of Palm the sea is in the habit of being calmed, when there center hundreds of sailboats, yachts and motorboats in a space as small as it is the line of exit of the ditch, the crafts provoke a great surge with the one that is easy to fall or to feel sick.
Even in full sea the heat was stifling and scarcely it was blowing of wind to stimulate to the sailboats. The exit of the first test was late and the second test was suspended by the fall of the wind. Dona Sofía was protected from the strong Sun by a shirt of stripes and a few long trousers; Dona Letizia chose for a few white shorts, a pole of the same color and a visor in which it was possible to read the word "Relax", precisely what almost all the vacationers search in this island.
Yesterday also there was occasion to see the King and the Prince in firm land, since both came together, in a vehicle led by Don Felipe, to the Royal Nautical Club of Palm, in which pantalanes were stingy the "Bribón" and the "CAM". After greeting the sponsors of the ditch and the persons in charge of the club, father and son embarked in their respective sailboats and were done to the sea.
Already in the evening, the Kings returned to the Nautical one to inaugurate a photographic exhibition on 25 years of the Cup of the King and, later, they returned to Marivent's Palace, where Don Juan Carlos received the prime minister to support the first summer office. On having finished the meeting, the Kings offered a dinner to Zapatero and his wife, who today travel to Lanzarote to initiate his vacations in The Mareta.
From wireimage