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Spain's future queen looks emotional as she leaves family to start military training

After much anticipation, Princess Leonor has entered the General Military Academy in Zaragoza to kickstart her three-year-long military training programme in the Army.  At 12pm on Thursday, 17th August, the Princess of Asturias arrived at the designated drop-off point accompanied by her family: King Felipe, Queen Letizia and Infanta Sofía. The royals had landed about 30 minutes earlier at…
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King Felipe and Queen Letizia open a project a century in the making

King Felipe and Queen Letizia have undertaken their last engagement in Madrid before their annual summer trip to Palma de Mallorca. They officially inaugurated the Royal Collection Gallery, a new art facility that will display parts of the royal collection held by the National Heritage.  And it proved to be a headline making moment in more ways than one as they stood shoulder to…
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A meeting of monarchs in Madrid ahead of major conference

King Abdullah, Queen Rania and Prince Hashem travelled to Spain to attend the Aqaba Process meeting in Córdoba, and were welcomed by King Felipe and Queen Letizia.  King Abdullah and Queen Rania landed in Madrid on Monday, 19th June, and they immediately got on with their agendas, with the Queen of Jordan joining Queen Letizia in a visit to the Workshop Schools and Employment Workshops hosted…
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Queen Letizia travels to Croatia to fight childhood obesity

Queen Letizia has travelled to Zagreb, Croatia, to take part in the Congress on Prevention of Childhood Obesity, organised by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Government of Croatia.  Her Majesty arrived in the capital Zagreb with an afternoon flight from Madrid. Upon landing, she was welcomed at the airport by Croatian President Zoran Milanović and First Lady Sanja Musić…
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