Just hours after hosting NATO leaders at
the Royal Palace, Queen Letizia changed perspective and landed in
the Islamic Republic of Mauritania on the evening of Tuesday, 31
May. Her Majesty is travelling with the Secretary of State for
Cooperation, Pilar Cancela, and was welcomed at Nouakchott
International Airport by First Lady Mariem Fadel Dah, the Spanish
Ambassador to Mauritania Miriam…
King Felipe hosted a series of events
connected with NATO’s summit taking place in Madrid, which, in
turn, coincided with the 40th anniversary of Spain joining the
Atlantic defence alliance. In the morning of Monday, 30 May,
King Felipe, accompanied by Prime Minister…
King Felipe VI of Spain took to the
winner’s podium in Paris as Real Madrid made history with a famous
win in the Champions’ League. The Spanish team took the title with
a 1-0 win over Liverpool. It’s the fourteenth time they’ve claimed
the…
Queen Letizia undertook one of her
favourite engagements and officially opened Madrid’s Book Fair,
hosted in Buen Retiro Park. Donning a bright pink dress, the
Queen arrived at the park on the morning of Friday, 27 May and was
welcomed, among others, by the Minister of Education, Pilar
Alegría, and the Mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida.
Out of the 378 stands that make up…
King Felipe of Spain received the Foreign
Policy Association Medal at an award ceremony in the United States.
The King of Spain was in the US for a series of meetings and was
presented the award on 26 May at the Harvard Club of New York. The
honour was handed out at…
It was one of the trips that caused the
most stirrup in Spain – King Juan Carlos returned to the country
after almost two years. Following much speculation, the Royal
Household decided to release a short statement detailing what
happened during the…
Queen Sofía of Spain has tested positive
for COVID-19. The news was inserted in the press release published
on 23 May to detail the future for King Juan Carlos after the
meeting he maintained with part of his family on his first trip to
Spain in almost two years. Queen Sofía herself had only just
returned to Spain on Sunday after spending six days in Miami,
Florida, where she undertook…
King Juan Carlos has been spending time
in Spain after several years of self imposed exile. He has been
warmly greeted in the Galician town he’s been staying in, Sanxenxo,
where large crowds have gathered to cheer him. However, there has
also been a vocal reaction from…
Hot weather, a very warm welcome for King Juan Carlos and a new dilemma for King Felipe
21st May 2022
Temperatures in some parts of Spain are
hitting record levels and the heat seems to be spreading. As he set
foot on Spanish soil for the first time in almost two years, King
Juan Carlos found himself the star of a very warm welcome indeed.
Even the man at the centre of…
King Juan Carlos has set foot again in
Spain, returning home after almost two years in exile. The former
monarch touched down in Vigo in Galicia in the early evening of May
19th 2022. On hand to greet him was his elder daughter, Infanta
Elena, who hugged him warmly as he stepped off the plane before
curtseying. As he was driven away from the airport he had the
windows of his car lowered so…
