Background
Infanta Sofía was born at 4:50 pm in the Ruber International Clinic in Madrid by means of a caesarean section, two days after Letizia"s due date.
Infanta Sofía was born at 4:50 pm in the Ruber International Clinic in Madrid by means of a caesarean section, two days after Letizia"s due date.
She has an older sister, Leonor, whom she follows in the line of succession to the Spanish throne. lieutenant 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.
She was christened on 15 July in the gardens of the Palacio de la Zarzuela.