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The Princes travelled last Saturday to Asturias, where they have foreseen to pass a few days of rest. After being present, in Madrid, at the funeral of State for 17 military men expired in Afghanistan, don Felipe and dona Letizia travelled in car up to Sardeu, Ribadesella's pedanía where one finds the house in which there lives Menchu Álvarez of the Valley and one of the first places on which the Prince accompanied dona Letizia after her engagement. The arrival of the Princes to the Asturian region did not slip by, especially because the whole neighborhood was hanging for several weeks, but yesterday in the morning the same neighbors who saw them to come to house of the mother grandmother of dona Letizia saw them to go out again in thair car and with all the baggage.
For the Princess and also for Menchu Álvarez of the Valley and the neighbors of the zone it turns out very difficult to preserve the environment of the zone that dona Letizia was living in her spinster's veraneos, in order that now she could enjoy it together with the Prince. The house, placed in a privileged place, in a high place on Ribadesella's bay, cannot be permanently surrounded with safety workforce that necessarily impede the step of the viandantes, be curious or habitual of the zone. The Princes or their relatives cannot also go out to walk along the meadows that surround the house without being in view of the whole world. So that, though it is not foreseen that don Felipe and dona Letizia have a stable residence in the Principality that gives name to their title, yes it seems to be clear that they have to look for some alternative place to Menchu Álvarez's cozy house for when the Princes are going to Asturias to pass a few days.
Though they spend the final straight line of their vacations in Asturian lands, to official effects their summer residence is Marivent's palace, in Majorca, where don Felipe and dona Letizia will begin and finish their summer rest. The rivalry between the Asturian coast and the balear for having the summer sole right of don Felipe and dona Letizia is called to be the argument of every summer until one finds an equitable formula that neither favors some, do not even offend others. A difficult ballot, God lives, and more this year, in enclosed which the third element of discord has got, that of the destination not known for these díez days in those that don Felipe and dona Letizia eliminated of the scene.
The case is that the decision of the Prince not to take part this year in the ditches of the Glass of the King in order to be any more time with dona Letizia pregnancy of six months and a half in these moments, and the rumors from which these days would happen in Asturias motivated such polemic in Majorca that the Princes chose to delay thir step along the natal land of dona Letizia.
