Princess Leonor returns home for Christmas after the ‘mega bridge’

The Christmas holidays begin for the Princess of Asturias. The last class of this Friday, December 9 ends at 2:00 p.m. The students of the UWC Atlantic College of Wales will go to London, to Heathrow airport, to catch a plane that will take each one home. Remember that among the students there are more than 70 different nationalities. It is one of the most identifying features of the World Colleges network: promoting coexistence based on multicultural diversity.

The students will leave in two shifts. One, at 10:00 p.m. this Friday; and a second, at 8:00 in the morning on Saturday the 10th, as shown in the center’s official calendar. This will be a lightning weekend for the princess together with her parents, Felipe VI and Doña Letizia, and her sister, Sofía, since the queen is also preparing an imminent trip to the United States.

The Christmas holidays, which the UWC call December Break (because of cultural transversality), cover 24 days until January 4. It will be then when the heiress resumes her Second International Baccalaureate classes.

Letizia, to Los Angeles

Only two days after Leonor arrives in Spain, the queen packs her bags for Los Angeles. In all probability, she will travel on Sunday to inaugurate the headquarters of the new Cervantes Institute in the mecca of cinema on Monday, December 12. The institution thus leaves its mark for the expansion and promotion of Spanish in the world in what will be its 65th headquarters, which is located near the Hollywood film studios.

The center’s director, Luisgé Martín, a writer with a degree in Hispanic Philology from the Complutense University of Madrid and a master’s degree in business administration from the Instituto de Empresa, will welcome Letizia at this event.

In addition to downtown Los Angeles, the presence of this instuon extends to six more locations in the US: the oldest, New York (from 1995), Chicago (1996) and Albuquerque (2000); the Cervantes Classroom in Seattle (2007), the Observatory of the Spanish Language at Harvard University (in Boston, 2013) and the El Paso extension (2021).