On Monday, September 23, 2013, Her Majesty Queen Sofia of Spain arrived at the Hotel Meliá Castilla in Madrid to preside over the inauguration of the Congreso Internacional de Investigación e Innovación en Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIIIEN).
And, finally, His Majesty King Juan Carlos I of Spain was admitted to the Hospital Universitario Quirón in Madrid this afternoon for yet another operation on his left hip. The reason for the surgery: The old king developed an infection on is artificial left hip, which was originally operated on November 23, 2012, and will be replaced with a new one.