Princess Leonor reappears three months after her last act



Princess Leonor made her first appearance in an official act in 2020 on the occasion of the solemn opening session of the Cortes, after the last time she was seen was at the beginning of last November in Barcelona during the ceremony of the Princess of Girona Awards.

The Princess of Asturias and her sister, the Infanta Sofía, have accompanied the kings to Congress to attend the events with which the XIV Legislature has been inaugurated in the presence of deputies and senators.

At its premiere in 2020, the crown heiress wore the same red dress - and shoes of the same color - she wore in Barcelona on the first day of the Princess of Girona Awards, when she pronounced her first words in Catalan.

Last year Leonor de Borbón starred in several moments of special importance in his role as heiress, including his first speech in Oviedo at the Princess of Asturias Awards in October and his first trip to Catalonia.

He had already attended the Congress three times with his sister: in the proclamation of Philip VI, in 2014, in the previous session of the Cortes, in November 2016, and on the 40th anniversary of the Constitution, in December 2018.

According to what is usual, the princess and the infant Sofia have arrived in Congress in a second official car after the Rolls Royce that has transported the kings.

Outside the Lower House, the daughters of Don Felipe and Doña Letizia have worn equal coats to protect themselves from the cold and then have stripped them when they access the Palace of the Courts.

As in other acts, the queen has been aware of her daughters, with whom she has had gestures of complicity, holding her hands or placing her hair.

Both at the beginning and at the end, the princess and the infant have exchanged a few words with the president of Congress, Pedro Sánchez, with that of Congress, Meritxell Batet, and with that of the Senate, Pilar Llop, respectively.

The second vice-president of the Government, Pablo Iglesias, and the other ministers of United Podemos have also participated in the greeting to the authorities.

At the beginning of his speech, Felipe VI has made a mention to his daughters when he has expressed his "greatest consideration and recognition" to the new deputies and senators.

"A demonstration to which the queen, the princess of Asturias and the princess Sofia join," he said.

Batet also referred to Leonor de Borbón when he assured that public institutions are "first and foremost an instrument of social change".

"That mandate was the one that expressed, in her first public intervention, the Princess of Asturias last October, in the form of thanks to those who work 'to preserve nature and reduce injustices, discrimination, poverty and disease' ", said the president of Congress.

The solemn session has prevented the 14-year-old princess and her 12-year-old sister from attending school today, where they are in third and first year of Compulsory Secondary Education (ESO), respectively.

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