On Friday, January 26, 2013, the official website for the Spanish royal family removed a page dedicated to His Majesty King Juan Carlos I of Spain’s son-in-law, Mr. Iñaki Urdangarín, the Duke of Palma.

According to the Spanish newspaper, ABC, the decision to remove Mr. Urdangarín from the website was due to “…new incriminating emails sent by Mr. Urdangarín to his former Instituto Nóos business partner, Mr. Diego Torres.”  The two are accused of embezzlement, fraud, misuse of public funds, and forgery from the non-profit organization they once presided over, Instituto Nóos.

For more information about this latest news please click here.

Their Majesties King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofia of Spain, along with Their Royal Highnesses Prince Felipe and Princess Letizia of Asturias, hosted a gala reception for members of the diplomatic corps at the Palacio Real de Madrid on January 23, 2013.

In his speech the old king spoke about the importance of international relations, the economic crisis, the situation in Mali, and a bunch of other stuff that you probably don’t care about.   🙂

On January 22, 2013, His Majesty King Juan Carlos I of Spain held an audience with the Consejo de Administración de Enagás (CAE) at Palacio de la Zarzuela in Madrid.

Meanwhile, His Royal Highness Prince Felipe held his own audience with the Governor of the Brazilian State of Minas Gerias, Mr. Antonio Anastasia, at the royal palace.

And, finally, His Majesty King Juan Carlos I has “… made cuts in payments to the royal family…”  Click here for more information from UPI News.  Or, you can watch the video below.

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Her Majesty Queen Sofía of Spain was at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid on January 22, 2013, to attend the inauguration of the exhibition, La Invención Concreta: Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros.

Per the official website of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia:

“This exhibition specifically focuses on the development of geometric abstraction in Latin America, covering a time frame that begins in the thirties and concludes in the seventies of the twentieth century.

Although this type of abstract art developed initially in Europe and Russia, some South American artists took it as a language of cosmopolitan and progressive future from the modern cities of Montevideo, Buenos Aires, São Paolo, Rio de Janeiro, and Caracas.  Geometric abstraction thus becomes a vehicle of expression for the emergence of a continent that explored the mid-twentieth century political and cultural ideas”

La Invención Concreta: Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros will be open to the public on January 23 and ends on September 16, 2013.

For more information about the exhibition as well as the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía please click here.

His Majesty King Juan Carlos I of Spain held an audience this afternoon at Palacio de la Zarzuela with the Lehendakari (President) of the Basque government, Mr. Iñigo Urkullu Renteria.

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His Majesty King Juan Carlos I of Spain held an audience at Palacio de la Zarzuela with the President of the Xunta of Galicia, Mr. Alberto Núñez Feijóo, on January 18, 2013.

And, well, that’s it.   🙂

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