Summer Holidays 2024

[getafix]

Marivent is an official residence, not a private property of the Royal Family, so Queen Sofia cannot invite whoever she wants nor can she turn the place into a family hotel like when she was queen, among other things because her son the King has placed greater limits on the family use of public property. She always repeats what she likes and loves about Mallorca and the press allows her to do what she wants without criticism. But if she likes being there so much and wants her family to go, what she should have done is buy or rent a private residence there. She doesn't give up Mallorca to spend holidays with her daughters and grandchildren either, she just swaps Mallorca for Greece for a few days at the end of summer.

She occupies the principal residence, while the King and his family live in a smaller house within the property, the same one they used when they were heirs. Queen Letizia cannot invite her family like Sofia does without being criticized. When Sofia dies, the King will probably reach new agreements with the organisations that manage the property.

ITA, lula!
I can't understand how can Sofia live with her sister in Zarzuela for years without the spanish press saying a word about it...she even attends a couple of events a year with Sofia and uses the official vehicle ....can you imagine all the cristicism if Telma decides to live with Letizia?
I believe there are also two smaller houses in the complex where Elena and Cristina used to stay...Am I wrong?

  to lula and nuno

so sofia still clings to the title she is still reigning queen!

G

[A Citizen not a Subject]

She was never the “reigning queen”. She was just the consort, as is Letizia.

She’s an almost 86 year old woman who’s following an annual timetable she has carried out pretty much all of her adult life. F&L didn’t swap their house in the grounds of Zarzuela for the main house, so presumably they’re not bothered about doing the same at the Marivent complex. Moreover, Letizia doesn’t exactly seem like a fan of the island and can’t get off of it fast enough. Why bother with the inevitable bad publicity that would follow “evicting” her elderly MIL from Marivent? We all have to put up with in-laws we’re not crazy about for the sake of family harmony.

[Principessa]

Marivent is an official residence, not a private property of the Royal Family, so Queen Sofia cannot invite whoever she wants nor can she turn the place into a family hotel like when she was queen, among other things because her son the King has placed greater limits on the family use of public property. She always repeats what she likes and loves about Mallorca and the press allows her to do what she wants without criticism. But if she likes being there so much and wants her family to go, what she should have done is buy or rent a private residence there. She doesn't give up Mallorca to spend holidays with her daughters and grandchildren either, she just swaps Mallorca for Greece for a few days at the end of summer.

She occupies the principal residence, while the King and his family live in a smaller house within the property, the same one they used when they were heirs. Queen Letizia cannot invite her family like Sofia does without being criticized. When Sofia dies, the King will probably reach new agreements with the organisations that manage the property.

ITA, lula!
I can't understand how can Sofia live with her sister in Zarzuela for years without the spanish press saying a word about it...she even attends a couple of events a year with Sofia and uses the official vehicle ....can you imagine all the cristicism if Telma decides to live with Letizia?
I believe there are also two smaller houses in the complex where Elena and Cristina used to stay...Am I wrong?

  to lula and nuno

so sofia still clings to the title she is still reigning queen!

G

- Sofia was no reigning queen, she was a consort.
- In Belgium at one time they had 3 Queens (all consorts) alive - Queen Fabiola, Queen Paola and Queen Máxima.
- In the Netherland they had 3 Queen regnants in a row (Wilhelmina, Juliana and Beatrix). After their abdication they became known as Princess. In addition the mother of the 1st Queen regnant Wilhelmina, Queen Emma, was always known as Queen Emma.

[getafix]

- Sofia was no reigning queen, she was a consort.
- In Belgium at one time they had 3 Queens (all consorts) alive - Queen Fabiola, Queen Paola and Queen Máxima.
- In the Netherland they had 3 Queen regnants in a row (Wilhelmina, Juliana and Beatrix). After their abdication they became known as Princess. In addition the mother of the 1st Queen regnant Wilhelmina, Queen Emma, was always known as Queen Emma.
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thx princi.

corrected.

sofia still acts as the reigning consort queen    


G

[Lord G¡n]

Dining out

https://www.hola.com/real...lipe-letizia-cena-madrid/

[A Citizen not a Subject]

Marivent is an official residence, not a private property of the Royal Family, so Queen Sofia cannot invite whoever she wants nor can she turn the place into a family hotel like when she was queen, among other things because her son the King has placed greater limits on the family use of public property. She always repeats what she likes and loves about Mallorca and the press allows her to do what she wants without criticism. But if she likes being there so much and wants her family to go, what she should have done is buy or rent a private residence there. She doesn't give up Mallorca to spend holidays with her daughters and grandchildren either, she just swaps Mallorca for Greece for a few days at the end of summer.

She occupies the principal residence, while the King and his family live in a smaller house within the property, the same one they used when they were heirs. Queen Letizia cannot invite her family like Sofia does without being criticized. When Sofia dies, the King will probably reach new agreements with the organisations that manage the property.

ITA, lula!
I can't understand how can Sofia live with her sister in Zarzuela for years without the spanish press saying a word about it...she even attends a couple of events a year with Sofia and uses the official vehicle ....can you imagine all the cristicism if Telma decides to live with Letizia?
I believe there are also two smaller houses in the complex where Elena and Cristina used to stay...Am I wrong?

  to lula and nuno

so sofia still clings to the title she is still reigning queen!

G

- Sofia was no reigning queen, she was a consort.
- In Belgium at one time they had 3 Queens (all consorts) alive - Queen Fabiola, Queen Paola and Queen Máxima.
- In the Netherland they had 3 Queen regnants in a row (Wilhelmina, Juliana and Beatrix). After their abdication they became known as Princess. In addition the mother of the 1st Queen regnant Wilhelmina, Queen Emma, was always known as Queen Emma.

When was Maxima Queen Consort of Belgium?

[Gemsheal]

Dining out

https://www.hola.com/real...lipe-letizia-cena-madrid/

I think it's nice they can walk around & dine out etc. for a little bit, it's just a shame there are cameras - they can't seem to have at least one unreported/unphotographed "date night".