The Easter holidays gave Infanta Sofía something that life in Lisbon does not often allow: time with her family.
From Good Friday, when she appeared with her parents and sister in a procession in Carabanchel, through the weekend, the Infanta had several days to take a break from university and reconnect with the friends she has seen less and less since moving to Portugal to study.
Photographers caught her visiting her old school, the same institution where King Felipe and Princess Leonor studied before her. The photo ended up on the front page of Diez Minutos, and beyond the anecdote of the location, what stands out is what she was wearing.
Princess Leonor’s younger sister was wearing jeans with frayed hems and a burgundy sweater. Nothing more.
Sofía has a style that doesn’t change depending on the setting: casual, understated, and unflashy—the kind of clothes any girl her age would choose to spend an afternoon with friends. College and distance have not shifted that approach one iota, which, when you think about it, is a consistency not always seen in people who grow up in the spotlight.
What is clear, though, is that these getaways to Madrid have an expiration date every time they begin.
Sofia returns to Lisbon, back to her academic routine, and these reunions remain a brief but deeply normal interlude that she seems to value greatly.