successes and mistakes of your Christmas greeting

Moving and different. These are the two adjectives that the foreign press has used to describe the royal family’s last Christmas. The image reached the media this Monday. This is an unpublished photograph of the kings with their daughters, Princess Leonor and Infanta Sofía that was taken on June 19 in the Royal Palace, after the Solemn Relay of the Royal Guard with which the commemorative activities of the 10th Anniversary of the proclamation of HM the King. A very ‘summer’ image that they have compensated with a touching message: “Photography does not convey a feeling of winter, but words do move”dice Colorful.

At a time of national mourning for the DANA victims in Valencia, the kings have dispensed with the paraphernalia that usually accompanies the typical Christmas celebration of the Royal Houses, with a Christmas tree in the background and matching sweaters: “It’s completely different than usual”says the German press. “They have not posed in front of a Christmas tree. Instead they have used an unpublished photo of the family”. There are very few occasions in which we have seen the Spanish royal family in that situation. They did it while the girls were little but for years they have rescued some symbolic image of the exercise they are closing and little else.

On this occasion, his nod to Valencia has also taken on a special importance that has not gone unnoticed either here or outside of Spain: “Words do move.” And the kings have included a fragment of the poem by Francisco Brines, 2020 Cervantes Prize winner, as a tribute to the deceased and their families, and to the more than eight hundred thousand people affected by Dana: “And I am looking for a face that reflects light, someone that as I, having death alone, may also have, as I had, conquering it, life.”

On the other side of Christmas, the text of the kings and their daughters appears: “Merry Christmas; together we will embark on the new year 2025 with confidence” and “Merry Christmas and may we all face the New Year with greater confidence” along with the signatures of Their Majesties, Leonor and Sofía.

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