Kings Felipe and Letizia will travel to London on May 5 to attend the coronation of King Carlos III the following day, which will take place in Westminster Abbey. Unlike Queen Elizabeth II's funeral, King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia will not be present, as Buckingham Palace has only invited heads of state and Commonwealth leaders to the ceremony. In the coming days, however, and due to their kinship and relationship, the British sovereign will have a private lunch with King Juan Carlos, who will travel from Abu Dhabi to London to then travel to Spain.
The invitation of Carlos III has been, in reality, the reason why the King's father has decided to take advantage of his stay in Europe to make a new visit to Spain, specifically to Sanxenxo, the scene of his first trip since his self-exile in Abu Dhabi . Carlos III will share a lunch with King Juan Carlos, probably on April 18, at Clarence House, the residence where he has always lived, since, unlike Elizabeth II, his successor has left Buckingham Palace for the acts officers. Carlos III already had a private meeting with his counterpart Felipe VI, when he traveled to London on November 21 to attend a commemorative dinner at the Spanish Chamber of Commerce in the United Kingdom.
The Spanish and British royal families share kinship through their common ancestor, Queen Victoria.
On Wednesday, April 19, after his stay in London, the King's father will travel to Spain, but will not appear in public until the weekend, when training for the 6M Spanish Championship begins, which, based at Club Náutico Sanxenxo, will be held in the Pontevedra estuary.
The kings Felipe and Letizia recovered their official agenda yesterday by attending the commemoration of the bicentennial of the Ateneo de Madrid, after the Easter break, in which they took the opportunity to go, together with their daughters, Leonor and Sofía, to Chinchón, where They shared with neighbors and visitors the staging of the Living Passion.
A flamenco singer performed at the event accompanied by piano, cello and cajón. The actor Miguel Rellán, who at the ceremony played a grandfather explaining the history of the Ateneo to his granddaughter, encouraged the King to repeat clapping on the flamenco box that was on stage, as he did on March 27 in Cádiz at the inauguration of the Congress of the Language. The King kindly declined the offer and even joked about his abilities. "I'm afraid I'm going to take that with me for the rest of my life, but I don't care, on the contrary," he said, to then congratulate the Athenaeum and ensure that it is one of the most relevant cultural institutions in the country.
The building that houses the Ateneo, located in the Madrid neighborhood of Las Letras, was inaugurated by Alfonso XII in 1884, and throughout its history prominent figures in literature, science, art and culture have been members of the entity. policy. They have formed part of it, for example, José Echegaray, Fernando de los Ríos, Federico García Lorca, Ramón María del Valle-Inclán, Miguel de Unamuno and Manuel Azaña, who combined the position of president of the government of the Second Republic with that of the cultural entity.
