{"id":36939,"date":"2026-06-08T18:40:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T18:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/36939\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T18:40:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T18:40:19","slug":"princess-leonor-and-infanta-sofia-of-spain-link-arms-in-sweet-show-of-their-sisterly-bond-as-they-join-their-parents-to-welcome-pope-leo-xiv-to-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/36939\/","title":{"rendered":"Princess Leonor and Infanta Sofia of Spain link arms in sweet show of their sisterly bond as they join their parents to welcome Pope Leo XIV to Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like many of her fellow princesses, Sofia is balancing her burgeoning royal duties with her education. On 17 October 2025<\/a>, shortly after enrolling at Forward College to read Political Science and International Relations, the Princess had an unannounced meeting with the President of Spain, who had also hosted the Princess of Asturias on her first official solo visit last year. Clearly, her sister was inspired by Sofia\u2019s choice of degree: Leonor announced in April that she would also be studying Political Science at the Charles III University<\/a> in Madrid.<\/p>\n

Infanta Sofia has been well-prepared for her next chapter. In the Summer of 2025<\/a>, she graduated from UWC Atlantic \u2013 the so-called \u2018Hippy Hogwarts\u2019, which is also the alma mater of her older sister, the Princess of Asturias, as well as King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands and Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant.<\/p>\n

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Princess Leonor and Infanta Sofia have often spoken of their close relationship<\/p>\n

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King Felipe and Queen Letizia joined Sofia in Wales for her graduation ceremony that May, looking hugely proud of their daughter as her tutor described her as a \u2018naturally empathetic and affectionate listener\u2019. She continued, describing the young royal’s journey as \u2018marked by perseverance and remarkable personal growth\u2019 and called her \u2018a true friend in difficult times\u2019 who would be \u2018greatly missed\u2019.<\/p>\n

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But Atlantic College\u2019s loss was the Spanish royal family<\/a>\u2019s gain. In the years following her graduation, Infanta Sofia has gone from strength to strength, showing maturity beyond her years when she supported Queen Sofia following the death of her sister, Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Like many of her fellow princesses, Sofia is balancing her burgeoning royal duties with her education. On 17…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7668,9541,286,17,8160],"class_list":["post-36939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-princess-leonor","tag-queen-letizia","tag-royals","tag-spain","tag-spanish-royal-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}