Kings Felipe and LetÃcia will go to London on May 5 to attend, the following day, the coronation of King Charles III, which will take place in Westminster Abbey. Unlike Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral, King John Charles and Queen Sofia will not be there, as Buckingham Palace has only invited heads of state and Commonwealth heads of state to the ceremony. In the coming days, however, and due to the kinship and relationship that unites them, the British sovereign will have a private lunch with King Juan Carlos, who will travel from Abu Dhabi to London and then fly to Spain .
The invitation of Charles III was, in fact, 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, scene of his first trip since self-exile in Abu Dubai. Charles III will share a lunch with the king, 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 official events . Charles III already held a private meeting with his counterpart Felipe VI, when he went to London on November 21 to attend a commemorative dinner at the Chamber of Commerce of Spain in the United Kingdom.
On Wednesday, April 19, after his stay in London, the King’s father will fly to Spain, but will not appear in public until the weekend, when training for the Spanish 6M Championship begins, which, based on at the Club NÃ utic de Sanxenxo, it will be contested in the estuary of Pontevedra.
Kings Felipe and LetÃcia resumed their official agenda yesterday after attending the commemoration of the bicentenary of the Ateneo de Madrid, after the Easter break, in which they took the opportunity to go, with their daughters, Elio nor and Sofia, in Chinchón, where they shared with neighbors and visitors the staging of the Living Passion.
The actor Miguel Rellán, who at the ceremony played a grandfather who explains to his granddaughter the trajectory of the Ateneo, encouraged the King to play the flamenco box again, while showing him what was on the stage, as he did on March 27 in Cádiz at the inauguration of the Congress of the Spanish Language. The King kindly declined the offer and even joked about his abilities. “I think I will remember this for the rest of my life, but I don’t care, on the contrary”, he said, then went on to congratulate the Ateneo and assure that it is one of the most relevant cultural institutions in the country.
The building that houses the Athenaeum, in the Letres district of Madrid, was inaugurated by Alfonso XII in 1884, and throughout its history prominent figures from literature, science, the art and politics. They have been part of it, for example, José Echegaray, Fernando de los RÃos, Federico GarcÃa Lorca, Ramón MarÃa del Valle-Inclán, Miguel de Unamuno and Manuel Azaña, who combined the position of president of the government of the Second Republic with the of the cultural entity.
