Infanta Sofía of Spain (Sofía de Todos los Santos de Borbón y Ortiz; born 29 April 2007) is the younger daughter of

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and Queen Letizia. She has an older sister,

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, whom she follows in the

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Biography

Infanta Sofía was born on 29 April 2007 at 16:50 in the Ruber International Hospital in

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by means of a

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, two days after due date. Like her elder sister, her birth was announced by the royal family to the press via

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. It was announced that her

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would be sent to a European private bank in Belgium and to a Spanish public one. The parents, then the

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and

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, did the same with Leonor's cells: they were taken to a private center in Arizona, which caused controversy in Spain. Sofía was named after her paternal grandmother,

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. She was christened on 15 July by the Archbishop of Madrid,

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, in the gardens of the

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. Her godparents are Paloma Rocasolano (her maternal grandmother) and Konstantin, Prince of Vidin. Like her sister, she was given one name, with the additional name of (of All the Saints), at her christening, a Bourbon tradition. She received her

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on 17 May 2017 at the parish Asunción de Nuestra Señora, and was accompanied by her parents, her older sister, her grandparents, her maternal great-grandmother

Menchu Álvarez del Valle María del Carmen "Menchu" Álvarez del Valle (16 January 1928 – 27 July 2021) was a Spanish radio journalist and paternal grandmother of the queen consort of Spain, Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano. Biography and career She was born in Santander, no ...

, her step-grandmother Ana Togores, and her godfather Konstantin-Assen of Bulgaria, Prince of Vidin. She is a student at the Santa María de los Rosales school in Madrid.

Title and style

Since her birth, Sofía has been a princess with the style of Her

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. Sofía's full title is Her Royal Highness Sofía de Todos los Santos de Borbon y Ortiz Infanta de España.

References

External links

Official website
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Biography

Title and style

See also

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