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Felipe and Letizia retrospective: April 30th

2006: Miguel Urdangarín’s 4th birthday in Barcelona.

2008: Visited the European Commission in Brussels and meets Prince Philippe of Belgium

2009: Luis Carandell Awards of Parliamentary Journalism

2013: Inauguration of HM King Willem Alexander of the Netherlands and HRH Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands at New Church in Amsterdam, Netherlands. (1, 2) & Arrival at the Muziekbouw following the water pageant after the abdication of Queen Beatrix and the Inauguration of King Willem Alexander of the Netherlands in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

2014: Visited the Maria Moliner school in Madrid.

2015: Meeting of the Scientific Council of the Royal Institute of International and Strategic Studies; Delivered the Tomás Francisco Prieto Awards 2014 to Jaume Plensa, received the Tomás Francisco Prieto Awards 2013 and held other audiences at la Zarzuela; Received Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi & Offered a lunch to the president of Egypt Abdel Fattah al-Sisi at the Royal Palace in Madrid

2017: 50th birthday party of King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands at the Noordeinde Palace in The Netherlands

2019: 36th Rey de España International Journalism Award and 15th Don Quijote Journalism Award (1, 2); Arrived in Beira, Mozambique and was briefed about the situation after Cyclone Idai (1, 2) & Visited the facilities of the START Hospital in Beira, Mozambique (1, 2, 3)

2020: Videoconferences: Olympia de Las Rozas Women’s Soccer Club & Plenary session of the Royal Spanish Academy

2021: 6th Educational Congress of Rare Diseases at the CPEIBas ‘Guadalentin’ in Totana.

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I have never liked spring per se. The sudden sun is merciless on all the dust and dried skin. Melting snow leaves in its wake rifts of gravel, candy papers and shit, and my throat is sore all the time. But I like the feeling of life moving forward. It’s like the end of April always pries my chilled fingers off everything I’ve held onto for too long and pushes me back-first into the green miracle of summer. “See?” it says with the kind of coldness only beautiful women can master, “”There was life here all along. You tend to forget.”

It was in April I’d once read for my university entrance exams. In April my lover of ten years left me for his new acquaintance. In April I defended my doctoral dissertation and booked one-way tickets to the other side of the world. April, for me, always ends in an emptiness that is at once vast and miraculous and terrifying like the sea or the sky. And there is nothing I can say to refuse it.