King Juan Carlos this week awarded Enrique V. Iglesias by inducting him into the Order of the Golden Fleece.
Iglesias, of Spanish and Uruguayan citizenship, is the Ibero-American Secretary General, and has worked for closer relationships between Iberia and Latin America.
Soon the King and Suárez, who later became a Duke, called elections and began liberalizing Spanish politics. The rest is history.
Today the King called the transition a “chapter that gave way to the period of great economic, social and political process.”
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On Monday King Juan Carlos, Queen Sofia and Infanta Elena met with various current and former Spanish leaders at the Congress building to remember Suárez.
His Majesty, after swift approval by the government, granted Suárez the collar of the Royal Order of Charles III. He was already a member of the Order of the Golden Fleece.
The Queen was returning from a week-long tour of Guatemala, where she met with local leaders, Spaniards and toured projects aided by Spanish development funds.
Media reports indicate this was the fourth recent problem with Spanish VIP jets for government or royal travel. One of the forced Prince Felipe to put off a trip to Brazil.
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Like many of her trips abroad, Queen Sofia is visiting projects and facilities backed by Spanish development aid funds. She also brought medicines with her on a Spanish Air Force jet.
Queen Sofia visiting a program for children.
Also this week King Juan Carlos swore in the new magistrate of the Constitutional Court, Ricardo Enríquez Sancho, at Zarzuela Palace.
King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia, plus Infanta Elena and Princes Letizia attended services today at Almudena Cathedral in Madrid to remember the 10th anniversary of the Madrid train bombings.
Members of the Royal Family met with government officials, first responders, victims and their families.
Foreign observers have expressed interest at how willing the Spanish Royal Family is to break protocol to comfort grieving families.
Prince Felipe was not at the ceremonies today. He was instead meeting with Chile’s outgoing President Sebastián Piñera and helping inaugurate new President Michelle Bachelet.
Prince Felipe has for year’s been the King’s representatives at presidential inaugurations throughout Latin America.
Queen Sofia gathered with members of the Spanish, Greek and Danish Royal Families last week to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of her father, King Paul I of Greece.
Members of the Greek Royal Family, including King Constantine II of Greece, Queen Sofia’s brother, hold deep ties to the Danish Royal Family.
King Constantine’s wife Anne-Marie, for example, was born Princess of Denmark.
The Danish Royal Family remains in power while Greece abolished its monarchy in the 1970’s.
The Royals and nobles held a small ceremony at the Tatoi Royal Palace outside of Athens, where Queen Sofia spent much of her childhood.
They also watched a new documentary about King Paul.
Queen Sofia speaking with her sister, Princess Irene, and sitting next to King Constantine.
Media outlets took note of Infanta Cristina attending the events even amid the corruption investigation involving her husband. Queen Sofia, it is said, is insisting in family unity.
For 300 years members of the Royal Family have visited the church to venerate the Christ of Medinaceli.
Back in Madrid, Infanta Elena represented the Spanish Royal Family at the Medinaceli Basilica.
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