Leonor of Spain

Leonor of Spain (2018)

Leonor of Spain ( Leonor de Todos los Santos de Borbón y Ortiz , born October 31, 2005 in Madrid , Spain ) is the first child of the Spanish King Felipe VI. and his wife Letizia . Leonor is first in line to the Spanish throne ahead of her younger sister, the Infanta Sofía .

Life

Spanish royal family

SM el Rey Don Felipe VI. SM la Reina Doña Letizia SAR la Princesa de Asturias SAR la Infanta Doña Sofía SM el Rey Don Juan Carlos S.M. la Reina Doña Sophia

baptism

The Infanta was baptized on January 14, 2006 in the Zarzuela Palace by the Archbishop of Madrid Antonio Rouco Varela . As with her father in 1968, water from the Jordan was used according to family tradition . Her first name was added according to tradition of the Bourbons de Todos los Santos ("of all the saints"). Godparents were her paternal grandparents, King Juan Carlos of Spain and Queen Sophia of Spain .

School attendance

Infanta Leonor began her education on September 15, 2008 at the Santa María de los Rosales school in the Aravaca district of Madrid. Her father had also attended this school. In 2018, her father awarded her the Order of the Golden Fleece and taught her that from now on she had to "defend the constitution".

Title, succession and salutation

The birth of Leonor sparked a discussion about whether to amend the Spanish constitution to remove the primacy of male heirs over their older sisters. A similar discussion took place in Sweden after the birth of Princess Victoria and led to a change in the regulation of the succession to the throne . In the event of such a constitutional change in Spain, Leonor would remain Crown Princess, even if she had a brother. Both the royal family and the leading parties are in favor of such a constitutional change, but have so far not been able to agree to tackle it. A change in the constitution with regard to the succession to the throne (and other essential principles) is very cumbersome: first, both chambers of parliament have to pass this with a two-thirds majority, then parliament is dissolved. After the new election, the newly elected parliament has to ratify the resolution again with a two-thirds majority, after which a referendum is necessary for the constitutional amendment to come into force.

Although theoretically she can still be ousted from the first place of the line of succession by a younger brother, she has (according to the Spanish constitution) since her father took office on June 19, 2014, the official title of the Spanish heir to the throne: Princess of Asturias (span. Princesa de Asturias ), Princess of Girona (Princesa de Girona) and Princess of Viana (Princesa de Viana), heiress of the Kingdom of Castile , the Crown of Aragon and the Kingdom of Navarre , Duchess of Montblanc (Duquesa de Montblanc), Countess of Cervera ( Condesa de Cervera) and mistress of Balaguer (Señora de Balaguer) .

As Queen, she would be the first to be named Leonor for Spain as a whole. However, it could also take the name Leonor II, since Navarre had a queen Eleanor (Spanish name: Leonor, Reina de Navarra ) in the 15th century .

As the daughter of the king, she is addressed as Royal Highness, Infanta of Spain.

National emblem

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  Standard of the Princess of Asturias

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  Coat of arms of the Princess of Asturias

ancestors

Pedigree Infanta Leonor de Todos los Santos de Borbón Ortiz
Great-great-grandparents	King Alfonso XIII (1886–1941) ⚭ 1906 Princess Victoria Eugénie von Battenberg (1887–1969)	Prince Karl Maria of Naples and Sicily (1870–1949) ⚭ 1907 Princess Luise Franziska von Orléans (1882–1958)	King Constantine I of Greece (1868–1923) ⚭ 1889 Princess Sophie of Prussia (1870–1932)	Prince Ernst August of Hanover , Duke of Braunschweig (1887–1953) ⚭ 1913 Princess Viktoria Luise of Prussia (1892–1980)	José Ortiz Pool (1889–1977) ⚭1912 Carmen Velasco Gutiérrez (1900–1987)	Eulalio Álvarez de la Fuente (1891–1969) ⚭1930 Plácida del Valle Arribas (1900–1993)	Miguel Rocasolano Cebrián (1860–1941) ⚭ 1901 María Camacho Rodríguez (1869–1950)	Enrique Rodríguez (1867–1936) ⚭1899 María Paloma Figueredo (1884–1978)
Great grandparents	Prince Johann of Spain , Count of Barcelona (1913–1993) ⚭ 1935 Princess María de las Mercedes of Naples-Sicily (1910–2000)		King Paul of Greece (1901–1964) ⚭ 1938 Princess Friederike von Hannover (1917–1981)		José Luis Ortiz Velasco (1923–2005) ⚭ 1949 María del Carmen Álvarez del Valle (* 1928)		Francisco Julio Rocasolano Camacho (1918–2015) ⚭ 1950 Enriqueta Rodríguez Figueredo (1919–2008)
Grandparents	King Juan Carlos I (* 1938) ⚭ 1962 Princess Sophia of Greece (* 1938)				Jesús José Ortiz Álvarez (* 1949) ⚭ 1971 María Paloma Rocasolano Rodríguez (* 1952)
parents	King Felipe VI. (* 1968) ⚭ 2004 Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano (* 1972)
Leonor, Princess of Asturias (* 2005)

Web links

• The Spanish Royalty (Spanish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Internet presence of the royal family
2. ↑ Kleine Zeitung article on the schooling of Princess Leonor ( memento of October 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), accessed August 27, 2013
3. ↑ King Felipe awards daughter Leonor Knight Order (ndr.de, January 30, 2018) ( Memento from February 28, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Thomas Urban : Bridge Builders Wanted , sz.de , February 11, 2018.
5. ↑ Focus article on the birth of Infanta Sofia , accessed on July 29, 2010.
6. ↑ Spanish Constitution, Article 168 ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Page 50 of the PDF document), accessed July 29, 2010 

predecessor	Office	successor
Philip of Bourbon and Greece ( Felipe VI. )	Princess of Asturias since 2014	./.
./.	Spanish succession to the throne No. 1	Infanta Sofia of Spain