Infanta Sofia will always be in the shadow of her older sister Princess Leonor. This novel digs into the Spanish Royal Family situation with non-fiction details
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Infanta Sofia is sleeping soundly in the The Royal Palace of Madrid.
Chirping echoes from outside my bedroom windows.
I slip my sleeping mask off my eyes.
*knock knock*
"Your highness? Your highness? Are you decent?" the royal servants voice echoes from the long palace hallways. I sit up in my fluffy cloud mattress made of wool.
"I am decent" I answer back.
My large bedroom chamber door busts open followed by 3 royal hairdressers, 2 royal stylists and 3 royal makeup artists. I swing my legs off my bed and slip my feet into my palace slippers. I walk to my vanity and sit, once I'm sat the women start getting me ready.
I start to doze off as the royal makeup artist does my lipstick that it drags on my lip to make a line on my chin.
"Your highness?" one of the women say. Quickly open my eyes
"my apologies your highness I must have missed your lip" the shorter lady says taking a makeup wipe and dabbing the lipstick mark away.
I don't answer back and stare out the window. Mother taught me to no answer back when a servant apologizes to not be seen as anything less than I am, to claim my power.
As I'm thinking the door to my bedroom chambers bursts open
"Sofia fix your posture" My mother, Queen Letizia says walking towards my vanity. I stand to curtsy (everyone curtsy's to the queen. You should know that)
"Goodmorning mother." After i curtsy the stylists bring me to the dressing rooms.
As we walk through the halls my older sister Princess Leanor. All the servants curtsy and mutter
"good morning princess" Leanor stands looking at them with a smirk and looks at me.
"good morning sister" I start to curtsy when she says
"no need to curtsy you aren't a commoner" she walks closer to me and gives me a soft hug.
The servants stare with shock on their face.
"but princess everyone has to give respect in the palace" I can feel Leanor tense up, hoping she will let out an emotion other than being calm as she always has a calm, kind attitude.
"well, my dear sister IS a royal, but she is my sister therefore I am not better than her no matter what royal guidelines say." all the servants look shocked, still. Leanor continues on
"Now I must get down for el desayuno* were having sweet rolls!" She says with a smile on her face. She looks at the servants and they all curtsy at her quickly jumping out of the shock they were in, after they curtsy she skips off to the
"come on your highness we must finish getting you ready! We walk the rest of the way to the dressing chambers and start getting me styled.
They styled my hair in a straight down look, they started getting different clothes out and I chose a cute short dress with polka dots, formal but not to formal. Then they pulled out the shoes. So many to choose from. I choose the ones with white lace going up my ankle and the toe part was black. Then they got me dressed. Once they were done dressing me I thank them and start walking to the royal table where the rest of my family is.
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I step down the last stair and see my father King Felipe VI reading his newpaper an drinking his coffee, my mother Queen Letizia eating her plate of cucumbers, and my sister Princess Leanor looking at her plate. I take a seat next to Leanor.
"Goodmorning Infanta" my mother says biting into a cucumber. My parents never just call me Sofia, its always "Infanta" or "my daughter" sometimes I wish I was the oldest just to know how it felt to be heir and be cherished. Although if my mother and father have a boy he will automatically become heir, which sucks. My father still isn't talking to me since the "situation". I reach over for a sweet roll and take a bite.
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After breakfast I go to the royal library. I spend most of my time here when my parents are off with "Princess Leanor" and me the little Infanta Sofia has to stay back and "do something useful" so I usually come to the library and read or do my homework. This time I reach on the shelf for a novel. I open it up and read the first page, I start to get into it and take a seat on a nearby sofa.
*knock* *knock* sound comes from the glass door connected to the outside, when I see Gavi looking at me through the window. He mouths
"Where's Leanor?" I mouth back "In her bedroom chamber" He runs off towards my sisters window.
So you see, Leanor and Gavi have had a secret relationship for a year now, and my father found out about it when the royal housekeepers found Gavi's shirt left behind under Leanors bed. My father was so pissed about it that he banned them from seeing each other, me on the other hand I don't care as long as father doesn't find out I helped him practically sneak in each time. I go back to my book and continue reading.
