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King and Queen of Spain welcome Portuguese President during his state visit

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17th April 2018
King Felipe and Queen Letizia of Spain welcomed the Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa during his State Visit to Spain. The Spanish King and Queen held an official reception ceremony at the Royal Palace of Madrid where both the Portuguese and Spanish national anthem was performed under a salvo of 21 guns. His Majesty the King and President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa then reviewed the…
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Spain's King Juan Carlos returns home after surgery

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11th April 2018
King Juan Carlos of Spain has returned home from hospital after having surgery on his right knee last week. As he left the private Sanitas La Moraleja University Clinic yesterday, he was in good spirits and joked to the media, “I will not be able to run 100 metres, but I…
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King Juan Carlos has "successful surgery" on his right knee

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7th April 2018
King Juan Carlos of Spain, who has been walking with a cane, had surgery on his right knee today at the private Sanitas La Moraleja University Clinic this afternoon in Madrid. This was the 15th surgery he had undergone with the first being on his appendix when he was a child. The hospital said the 90-minute surgery was successful saying it “has been developed with total normality and the result…
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Queen Letizia worried and hurt by the Easter mass video

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4th April 2018
Queen Letizia of Spain is said to be worried and hurt about the Easter mass video that has surfaced appearing to show her in a verbal altercation with her mother-in-law, Queen Sofía, as the family was leaving the service. Letizia was wanting to protect Princess Leonor and Infanta Sofía from an “overly intrusive media,” it has been claimed. The comments were made on Telemadrid’s television…
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Spanish Royal Family attends Easter Mass

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1st April 2018
The Spanish Royal Family has attended Easter Mass today at the Cathedral-Basilica of Santa María de Palma de Mallorca in Palma on the island of Mallorca (or Majorca), Spain, this morning. Their Majesties King Felipe, Queen Letizia, King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofía and Their Royal Highnesses Princess Leonor and Infanta Sofía were all in attendance for the service on the holiest day on the…
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