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Crown Prince Felipe and the Infanta Leonor collected Crown Princess Letizia and the couple's second daughter. Sofia, last Friday from Madrid's Ruber International Clinic where she was born on Sunday, April 29th. Princess Sofia was born by Caesarean section and weighed 3.3kg. Doctors said she was slightly longer and thinner than her sister, who was born at the same clinic on October 31st, in the middle of another "puente", as Prince Felipe pointed out to the press last Monday. However, he said the baby's timing was better - she arrived around 5 pm instead of 3 am in the morning as her older sister did - and the weather was better, sunny instead of raining. He said the new baby would be named after her grandmother, Queen Sofia, the first royal granddaughter to bear that name. Sofia is third-in-line to the throne, after her father and sister, and her birth eases immediate pressure for the government to reform the constitution, which gives future male siblings precedence to the throne. In line with his views on gender equality, Prime Minister José Luis RodrÃguez Zapatero announced shortly after coming to power that he would change the law so that females have the same succession rights as males. However, this would need the support of two-thirds of both houses of parliament and require parliament to be dissolved and new elections called.
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