Infanta Cristina and Family, Current Events Part 3: August - December 2005

[Lucidu]

Juan Valentin in Barcelone on 13 June
from newscom

 

[iowabelle]

my guess is that they did not want to get dressed to go to school and rather than forcing them she let them descide and they look a bit embarresed in the pictures. Tough lesson about taking responsibility for your own actions.

Perhaps the boys called Michael Jackson for fashion advice.

 

[Harry's polo shirt]

HOW CUTE!! http://www.theroyalforums.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=200899

is he biting his fingernails?: http://www.theroyalforums.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=200893

 

[LaChicaMadrilena]

my guess is that they did not want to get dressed to go to school and rather than forcing them she let them descide and they look a bit embarresed in the pictures. Tough lesson about taking responsibility for your own actions.

Or they just woke up to late and didn't have enough time to dress up?

 

[isabella_]

Or they just woke up to late and didn't have enough time to dress up?

Hahahah, that's what I was thinking. Because I've never heard about "Pyjama Day" in Spanish Schools (at least not in my school days).

 

[Alexandria]

Hahahah, that's what I was thinking. Because I've never heard about "Pyjama Day" in Spanish Schools (at least not in my school days).

Pyjama Days happen here are common (at least in Ontario schools). My friend is a teacher at an elementary school and they have it once a year, sort of like a sports day. They also have funny hats day or Green (or another colour) day, where they show up wearing something of that colour. Even the teachers participate. (My friend has an embarassing story of how one day it was pyjama day at her school and she drove to school in her flannel pyjamas with flying sheep and fuzzy slippers and was worried that something would happen to her car while she was driving and that she might have to get out on the side of the road in her pyjamas! She could imagine the looks she would get! Thankfully nothing happened!)

 

[isabella_]

Pyjama Days happen here are common (at least in Ontario schools). My friend is a teacher at an elementary school and they have it once a year, sort of like a sports day. They also have funny hats day or Green (or another colour) day, where they show up wearing something of that colour. Even the teachers participate. (My friend has an embarassing story of how one day it was pyjama day at her school and she drove to school in her flannel pyjamas with flying sheep and fuzzy slippers and was worried that something would happen to her car while she was driving and that she might have to get out on the side of the road in her pyjamas! She could imagine the looks she would get! Thankfully nothing happened!)

Hahah, your friend's story is so funny!
And thanks a lot for the clarification. I've never heard that before.

 

[Emily]

Our children have pajama day as part of a learning unit about night time, although it never starts on the first day of school! Is this Miguel's first day at "elementary" school? I wonder if the teacher asked them to wear pajamas on this first day in order to do some fun lesson in the classroom that might help them feel more at ease in their new surroundings? Elementary school teachers in our area are, generally, wonderful in their creativity with, and sensitivity to, children that age. I highly doubt Cristina would otherwise let him go to school in PJ's even if he did choose his clothes!

 

[lula]

Monday 3

The Dukes of Palm preside in Barcelona at the commemoration of the Day of the Police, on the occasion of the festivity of the Santos Ángeles Custodios.

 

[Lucidu]

Juan Valentin Urdangarin celebrated his birthday with his two brothers and
his parents at his grandparents house in Barcelona. From ImagineScandinavia:

 

[Florence]

Wow, those three little boys are really cute

http://www.imagine.photositepro.com/stream.php/PreView/204165/?2005-10-03 11:15:07

 

[lula]

http://actualidad.terra.es/nacional/articulo/infanta_entrega_cachorro_policia_perdio_522226.htm

Infanta delivers puppy to the policeman who lost dog in explosion

The Infanta dona Cristina did delivery today of a puppy of dog farmer to Manuel Rojas, the canine policeman - guide who lost 'Pretto', his dog trained to smell explosives that he died in the attempt perpetrated in the Italian Institute of Culture of Barcelona last June 12.
The infanta and her husband, Iñaki Urdangarín, presided today in the Fórum of Barcelona at the celebration of the Day of the Police and, at their arrival to the enclosure, inspected to the different units and specialities of the Police National Body (CNP).
On having come to the group of the specialists in deactivation of explosives - the TEDAX-NBQ-the Dukes of Palm greeted the agent Manuel Rojas, that it turned out to be wounded on having exploited the coffee pot - bomb that policeman killed to his dog and that today also was distinguished by the order of the police merit.
After reporting a few instants with him, the Infanta Cristina delivered to the agent a puppy of dog, of race ' farmer retriever ', of black and short hair, of five months of age and something shy, apparently, because it did not answer to the pops of fingers that him there dedicated the mayor of Barcelona, Joan Clos, inciting him to play.
For express desire of the Infanta Cristina, Manuel Rojas's new dog he is called "A" 'Gringo' in memory of an already deceased dog that the Infanta had and to whom she had a special fondness.

In her later speech before the controls and policemen who took part in the celebration of the Day of the Police, the Infanta Cristina highlighted that in Catalonia ' always they have been forged big professionals of this Body '.
Also she transmitted them, ' in name of all the Spanish, the testimony of deep fondness, esteem and gratitude that our society feels towards the self-sacrificing effort, the delivery and the spirit of overcoming with which all the members of the Police National Body you realize your task '.

 

[Lucidu]

Juan Valentin Urdangarin celebrated his birthday with his two brothers and
his parents at his grandparents house in Barcelona.
From newscom

 

[rchainho]

she looks lovely in that outfit.

 

[lula]

From terra:

 

[meac]

from casa real

 

[liv]

Yes,congratulations!And 8 years later they have 4 wonderful cute children and they seem to be so much in love like on the first day.

 

[lula]

Miércoles, 5 de octubre de 2005

[font=Verdana,Arial]INAUGURACIÓN DE LA OCTAVA EDICIÓN DEL CERTAMEN "SONIMAGFOTO"
Barcelona[/font]

On Wednesday, the 5th of October, 2005

INAUGURATION OF THE EIGHTH EDITION OF THE CONTEST "SONIMAGFOTO" Barcelona

 

[isabella_]

Wow! Infanta Cristina looks so young in the pics from Juan's birthday! And the ones with the dogs are so cute; Gringo is a great name for a dog.

By the way, happy anniversary for Cristina and Iñaki! I wonder if they will go out tonight as they have done in past anniversaries celebrations or if they will stay at home with the kids... because this is their first anniversary having little Irene in the family!

 

[Lucidu]

Happy anniversary to Cristina and Inaki

 

[meac]

happy wedding anniversary8 year wow ! and they are so in Love.

 

[LaChicaMadrilena]

Happy anniversary,
dear Christina and Iñaki!!!​

 

[lula]

http://www.europapress.es/europa2003/noticia.aspx?cod=20051005133541&tabID=1&ch=66

The Dukes of Palm inaugurate Sonimag's eighth edition, which it expects to attract 120.000 visitors

BARCELONA, 5 Oct. (EUROPE PRESS)-

The Dukes of Palm inaugurated this morning Sonimag's eighth edition, the International Lounge of the Photography and the Image, which will be able to be visited in Montjuïc de Fira's enclosure of Barcelona until Sunday and which it expects to attract for approximately 120.000 visitors, 20.000 of which will be professional.
The Infanta Cristina and Iñaki Urdangarín there crossed the exhibitors of the principal marks accompanied by the mayor of Barcelona, Joan Clos, the delegate of the Government in Catalonia, Joan Rangel, the president of the Chamber of Trade of Barcelona, Miquel Valls, and the president of the lounge, Enric Galve.
During the tour, the Dukes were given at least two digital cameras of last generation and products of 'merchandising', as passbooks, delicacies and pens, for their children.
The exhibitors of Sony and of Canon. The representative of the latter assured that " this one I will guard and I will teach her to my grandsons ".
The Dukes were protagonists of the majority of the photos who took in the lounge, many of which realized with the same machines that were exposed, and could verify the quality and the rapidity of the last digital printers.
One of the most curious anecdotes took place in the exhibitor of Agfa, where the person in charge offered to make come to the Dukes a beach chanclas of the number adapted with photographies stamped on the soles. Likewise, they proved to be interested parties in the technology to install a 'webcam' in the room of game of their children to be able to receive the images in the mobile telephones.
(...)

pHOTOS FROM TERRA:

 

[lula]

http://www.europapress.es/europa2003/noticia.aspx?cod=20051005142510&tabID=1&ch=66

The Infanta Cristina will realize an official visit to the locality of The Villages (Jaen)

JAEN, 5 Oct. (EUROPE PRESS)-

The Infanta Dona Cristina will realize an official visit to the locality jiennense of The Villages next October 17 to inaugurate an institute and the amplification of a cooperative society.
In declarations to Europa Press, the mayor of The Villages, Carmen Anguita, indicated that this foreseen that on 11.00 hours of the 17th, the Infanta Dona Cristina should realize a visit to the Town hall The Tambourine to move later to the facilities of the institute of Secondary Education and to inaugurate it.
With posteriority, on 12.15 hours, they will come to the cooperative society of oil San Isidro, in that they will inaugurate the amplification of its headquarters, as Daily Jaen improved.
This way, Anguita indicated that the neighbors of the locality are " satisfied and moved " before the fact.
This way, Anguita indicated that the neighbors of the locality are " satisfied and moved " before the fact. Besides, the mayor highlighted that the Infanta Dona Cristina has sent a photography dedicated to the neighbors that the Council has copied and distributed between the inhabitants on the occasion of the parties of the locality, which they conclude next Sunday.

 

[pdas1201]

The Dukes of Palm inaugurate Sonimag's eighth edition, which it expects to attract 120.000 visitors

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www.colourpress.com

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[carlota]

quite unusual, cristina took her children to swimming classes and then took pablo and miguel in their pijamas to save time so that they could go straight to bed...

many people were surprised because of that.

the whole article (from diezminutos), that doesn't say much more than what i previously wrote:

Los hijos de Cristina, en pijama por la calle La Infanta acudió a recoger a sus hijos a sus actividades extraescolares. Pablo y Miguel ya salieron en pijama, listos para irse a la cama.

Los niños a la salida de la clase.

La infanta Cristina es una mamá de hoy.

La duquesa de Palma se ha reincorporado a su puesto en la Fundación La Caixa, como les informamos en la página siguiente, trabajo que compagina con el cuidado de sus cuatro hijos.

La hija de los Reyes, que reside en Barcelona, recogió a sus chicos después de que éstos realizasen sus actividades extraescolares.

El pasado 29 de septiembre, coincidiendo con el sexto cumpleaños de Juan, Cristina fue a esperar a su hijo mayor a la salida de sus clases de tenis.




Cristina cruza la calle con sus dos hijos pequeños de la mano.
Fue a recoger a los niños a un club de natación

El niño salió del club con un regalo entre las manos: un coche de Fórmula 1, réplica del automóvil de Fernando Alonso.

Después, los dos acudieron a un club de natación para recoger a Pablo y a Miguel.

Los dos pequeños abandonaron el lugar en pijama, listos para meterse en la cama nada más llegar a casa.

 

[rchainho]

great photos of colourpress. Thanks.

 

[Elsa M.]

http://www.lavanguardia.es/web/20051009/51194928317.html

Doña Cristina, who returned to work at the beginning of September, is not very pleased with the photos that have been published in some magazines, showing her children Pablo and Miguel dressed in pyjamas, when leaving the swimming classes. The monitors of the swimming pool usually dress the children in their pyjamas, when they leave the pool, so that they can go straight to the bed, although some mothers prefer to change their clothes, when they pick them at the classes. However, in the life of every mother, there’s always a day when you being in a hurry coincides with the children being in the sulks and, when that moment arrives, the peace is chosen before the aesthetic considerations. The hazard is if in that precise day, you’re made a photo…

 

[Vicomtesse]

http://www.lavanguardia.es/web/20051009/51194928317.html

Doña Cristina, who returned to work at the beginning of September, is not very pleased with the photos that have been published in some magazines, showing her children Pablo and Miguel dressed in pyjamas, when leaving the swimming classes. The monitors of the swimming pool usually dress the children in their pyjamas, when they leave the pool, so that they can go straight to the bed, although some mothers prefer to change their clothes, when they pick them at the classes. However, in the life of every mother, there’s always a day when you being in a hurry coincides with the children being in the sulks and, when that moment arrives, the peace is chosen before the aesthetic considerations. The hazard is if in that precise day, you’re made a photo…

Really! If Cristina didn't want her kids to be pictured in their pyjamas after their swimming classes then she should've PUT THEM IN STREET CLOTHES.
She can't complain about this.
It was her OWN doing.

 

[isabella_]

Really! If Cristina didn't want her kids to be pictured in their pyjamas after their swimming classes then she should've PUT THEM IN STREET CLOTHES.
She can't complain about this.
It was her OWN doing.

I think it's comprehensible that she is a bit disgusting with all this.
I believe that the problem isn't the fact that the kids were photographed, the problem is that everyone have talked about this in Spain as if it's were a eccentricity or something really important. Come on! They are on every Spanish magazine's covers this week!