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Major changes to the Princess of Asturias Awards are confirmed

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28th September 2020
Like most things in 2020, Spain’s annual Princess of Asturias Awards will look extremely different this year. This week the Princess of Asturias Foundation announced big changes for the event, which will be held on 16 October. Presided over by King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia, along with the Princess of Asturias and Infanta Sofía, the awards ceremony will be broadcast on television and…
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King Felipe delivers speech for the 75th anniversary of the United Nations

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22nd September 2020
The 75th anniversary of the United Nations was marked with a special speech by King Felipe VI during the high-level meeting to commemorate the occasion. Delivering his message from the Palace of La Zarzuela in Madrid, on September 21st 2020, the Spanish king discussed how it would be “difficult to imagine what the world would be like today without the United Nations” and touched on…
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Princess Leonor of Spain goes back to school

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9th September 2020
The heir to the Spanish throne has returned to class in very different circumstances. Princess Leonor arrived for the first day of the new academic year without the support of her mother as coronavirus pandemic restrictions meant Queen Letizia coudn’t see her first born off to school. Leonor arrived for her first day back at the Santa Maria de los Rosales school in Madrid with her father…
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King Felipe and Queen Letizia return to work after turbulent summer for Spain's royals

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2nd September 2020
The King and Queen of Spain have returned to engagements after a summer which saw them and their family put under scrutiny by politicians and commentators as the fall out from the self imposed exile of King Juan Carlos I continued. Felipe VI and Letizia were back at work after just a fortnight out of the public eye. The couple and their children, Princess Leonor and Infanta Sofia, carried out…
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