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Leonor, Princess of Asturias

b. 2005

Born
31 Oct 2005, Madrid
Country of birth
Spain

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A life in time

  1. Born · Madrid

    Birth, Madrid

What was it like?

The world around Madrid, 2005: who ruled, who else was alive, how people lived. This is general history, not a record about the family, and every item shows where it comes from.

In rural Spanish villages during the late 20th century, traditional music for festivities and religious processions often featured instruments like the dulzaina and tamboril. Later, these were frequently replaced by small itinerant orchestras playing battery, guitar, keyboard, saxophone, and vocals.

Music
Around 1975–1999

Evolution of Village Festival Orchestras

In rural Spanish villages during the late 20th century, traditional music for festivities and religious processions often featured instruments like the dulzaina and tamboril. Later, these were frequently replaced by small itinerant orchestras playing battery, guitar, keyboard, saxophone, and vocals.

Around 1975–1999

Iconic Hits of the Era

Raffaella Carrà's 1979 song "Hay que venir al sur," which includes lyrics about the pleasures of the body, became a major success in Spain despite being censored in other Spanish-speaking countries. Another iconic hit, "Macarena" by Los del Río, became the best-selling Spanish-language song in history after its 1995 release.

Getting around
Around 1975–1999

Limited daily mail train services

In 1979, the Correo (mail train) on the Ponferrada-Villablino line ran only once daily in each direction, and travellers had to adapt their schedules to the train's limited service. Some routes required walking or using lifts from others to reach railway connections.

Around 1975–1999

Regional trains as daily village transport

Between 1975 and 1999, regional trains were a vital, everyday mode of transport for locals to travel between villages and towns. These services often stopped at many stations and could take hours, such as a 190-mile route with 76 stops taking seven and a half hours.

Daily life
Around 1975–1999

Long waits for telephone service

Requesting a new telephone line was a process that could take months to be granted.

Food
Around 1975–1999

Changing social norms and water access

In the late 20th century, social norms restricted women's drinking in public, and many women drank beer or wine in secret. Public access to piped water was also a relatively recent development for some, as some villages did not have running water in every home until the 1970s.

Around 1975–1999

Meat consumption surged in Spanish households

During the 1970s and 1980s, Spanish families shifted from a traditional cereal-based diet to one with high consumption of animal products, particularly meat. By 1994, Spanish households spent significantly more on meat than those in Germany or the United Kingdom.

Work
Around 1975–1999

Shifts in work conditions and habits

By 1993, work became less physically demanding but mentally more complex, with 20.5% of industrial workers finding their tasks difficult and more workers having their pace set by external factors rather than their own experience. Cigarette smoking was prevalent in the workforce, with 43% of Telefonica employees smoking between 8 and 20 cigarettes daily.

Around 1975–1999

The growth of the shadow economy

An underground economy emerged where roughly 18% of the labor force worked, particularly single women and young people in unhealthy home environments to avoid taxes. Agriculture, services, construction, and industry all hosted this shadow labor, with some estimates suggesting up to 33% of officially unemployed people were actually working in it.

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