During the time that her sister Elionor has been studying at the boarding school in Wales (United Kingdom), Infanta Sofia has been the queen of the house. Being born the second in a royal family is not easy, and if not ask the spirit of Margaret of England, as she says Helena Bonham-Carter did to interpret her in The crown.
The infanta Sofia, who is 16 years old today, was born with a particularity more typical of common families and never seen in royal families: still in her mother's womb, it was made public that she was a girl and in this way they calmed down to those who already speculated that, if the baby that the then Princess Letícia was expecting was a boy, Eleonor would advance in the order of succession. That the Constitution marked, as it still dictates, the preference of men over women, is an anachronism that has not yet been resolved.
Everyone who knows her claims that Sofia de Borbó Ortiz has inherited (or perhaps copied) the determined character of her mother, Queen Letizia, even though she is physically the same as her bestie, Princess Irene of Greece, when she was young man The status of second in the line of succession marks her public life but not her private life, since the Kings educate their daughters in the same way. Eleonor has set her future as princess of Asturias and the infanta Sofia also has a singularity: to be her sister's support and companionship, perhaps the only thing that, over the years, she can keep.
The girl Sofia was given this name by her paternal grandmother, after the infants Elena and Cristina preserved this name for the first daughter of their brother Felip.
Probably if Eleanor had been born after a boy, called to be king, she would have been called Sofia, but since she was the first and heir a new name was chosen in the dynasty so that, over the years, there would be no confusion between whom was Queen Sofia and a new queen with the same name. So, the second daughter of Felipe and Letícia inherited her grandmother's name.
Sofia de Borbó has always followed in her sister's footsteps. First at the nursery of El Pardo; until now at the Santa María school, and in a few months at the Atlantic College in Wales, where, like Elionor, she will take two years of international baccalaureate. In a few weeks, Sofia will receive confirmation, as her sister did two years ago. The two daughters of the Kings are educated in Catholicism, following the beliefs of their father, while their mother is agnostic.
The last time she was seen in public was on April 8 in Chinchón, where, with her parents and sister, she went to see the living passion. Taller than Eleonor and freer when it comes to dressing and moving; she is outgoing, spontaneous and hot-tempered, characteristics known to those who share life or studies with her, since in public, on the other hand, she is just as shy as her sister and never takes the initiative, aware that her position is that of background
We have heard his voice on the only occasion when, with Princess Elionor, he spoke in two recordings that were made public on April 23, 2020, in the midst of a pandemic. The two sisters read individual paragraphs from Don Quixote and then sent a message to the children and teenagers who, like them, had to continue their studies from home. Until he goes to Wales at the end of August, coinciding with Eleonor's entry into the Saragossa Military Academy, he will live the last months of adolescence and relative family normalcy. From then on it will start to get really big.
