Children of the late Duchess of Badajoz :. The Dowager Duchess of Calabria. Queen Anne-Marie. Her maternal grandmother, Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia , wrote in her memoir: "I have always had a particular fondness for her, and esteemed her modesty, understanding and goodness coupled with her candid realism touches with a fine sense of humour.
There, she is very much like her father. My daughter told me what the little Sophia had once said to her about him: 'You know, Mama, I think we have the nicest Papa in the world. As her family was forced into exile during the Second World War , she spent part of her childhood in Egypt , where she took her early education in El Nasr Girls' College in Alexandria , and South Africa, where her sister Irene was born.
They returned to Greece in She finished her education at the prestigious Schloss Salem boarding school in Southern Germany, and then studied childcare, music and archeology in Athens. The couple has three children: Elena born 20 December ; Cristina born 13 June ; and Felipe born 30 January Mary's University Texas , and New York. Muhammad Yunus on his Grameen Bank , which offers microcredits to women across the world. However, in October , Pilar Urbano 's book La Reina muy de cerca "The Queen up close" sparked strong controversy as it contained alleged statements by the Queen on issues debated in Spanish society.
She criticized the military intervention in Afghanistan, where Spanish troops were taking part at the time, defended religious education in schools, and expressed her conviction that gender violence publicity [ clarification needed ] would encourage new cases to occur.
She also rejected abortion and euthanasia as well as same-sex marriage. She visited the National Library , National Museum and the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines , which had the oldest extant university charter in Asia and housed the world's largest collection of suyat scripts. She also met with Spanish nationals residing in the Philippines, and attended a reception at the Spanish Embassy.
