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(VIDEOS) His Majesty King Felipe VI of Spain Holds Audiences at the Palacio Real de Madrid

On Tuesday, March 15, 2022, His Majesty King Felipe VI of Spain held audiences with members of the Observatorio de la Vida Militar, a group of Brigadier Generals, Rear Admirals, Colonels, and Captains from various military units.

And, that’s it!

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(VIDEOS) Her Majesty Queen Letizia of Spain Opens the 2022 Rare Diseases World Day Event in Leon.

On the morning of Tuesday, March 15, 2022, Her Majesty Queen Letizia of Spain opened the 2022 Rare Diseases World Day event held at the Auditorio Ciudad de Leon in Leon, Spain. The event is organized by the Federación Española de Enfermedades Raras (FEDER).

The theme of this year’s event is, How do you see yourself in 2030? which focuses on “…ensuring equal access to social and health resources, coinciding with a future European Action Plan on Rare Diseases…” according to the Spanish royal court.

During today’s event, Her Majesty gave a speech stating:

“…at the end of the day, and behind the figures, the obstacles, the difficulties, what remains is the value of a person’s life. Of that person, who on many occasions (because a very high percentage of those who suffer from rare diseases are children) is a small person, and who looks at us (a mother, a father, a grandmother). They look at us sometimes tiredly or unconcernedly or with questions that crowd in his throat. Those of you who live with a rare disease know what I’m talking about. And that’s what FEDER is for, for answers, for help, for information, for relief, albeit momentary, for consolation at times. To reach out. And accompany. For administrations and institutions to commit. To push in the same direction, which is the value that a person’s life has, every day…”

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(VIDEO) Her Majesty Queen Sofia of Spain Visits the Basílica de Jesús de Medinaceli

On Friday, March 4, 2022, Her Majesty Queen Sofia of Spain visited the Basílica de Jesús de Medinaceli in Madrid.

For the past 300 years it has been a tradition for members of the Spanish royal family to visit the Basílica de Jesús de Medinaceli on the first Friday of March to venerate His image.

Basílica de Jesús de Medinaceli is one of the five basilicas that exist in Madrid, famous for housing the image of the Cristo de Medinaceli, a 17th-century Nazarene Christ of great devotion among the people of Madrid. Every year, on the first Friday of March, a popular kissing of the image is celebrated.

Declared a minor basilica by Pope Paul VI in 1973, the Basílica de Jesús de Medinaceli sits atop on the old Convent of the Barefoot Trinitarians of Our Lady of the Incarnation. It is the canonical seat of the Archicofradía Primaria de la Real e Ilustre Esclavitud de Nuestro Padre Jesús Nazareno de Medinaceli. Currently, it is governed by the community of the  Orden de los Hermanos Menores Capuchinos.

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(VIDEO) His Majesty King Felipe VI of Spain Meets with the President of Colombia.

On Tuesday, December 13, 2016, His Majesty King Felipe VI of Spain met with the President of Colombia, Mr. Juan Manuel Santos Calderón, at Palacio de La Zarzuela in Madrid.

Last Saturday in Oslo, Norway, President Calderón received the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize for “…his resolute efforts to bring the country’s more than 50-year-long civil war to an end…” according to the official website for the Nobel Peace Prize.

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(VIDEOS) HM Queen Letizia of Spain Participates in a Symposium in Rome, Italy.

On Friday, December 2, 2016, Her Majesty Queen Letizia of Spain arrived at the FAO Headquarters in Rome, Italy, to participate in the Simposio Internacional Sistemas Alimentarios Sostenibles en favor de unas Dietas Saludables y de la Mejora de la Nutrición (International Symposium on Sustainable Food Systems for Healthy Diets and Improved Nutrition).

Issues discussed during the meeting focused on:

“…policies and program options for shaping the food systems in ways that deliver foods for a healthy diet, focusing on concrete country experiences and challenges.

The target audience includes government officials with policy-making and program-design mandates from Agriculture, Nutrition, Health and other relevant sectors, as well as parliamentarians and non-state actors from civil society, private sector and research/academic institutions.

The symposium takes a systems approach and will concentrate on three main sub-themes: the supply side policies and measures for increasing access to healthy diets, demand side policies and measures for increasing access and empowering consumers to choose healthy diets and measures to strengthen accountability, resilience, and equity within the food system.”