Kings Felipe and Letizia, with their daughters, Leonor and Sofa, in a procession in Madrid | EUROtoday

King Felipe and Queen Letizia, accompanied by their daughters, Princess Leonor and Infanta Sofa, have attended a procession in Madrid for the primary time. The Royal Family appeared at six within the afternoon on the Concepción Real church in Calatrava to witness the departure of the Virgin of Solitude and Helplessness. These are some of the conventional processions within the capital, and one which Don Felipe and his household have chosen this Holy Saturday.

The fences that delimited the sidewalks made passersby suspect that somebody necessary would come to see this picture of the Virgin, with a black mourning cloak, this Holy Saturday. The Royal Family has appeared there, which has been acquired amongst applause y lives of the general public gathered there.

Dressed informally, with denims and darkish coats, the 4 family members have waited within the public for the choice of the eldest brother of the brotherhood, for the reason that rain delayed departure. In these moments, the Kings and their daughters have taken the chance to take pictures with those that have requested them and to talk with these current. Finally, the photographs have solely approached the door of the church and the rain has prevented their exit.

The Royal Family met in Zarzuela final Thursday, when the Infanta Doña Sofa started the trip at UWC Atlantic College, the boarding faculty in Wales the place he’s learning highschool. Previously, on Tuesday, the Kings traveled to Zaragoza to choose up the princess Leonor on the General Military Academy, on the return journey they stopped to eat at an iconic restaurant and took pictures with the employees.

new custom

Until the pandemic, the Royal Family did a single official look in Easter. It was Easter Sunday once they attended Easter mass collectively within the cathedral of Palma. However, they took benefit of the impossibility of touring to Mallorca as a consequence of covid to finish that custom.

Don Felipe and Doa Letizia modified it to hold out a household exercise on Holy Saturday. A customized that has been repeated the final three years. In 2022, the Kings needed to assist Ukraine and took their daughters to a Refugee Reception Center, the place they discovered the truth of households fleeing the conflict. In 2023, the Borbán Ortiz household witnessed the Living Passion organized by the residents of the Madrid city of Chinchón.

This 12 months, the Kings and their daughters needed to seem in a procession in Madrid. Is about the primary time that the Princess and the Infanta are photographed in a procession and the primary picture of the household reunited this Holy Week.

While the Kings have remained in Madrid, Queen Doa Sofa has had a really eventful trip, visiting three cities. Felipe VI's mom presided over the Proyecto Hombre live performance within the Basilica of Palma final Holy Monday. On Thursday, she attended the disembarkation and switch of the Cristo de Mena and yesterday, Good Friday, she adopted with Infanta Cristina and Princess Irene the departure of the Cristo de los Alabarderos from the Royal Palace. Doña Sofa even walked a part of the procession route after the passage.