2017 in Review: Royal Event Highlights
Let’s kick off a series of end of the year highlight posts with a recap of some big moments from the royals I’ve covered here in 2017.
Posts Tagged ‘King Felipe’
Royal Round Up: Queens Letizia, Maxima & Elizabeth pet horses
In today’s royal round up, we have three queens interacting with horses and babies. Queen Maxima and Queen Elizabeth both enjoyed some quality horse time, and Queen Letizia held a baby during a walkabout. This post is basically just an excuse for me to look at photos of horses.
Royal Round Up: Letizia visits attack victims; William & Harry in Star Wars
Here is a royal round up featuring Queen Letizia visiting victims of the recent terror attacks in Barcelona, Prince William and Prince Harry‘s possible cameo in Star Wars, and Crown Princess Mary opening a flower show.
Royals send condolences for Barcelona & Cambrils attacks
On Thursday and Friday, there were a string of terror attacks in Spain, killing over a dozen people and injuring over 100. The Guardian has a good timeline of events here and here, if you’re interested. In what is sadly feeling more and more like routine as the world suffers more and more attacks this year, various royals sent out messages of condolence to King Felipe of Spain.
Spain-UK State Visit Days 2-3: Letizia flawless in blue at Guildhall banquet
categories: Fashion, Jewelry, Other Royals, Prince Harry, Queen Letizia, Spanish Royal Family, Tiara Event
King Felipe and Queen Letizia‘s State Visit to the UK continued on July 13-14 when they visited Westminster Abbey with Prince Harry, attended the Lord Mayor’s Guildhall banquet with Princess Anne, and officially departed Buckingham Palace.
Spain-UK State Visit Day 1: Kate in Queen’s jewels for State Banquet with Letizia
Part 2 of Day 1 of the Spanish State Visit to the UK – you can view part 1 here. There were so many British royals who came out for the State Banquet tonight, July 12, and so many tiaras! Queen Letizia brought out the big guns, Queen Elizabeth brought out the aquamarines, and Kate Middleton brought out more loaned jewelry from HM but also from Princess Diana.
Spain-UK State Visit Day 1: Felipe & Letizia welcomed by HM & Philip
King Felipe and Queen Letizia kicked off Day 1 of their State Visit to the UK today, June 12, with the official greeting by Queen Elizabeth at Horse Guards Parade before joining the royals for lunch. I am splitting Day 1 coverage up into two posts. This post is about the day events, and the evening banquet will be covered in a separate post.
William & Kate’s Germany & Poland schedule + Spanish-UK State Visit schedule
Earlier this week, KP dropped the detailed itinerary for Prince William and Kate Middleton‘s visit to Germany and Poland, and BP dropped the detailed itinerary for the State Visit from King Felipe and Queen Letizia.
King Willem-Alexander’s 50th Birthday celebrations
Last Thursday, April 27, was King Willem-Alexander‘s 50th birthday. He celebrated King’s Day (Koningsdag) with events held in Tilburg, and celebrated on April 28 with a special dinner. He also had a big private dinner complete with foreign royals on Saturday, April 29. All of that is set up for the fact that Queen Letizia looking amazing in a red gown on Saturday.
William & Kate join the Queen for Easter service
Prince William and Kate Middleton made their very first appearance with the Queen and other members of the British Royal Family for Easter service at St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle yesterday, April 16. I’m also including the Spanish royals attending Easter Mass.