Kitin Munoz: Marriage is My Greatest
Adventure (22 Sep 2002)
Marriage is my greatest adventure, Spanish sailor and turer Kitin Munoz - the future husband of princess Kalina, the daughter of the Bulgarian Prime Minister Saxe-Coburg said for magazine Hola. We are making final preparations and all goes smoothly, he told Spanish journalists during the presentation of a documentary TV series about his travels. "Kalina is as adventurous as I am. Both of us love the unknown and travelling," he added. The fiancé of princess Kalina will be anchor of a series of documentary shows on one of the most popular Spanish TV channels. Princess Kalina will go down the aisle to alter for Spanish sailor and adventurer Kitin Munoz end-October in Bulgaria. Princess Kalina Married Kitin Munoz in Bulgaria
(27 Oct 2002)
Princess Kalina (30), the youngest child of Bulgaria's Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg, married Spanish sailor and adventurer Kitin Munoz (43) at the Tsarska Bistritsa Residence. The Tsarska Bistritsa residence is located near the Borovets mountain resort, some 70 km off Sofia, in the outskirts of the Balkans highest peak, Moussala. Only a week ago the villa was returned to the family of Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. It belonged to his father, King Boris III, and was nationalized in 1947 after the communists takeover of power in Bulgaria. The two were wed by the head of the Catholic Diocese of Sofia and Plovdiv, Monsignor Georgi Yovchev. The wedding was officiated in the Bulgarian language and the choir with the St Ludwig Catholic Cathedral in Plovdiv also sang in Bulgarian.During the Catholic ceremony in Tsarska Bistritsa Kalina and Kitin said "I do" in Spanish. Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg accompanied his daughter to the alter in one of the marquees, decorated with many flowers. The bride and bridegroom exchanged rings and swore an oath of eternal fidelity. The bride wore a white dress, designed according to the Bulgarian folk tradition. During the ceremony Kalina's brothers stood next to her and tears were noticed in the eyes of their parents.
According to the Bulgarian tradition, Princess Kalina and Kitin Munos were welcomed with bread and salt in front of the Holy Transfiguration Eastern Orthodox Church in Borovets. The young couple went there right after the wedding ceremony, held according to the Catholic tradition. The hall, where the ceremony took place, was decorated with candles and flowers. A fire burned on the glade in front of the two marquees as Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg and his wife Margarita Gomez-Acebo welcomed the guests. Initially, the happy event was planned for September in Sofia but this coincided with the wedding of Spanish Prime Minister Aznar's daughter. The invitation cards featured a picture of Borovets taken by Kalina and the Bulgarian national flag. No crown symbols or titles of nobility are printed, just the two letters KK. At the Holy Transfiguration Eastern Orthodox Church in Borovets Princess Kalina and Kitin Munos were blessed by Eastern Orthodox clergymen. This was the only part of the wedding to which citizens were freely admitted. Kalina gave her bouquet, flower by flower, to the people in front of the church who sang Bulgarian folk songs. Samokov Mayor presented the couple with an icon of St Simeon of Samokov and a key from the town on behalf of the Samokov citizens. HRH the Infanta Cristina of the Spanish Royal Family was one of the 250 guests attending the wedding of Princess Kalina. She, Moroccan Princess Lalla Hasna and the other foreign women-guests wore hats to the latest fashion, decorated with pin feathers, beads, ribbons, artificial flowers and other floral elements. Royal celebrities, grand-scale politicians and prominent people are among the guests of the aristocratic wedding. Some 200 guests in total are from abroad and put up in hotels in the Borovets winter resort. 150 of them arrived with a charter flight in Bulgaria Friday. Kalina's brothers and their wives, Kitin's mother, his two brothers and his sister, and Simeon Saxe-Coburg's sister Princess Marie-Louise also attended the ceremony. Duchess Carmen, daughter of generalissimo Francisco Franco, said she is impressed by Bulgaria and loves Bulgarian folklore and Rhodope songs. The menu for the wedding feast includes shopska salad, moussaka with Samokov potatoes and Kalina and Kitin's favourite blueberry pancakes. Kalina plans her honeymoon to be in Bulgaria, including the most picturesque regions of the country.
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