May, non-stop family events for the King and Queen: from Leonor’s Graduation to Sofia’s Confirmation

May is a month of events. This is so. This weekend, we saw the princess of asturias, full and happy, at her Graduation in Wales. And this Thursday the 25th, a new event for the kings Philip VI, Joy and their daughters. The Confirmation of the infanta sofia. Top photo credit: Casa Real.

Leonor showed in the photos her International Baccalaureate diploma. She was wearing the highly commented pendant with the word love in Arabic. She was radiant, like on a cloud. Great Graduation Day on the UWC Atlantic campus in Wales, which left us with an unprecedented and unexpected selfie of the Kings with their daughters. A selfie that is, by far, the most familiar and spontaneous image we have of them. But very far. They were so happy that they forgot their official gestures and their poses at institutional acts. They took a Graduation selfie with their daughters like so many parents and they smiled super proud like so many parents. Until now we have never seen that emotion so transparent in them, without filters. It is a photo like that of so many parents. After this emotional rush, a second is coming. Confirmation of the infant. It is what has May and events.

Sofia follows in Leonor’s footsteps. He will complete 4th year of ESO at the Santa María de los Rosales school, in Aravaca (Madrid), and next August, the 29th, he will begin his International Baccalaureate studies at the UWC Atlantic College in Wales, of the United World Colleges network. . Like her sister, Sofia also makes the confirmation. She will take this sacrament in the Asunción de Nuestra Señora de Aravaca Parish this Thursday, May 25. It will be in the same church where the Princess of Asturias was confirmed in 2021, in the midst of a pandemic. This very familiar event has been synchronized in time.

Leonor was confirmed with a mask, in the midst of a pandemic

His father, Felipe VI, acted as godfather for Eleanor’s Confirmation, as he himself told the media. The celebration scrupulously followed all the sanitary restrictions established by the Covid pandemic, which then required the use of masks both indoors and outdoors. To avoid concentrations, the attendance of relatives was not allowed either, so that that day Doña Sofía and Paloma Rocasolano, paternal and maternal grandmothers, were absent. Everything indicates that this year we will see them at the ceremony. The princess of Asturias, wearing a mask with the shield of her school, did not wear a uniform. Surely Sofia won’t take it either. The Confirmation was officiated by Juan Carlos Merino, episcopal vicar of the capital.