There is no doubt about the love that the Infanta Elena and King Juan Carlos profess, as shown by the photographs that this Friday have been captured in the Royal Yacht Squadron of Cowes, on the Isle of Wight (United Kingdom), where the fleet is concentrated. of sailboats that next week will compete in the 6mR class World Championship. King Juan Carlos, who arrived on the island last Wednesday, will participate in the race as skipper of the Bribón, who will try to revalidate the title he won in the previous championship held in Finland.
The Championship, which will be held between the 4th and 9th, will be the third in which King Juan Carlos participates. In 2017, aboard the Bribón, he was proclaimed the winner in the classics category that was held in Vancouver (Canada) and, two years later, in the one that was held in Hanko (Finland). The nautical event brings together twenty sailboats from nine nationalities on the Isle of Wight who will compete for the trophy. In Cowes, King Juan Carlos is accompanied by his crewmates, led by Pedro Campos.
The last two times that King Juan Carlos has traveled to Sanxenxo, in April and July, his objective was to participate in the Spanish Cup events and train to get in shape to defend the title. King Juan Carlos has managed in recent months to alleviate his mobility problems; With rehabilitation exercises and a controlled diet, he has managed to lose twenty kilos in recent months.
The Infanta Elena, who along with her sister, Cristina, and her nephews Miguel and Irene Urdangarin, recently visited her father in Abu Dhabi, has also traveled to the British island to accompany her father, as she did at the end of last month. July when he attended and competed in the last event of the Spanish Cup, the Carlos I Silgar Hotel Trophy, which was held in Sanxenxo. The eldest daughter of Kings Juan Carlos and Sofía has a special connection with her father that has become evident in recent years, since King Juan Carlos went into self-exile to Abu Dhabi. The infanta's eldest son, Felipe de Marichalar, also resides in the emirate, which has increased the trips and duration of Elena's visits to her father.
It so happens that Queen Victoria Eugenia, grandmother of King Juan Carlos, resided at Osborne House, the residence that Queen Victoria had on the Isle of Wight where her mother, Princess Beatrice, spent long periods accompanying Queen Victoria. The British sovereign retired to this island located off the coast of Southampton at the end of her reign and was accompanied by the family of Beatrice, her youngest daughter, and her grandchildren. King Juan Carlos has visited the Isle of Wight on several occasions, with a great tradition in holding regattas, he even did so in the 50s and 60s in the company of his father, the Count of Barcelona.
Before getting married, King Alfonso XIII visited his girlfriend Victoria Eugenia, called Ena, with her family, on the aforementioned island, where she arrived from Santander aboard the Giralda sailing ship
