King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia, Current Events Part 5: July - September 2005

[lula]

http://www.abc.es/abc/pg050805/actua...arca_saudi.asp

S.M. the King Juan Don Carlos came today, on Friday, to Riyadh the sovereign Fahd to express to the new monarch of Saudi Arabia, Abdala, his condolences for the death, last Monday, of his step-brother and predecessor.
From the airport, the king Juan Carlos accompanied by the Spanish minister of Foreign Affairs, Michael Angel Moratinos, moved to a private estate that the new monarch Abdala has in the south of Riyadh.
The sovereign Spanish has foreseen to remain one day in the Saudi capital, in an official visit which lens is to express the condolences for Fahd's death and to congratulate his successor on his ascension to the throne.
The Royal Spanish family had a narrow relation with the house of the Ibn to the-Saud, and especially with the sovereign deceased, who was occurring veranear in the city of Marbella, in the south of Spain

[lula]

From Terra:

[isabella_]

Here a clip from Antena 3 TV.

Try this link:
mms://a953.v59721.c5972.g.vm.akamaistream.net/7/953/5974/3c99fd9f/wms.antena3tv.com:81/a3noticias/1/7/omnht76084.wmv

And if it doesn't work try this other one and click below the pic. (You can choose your connection)
http://www.antena3.com/a3n2004/servlet/Noticias?destino

[marezdote]

Juan Carlos~

Martes, 9 de agosto de 2005
AUDIENCIA. EMILIO PɒEZ TOURIя, PRESIDENTE DE LA XUNTA DE GALICIA
Palacio de Marivent. Palma de Mallorca

[rchainho]

i had some difficulties in posting the pics but here comes the report about the travel that the kings made in Azores. Caras magazine from last wednesday.

[lula]

From Getty:

Spanish's King Juan Carlos (R) and newley-elected president of Galicia, Emilio Perez Tourino speak prior to their meeting at the Marivent Palace in Palma de Mallorca 09 August 2005.

[isabella_]

There is a clip in the web of Telemadrid from this morning.

http://www.telemadrid.com/informativ...1&seccion=2ESP

[marezdote]

Official pic from casareal.es

[Juanita]

Somebody knows when is that the Kings of Spain go to offer the traditional dinner to prime minister Zapatero in Marivent?

[lula]

Originally Posted by ...JuAnItA...

Somebody knows when is that the Kings of Spain go to offer the traditional dinner to prime minister Zapatero in Marivent?

I believe that on Friday, the 26th, and but in these days.

[Juanita]

Originally Posted by lula

I believe that on Friday, the 26th, and but in these days.

Thanks lula!

[rchainho]

i think that the king will go the the funeral of the 17 spanish military men that died in Irak.

[fanletizia]

The Kings will make his first official visit to the Pope the 5 of September


http://www.lavanguardia.es/web/20050...190977587.html

[lula]

Originally Posted by rchainho

i think that the king will go the the funeral of the 17 spanish military men that died in Irak.

The soldiers died in Afghanistan. Yes, the Kings probably are present at the funeral, and maybe the Princes also.

[Elsa M.]

http://www.antena3.com/a3n2004/servl...=si&id=9823635

Immediately after the news of the accident with the Spanish helicopter in Afghan, King Juan Carlos was informed by the president of the Government and the minister of Defence. According to sources of the Royal House, the Kings, along with the Princes of Asturias and the rest of the Royal Family, are deeply impressed and consternated by this tragic event.

[lula]

The King will receive today in La Zarzuela to Zapatero and the chief of the General staff of the Defense

S.M. The King Don Juan Carlos will receive today in the Palace of the Zarzuela the prime minister, Jose Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, and to the chief of the General staff of the Defense, Félix Sanz Roldán, to treat on the death of 17 Spanish military men on his helicopter having smashed in Afghanistan.
As confirmed to Efe sources of Marivent's Palace, summer residence of the Royal Family in Majorca, don Juan Carlos is from the first hour of the morning being employed at his office of the Palace of the Zarzuela.
There he will receive Jose Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and Félix Sanz Roldán, who will inform the Monarch of the last details of the desaster in which there lost the life the Spanish military men on his helicopter having smashed near Herat.

http://www.abc.es/abc/pg050818/actua...tero_jemad.asp

[Elsa M.]

HM King Juan Carlos and HRH the Prince of Asturias presided today over the official delegation that received in Getafe (Madrid) the bodies of the 17 Spanish soldiers that died in Afghanistan.

For more about this topic, please go to the thread:
http://www.theroyalforums.com/forums/showthread.php?p=266168#post266168

[lula]

The King will visit Benedicto XVI and will preside at the Spanish delegation in the summit of the ONU in September

The King Juan Carlos will head the Spanish delegation that will travel in September to New York to take part in the Chiefs' summit of State summoned by United Nations, which will coincide with the celebration of its 60 º anniversary, in the one that one will inspect the aims of the Millenium and there will be thrown the process of reform of the organism. Before, don Juan Carlos will move to Rome for a hearing with Benedicto XVI. The agenda of the King continues being outlined, as indicated sources of the Royal Household, but it seems that there is closed that don Juan Carlos will meet with the Pope on September 5, before dividing towards New York. He will be the foreign agent chief executive first in visiting the Pope, since it was happening to Juan Paul II.

http://www.elpais.es/articulo/elppor...pepinac_17/Tes

[PrincessDianafan]

Photos of HM Queen Sofia and HE Inaki Urdangarin, Duke of Palma de Mallorca at the 117th IOC session in Singapore, July 6th 2005. The pictures were personally taken by me

[Emily]

Thank you for the pictures! This is such a hardworking royal family - granted their country was making an Olympic bid, but even so, they are always working!