Infanta Sofía of Spain

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is de Borbón and the second or maternal family name is Ortiz.

Sofía de Borbón
Infanta of Spain
Born	(2007-04-29) 29 April 2007 Madrid, Spain
Full name Sofía de Todos los Santos de Borbón y Ortiz
House	Bourbon
Father	Felipe VI of Spain
Mother	Queen Letizia of Spain
Religion	Roman Catholicism
Signature	Infanta Sofía of Spain's signature

Infanta Sofía of Spain (Sofía de Todos los Santos de Borbón y Ortiz; born April 29, 2007 in Madrid) is the second child of King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia. She has an older sister, Leonor, whom she follows in the line of succession to the Spanish throne.

Biography

Infanta Sofía was born at 4:50 pm in the Ruber International Hospital in Madrid by means of a caesarean section, two days after Letizia's due date. Like her elder sister, her birth was announced by the Royal Family to the press via SMS. It was announced that her umbilical cord stem cells would be sent to a European private bank in Belgium and to a Spanish public one. The couple did the same with Leonor's cells: they were taken to a private center in Arizona, which caused controversy in Spain.

Sofia was named after her paternal grandmother, Sofía of Greece and Denmark. She was christened on 15 July in the gardens of the Palacio de la Zarzuela. Her godparents are Paloma Rocasolano (her maternal grandmother) and the Prince of Vidin. Like her sister, she was given one name, with the additional name of de Todos los Santos (of All the Saints), at her christening, a Bourbon tradition.

Titles, styles and arms

Sofia is styled as Her Royal Highness Infanta Sofia of Spain.

Arms

Arms of Infanta Sofía of Spain

Notes Infanta Sofía's personalized coat of arms are the shield of the arms of the monarch in right of Spain. Crest The crown of Infantes of Spain Escutcheon Quarterly I. Gules a castle Or, triple-embattled and voided gate and windows, with three towers each triple-turreted, of the field, masoned Sable and ajoure Azure; II. Argent a lion rampant purpure crowned Or, langued and armed; III. Or, four pallets Gules; IV. Gules a cross, saltire and orle of chains linked together Or, a centre point Vert. Argent enté en point, with a pomegranate proper seeded Gules, supported, sculpted and leafed in two leaves Vert. Inescutcheon Azure bordure Gules, three fleurs-de-lys Or. Other elements The whole differenced by a label of three points azure, the points charged with a heraldic rose gules barbed and seeded vert and fimbriated or. Symbolism As with the Royal Arms of Spain. The first quarter are the arms of Castile, the second of León, the third of Aragon and the fourth of Navarre. Enté en point, the arms of Granada. Inescutcheon, the arms of Bourbon-Anjou. The rose is a charge of her mother's familiar heraldry (Rocasolano).

Ancestry

Family of Infanta Sofía of Spain

16. Alfonso XIII of Spain               8. Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona                       17. Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg               4. Juan Carlos I of Spain                             18. Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies               9. Princess Maria Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies                       19. Princess Louise of Orléans               2. Felipe VI of Spain                                   20. Constantine I of Greece               10. Paul of Greece                       21. Princess Sophia of Prussia               5. Princess Sophia of Greece and Denmark                             22. Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick               11. Princess Frederica of Hanover                       23. Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia               1. Infanta Sofía of Spain                                         24. José Ortiz Pool               12. José Luis Ortiz Velasco                       25. Carmen Velasco Gutiérrez               6. Jesús José Ortiz Álvarez                             26. Eulalio Álvarez de la Fuente               13. María del Carmen Álvarez del Valle                       27. Plácida del Valle Arribas               3. Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano                                   28. Miguel Rocasolano Cebrián               14. Francisco Julio Rocasolano Camacho                       29. María Camacho Rodríguez               7. María Paloma Rocasolano Rodríguez                             30. Enrique Rodríguez ...               15. Enriqueta Rodríguez Figueredo                       31. María Paloma Figueredo ...

External links

• Official website of the Spanish Monarchy
• Casa Real Announcement of the birth
• Hello! magazine announcement of the birth
• Family Search

Infanta Sofía of Spain House of Bourbon Born: 29 April 2007
Lines of succession
Preceded by The Princess of Asturias	Line of succession to the Spanish throne 2nd position	Succeeded by The Duchess of Lugo