Two months after their meeting to celebrate the 60th birthday of Infanta Elena in Madrid, Kings Felipe and Letizia will once again meet in public with King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia at the mass in memory of Constantine of Greece, who died a year ago. year in Athens, which will be celebrated next February 27 in St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle. It will be the third time that the current and previous kings meet abroad and at a funeral, after their meeting at that of Elizabeth II, held on September 19, 2022 at Westminster Abbey and that of Constantine of Greece, officiated in the Orthodox Cathedral of Athens, on January 16, 2023.
The Thanksgiving mass, on the occasion of one year since the death of the last king of the Hellenes, is an initiative of King Charles III, third cousin of the deceased, although, due to the loss of his official activity after having announced that he suffers cancer, it will be Queen Camilla, together with the Greek royal family, who will act as host for the representatives of the royal houses who attend the ceremony, after which a meal will take place at Windsor Castle to which, in principle, The British monarch will attend due to the family ties that unite him with those attending.
Queen Sofia will travel to London next Monday, while Kings Felipe and Letizia will do so on the same Tuesday. In the British capital they will meet King Juan Carlos who will travel from Abu Dhabi and the Infantas Elena and Cristina, who will travel from Madrid and Geneva, respectively.
