Felipe VI has assigned his youngest daughter, Infanta Sofía, her first institutional role representing the Crown as the person in charge of handing out the prizes for the new photography contest organized by National Heritage that will bear her name. Sofía de Borbón, who will turn 17 on the 29th, has not participated so far in any institutional event alone and her activities have been with the Kings or in the company of her sister, Princess Leonor. The heir to the throne performed her first solo act a little before Sofia, at 15, when in 2021 she presided over the 30th anniversary of the creation of the Cervantes Institute.
National Heritage announced this Thursday, April 18, the call for the
Objective Heritage contest. Infanta Sofía Photography Contest
, whose winners will be announced in October of this year. “Infanta Sofía, as the youngest member of the Royal Family, to which the institution is linked, sponsors the contest and will be in charge of delivering the awards,” National Heritage reported in a statement that coincides with Monuments Day. and Sites. It is still unknown when the gala chaired by the infanta will take place, which will be held in one of the Royal Sites managed by National Heritage. The competition will be divided into three categories: palaces and monasteries, natural spaces and works of art. Any photography fan who is of legal age and resides in Spain can participate, and will have until September 30 to present their work.
The youngest daughter of Felipe VI and Letizia will complete the first of two Baccalaureate courses in June at the UWC Atlantic College boarding school in Wales, a center where the Princess of Asturias also studied. The two daughters of the Kings have been very close since they were children and Sofía has always served as Leonor's support when she has had to assume her first responsibilities as heir: the ceremony in which she received the Golden Fleece, in January 2018, or her first speech, at the Princess of Asturias awards ceremony, in October 2019 in Oviedo.
Their paths separated when Leonor left the Zarzuela palace to settle in the educational center located 26 kilometers from the city of Cardiff, where she attended two years of International Baccalaureate, and where Infanta Sofía now studies. Unlike her sister and her heir to the crown, Sofia is not being educated to reign, and she will not have to receive the military training that Princess Leonor, future captain general of the three armies, is currently undergoing. The Kings want their youngest daughter to have a profession and be able to enjoy economic independence in the future. Although without forgetting that she is second in the line of succession and that one day she could have to assume the throne due to the death, incapacity or resignation of her sister.
In recent years, Infanta Sofía has started to have a more important and prominent role in the official agenda of Casa del Rey, although until now she had never been the protagonist.