Queen Sofia was admitted to the hospital yesterday due to a urinary infection, as reported this Wednesday, April 10, by sources from the King's House. The 85-year-old queen emeritus has been at the Ruber Internacional clinic in Madrid since last night due to a urinary tract infection and her evolution is being “very rapid and favorable.”
Doña Sofía, who planned to visit the Huesca food bank next Friday, is still under observation this Wednesday in the same hospital located in the north of the capital, according to the same sources, who have not given more information on the matter, as well nor when is he expected to receive medical discharge.
Unlike Don Juan Carlos, who has undergone several interventions in recent years, the last time that Doña Sofía entered a health center was on January 30, 1968 to give birth to her little son, King Felipe.
The last public appearance of King Felipe VI's mother was last Monday, when she attended the funeral mass of her nephew, Fernando Gómez-Acebo – who died at the age of 49 on March 1 – at the Sacramento Church. from Madrid. An act in which she coincided with the Kings, as well as with Juan Carlos I and his two daughters, the Infantas Elena (who attended with her children, Felipe and Victoria de Marichalar) and Cristina.
Last Saturday, Queen Sofía also attended the wedding of the mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, and Teresa Urquijo, although the queen emeritus did not attend the ceremony, which took place in the San Francisco de Borja parish in Madrid. neighborhood of Salamanca, and only went to the banquet at the El Canto de la Cruz estate (Colmenar Viejo, in the north of Madrid). It so happens that the maternal grandmother of the Madrid councilor's wife is the first cousin of King Juan Carlos, who did attend the religious ceremony and also the subsequent invitation.
In recent weeks, the queen emeritus has been seen in public on a regular basis. As is tradition, she spent a few days of the Easter holidays in Palma. A regular getaway to the Mallorcan capital that this year was interrupted to travel to Malaga, where she took a mass bath with her sister Irene from Greece, and she attended for the first time the landing of the Christ of the Good Death. The next day, Good Friday, she was also in the procession of the Cristo de los Alabarderos, in Madrid, in which, in addition to her sister, she was also accompanied by Infanta Cristina. Mother and daughter then received the medal from the popular brotherhood during an event held at the Royal Palace. At the end of last February, Doña Sofía coincided again with Juan Carlos, Felipe and Letizia at the mass that was celebrated in St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle in memory of her brother, Constantine of Greece, who died in January 2023 at 82 years old.
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