The life of princess Leonor, who turns 15, in pictures

1King Felipe, with his daughter Leonor at the latest edition of the Princess of Asturias Awards held on October 16 at the Reconquista hotel, a delivery marked by the pandemic.

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2The princess of Asturias, on her first day of class this year at the Nuestra Señora de los Rosales school.

The heiress has opted for science subjects.

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3Leonor and his sister the Infanta Sofía accompanied their parents the Kings during their visits to Palma this summer to support the island in times of a pandemic.

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4 Princess Leonor and Infanta Sofía have joined the wave of solidarity at the moment of "enormous difficulty" that Spain is experiencing by highlighting the suffering of those who have lost a relative due to the pandemic and thanking those who "are helping and caring for others in so many ways. "

The message has been the first public statement of the youngest daughter of the Kings.

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5The Kings of Spain, accompanied by Princess Leonor and Infanta Sofía, hold a meeting by videoconference with the winners of the Princess of Girona Awards, on June 26, 2020. House of HM the King

6The princess Leonor and the infanta Sofía, in the official photos that were taken in 2019. ESTELA DE CASTRO CASA DEL REY

On October 18, 2019, Leonor de Borbón debuted at the awards that bear her name, the Princess of Asturias Awards.

After the awards were presented, the princess made her first official speech as heir to the Crown.

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8On October 12, 2019, during the National Holiday Day parade, Leonor de Borbón stood to the right of her father, King Felipe VI, as required by protocol, while her sister was next to the queen Letizia.

For this occasion, the princess wore the Golden Fleece that she received from her father in January 2018. GTRES

9In 2018, Princess Leonor celebrated her 13th birthday with her first public speech reading the beginning of the Constitution, in a session organized by the Government at the Cervantes Institute on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Magna Carta.

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10In January 2018, Leonor received the Golden Fleece from her father, “an element of tradition, continuity and institutionalization”, according to Zarzuela, “a symbolic and very significant step” and a reminder of “the demands imposed by being the crown princess ”, According to King Felipe VI.

It was the starting gun for her career as an heiress.

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11Leonor launched his official agenda in September 2018 with a trip to Asturias.

She came accompanied by her parents, the Kings of Spain, and her sister, the Infanta Sofía, to celebrate the 1,300 years of the kingdom of Asturias and the centenary of the coronation of the Virgin of Covadonga and the Picos de Europa National Park.

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12In November 2016, the Princess of Asturias and the Infanta Sofía accompanied the Kings of Spain to the Palace of the Cortes to the official opening of the legislature, in which it was their first political act.

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13In May 2015, Princess Leonor made her first communion surrounded by her family at the Santa María de los Rosales school, the private center where she studies, the same one where her father, King Felipe VI, was trained.

It was a simple ceremony, away from any official status despite being the heir to the throne.

Don Felipe and Doña Letizia wanted for Leonor a protocol of schoolgirl and not of highness.

With this decision they broke another tradition of the royal family in which it was customary for its members to make communion in a solemn ceremony: the three children of Don Juan Carlos and Doña Sofía celebrated it in the chapel of the La Zarzuela palace, they all did a May 30, and dressed in white.

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14On Christmas 2015, Leonor starred, along with her sister Sofía, in the Christmas greetings from the royal family.

The snapshot showed the Princess of Asturias and the Infanta of Spain fused in an embrace, with their cheeks pressed together and very smiling.

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On June 19, 2014, the Crown was replaced, Don Felipe became King and Eleanor, Princess of Asturias with only nine years.

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16Leonor and Sofía have given a new air to the image of the Spanish monarchy.

They are two very educated but at the same time spontaneous girls, as they demonstrated the day their father became the King of Spain, in 2014. ALEJANDRO RUESGA

17In 2012, the Casa del Rey published an image that included the line of succession in the Crown: Don Juan Carlos, Don Felipe and Leonor.

The order changed on June 19 when the change in the Crown took place.

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182013 was the last year that Queen Sofía reunited all her grandchildren in Palma de Mallorca.

Despite Iñaki Urdangarin's judicial problems, the King's mother always put her feelings as a grandmother first.

In the image doña Sofía with all her grandchildren, Doña Letizia and Infanta Elena.

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19The then Princes of Asturias, with their daughters, the infantas Sofía and Leonor, pose at the end of July 2012 in the gardens of their residence in the Zarzuela palace in a very familiar image.

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20Dressed with the shirt of the Spanish team, Leonor and Sofía attended the reception offered to the players of Spain after their triumph in the World Cup in South Africa in 2010. CORDON PRESS

21Leonor and his sister Sofía are very close.

Two years apart and with very different personalities, they get along very well.

The heir to the Crown is more thoughtful while Sofia is more restless.

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22The Infanta Leonor, holding the hands of her father, the Prince of Asturias, Felipe de Borbón and the Princess of Asturias, Letizia Ortiz, on her first day of class at the Santa María de los Rosales school, located in Aravaca, the same to which his father attended, on September 15, 2008. ULY MARTÍN

23The heir to the throne attended the Royal Guard nursery in the El Pardo palace.

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24 Queen Letizia with Princess Leonor, in the Basilica of Our Lady of Atocha, where they went to present the Virgin to the girl and thus fulfill a tradition of the Spanish Royal Family that dates back to the 17th century, 7th of June 2006. EFE

25The Princes of Asturias, Felipe and Letizia, presented the Infanta Sofía, their second daughter, on May 4, 2007. GORKA LEJARCEGI

26The Princes of Asturias pose with their daughters, the infantas Sofía and Leonor, along with the Kings and the rest of the members of the royal family and the family of Doña Letizia, in June 2007. EFE

27Leonor with a stuffed animal in his hands, at the exit of the Ruber Internacional clinic in Madrid, where he visited his newborn sister, the Infanta Sofía, on May 1, 2007. DANIEL OCHOA DE OLZA AP

28Queen Sofía with the Infanta Leonor, during the walk she made through the bay of Palma aboard the boat 'Somni', to follow the last day of regattas, in August 2008. EFE

29Don Felipe and Doña Letizia try to ensure that their daughters lead as normal a life as possible.

They personally take care of many of the tasks concerning Leonor and Sofía and when the girls were young it was common to see them play with them.

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30The princes of Asturias publicly present their daughter, the Infanta Leonor, at the exit of the Ruber Internacional clinic in Madrid, on November 7, 2005. Cristóbal Manuel