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Most likely a new date will be worked out. Don't worry, this State Visit will happen this year.
Buckingham Palace confirmed that The Queen has been informed, saying: “The Queen, of course, fully understands the decision and the context in which it was taken.” It added that it was too early to confirm what the future plans for the visit would be, given Her Majesty’s pre-planned engagements in a landmark year.
Will this visit will take place in 2017?
^^ I agree that both governments should sort this out. It should be exciting to see HM The King wearing the ribbon and star of the Garter, and perhaps a GCVO for HM The Queen of Spain.
If the rumours of an American State Visit are true then that would be one of the two incoming and with the Brexit negotiations I wouldn't expect any incoming from an EU country until after that is all sorted. The other, this year, could be from a country with which the UK wants to tighten new trade deals etc after Brexit e.g. India, Japan, Russia etc. I would rule out China as they had one only a couple of years ago.
I wouldn't expect any incoming from an EU country until after that is all sorted.
indeed, i also fear that brexit may affect the existence of this visit, as the future economic and political ties of the UK to spain (or to any other european union member) are still very unclear.
Will this visit will take place soon?
Is there any particular reason for the enlightened London to seek cooperation with the Russian Federation? Given the level of animosity towards the country and President Putin and vitriol spewed by UK politicians, the member of the royal family, and mass media, an indifferent cool relationship toward the UK is understandable. President Putin has to be shrewd and pragmatic. On a different note, Russia and Germany have much deeper economic ties.Britain traditionally turrned to Russia as an ally in moments when it faced a hostile environment in Europe, e.g. during the Napoleonic Wars and in the two World Wars of the 20th century. I'm afraid though that, as long as Putin is in the Kremlin, a rapprochement with Russia will be difficult.
In any case, it would be interesting (and somewhat ironic) to see a new London-Washington-Moscow alliance against an antagonistic German-controlled Europe more than seventy years after the end of World War II.