Leonor, ‘tick-tock’ for the Princess of Girona Awards: the preparation and rehearsal of her multilingual speech

Catalan, Spanish and English. Three languages ​​integrated the discourse of Leonor at the award ceremony of the Princess of Girona Foundation Awards (FPdGi) last year. The act was held in Barcelona due to the pressure for independence (the King was declared persona non grata in the city of Girona in 2018). In its 14th edition, the event returns to Girona, a symbolic event for the heiress because it marks her first time celebrating these distinctions in this province.

Princess Leonor prepares this multilingual speech to the millimeter. It will be a speech of about 5 minutes. The usual and expected thing is that she pronounces a greeting with an intro in Catalan of approximately one minute and a half. With a perfect accent and a rehearsed cadence, the princess usually maintains a firm and determined tone. Every year that she passes by we see her more sure of herself. She manages the times, the silences and controls the pauses. She has in her mother, Joyto the ideal teacher as a professional expert in public speaking.

He not only delivers the speech in several languages. At the time of delivering the awards, the heiress uses the language of each of the winners or English as the vehicular language.

One of the most anticipated is the young violinist Maria Duenas, Arts Award. The 20-year-old from Granada, ambassador of Marca España, is the author of the album Beethoven and Beyonda work that he has recorded at the Wiener Musikverein in Vienna (Austria), with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and Manfred Honeck.

They have also been distinguished, the engineer and founder of Open Cosmos, Rafael Jorda; doctor in biomedicine Marc Schneeberger, professor at Yale University; the founder of the Palliative Art Foundation, Silvia Fernandez; and the co-founder of the largest childcare platform in Kenya, Kidogo, the Canadian Sabrina Habib.

With Ferran Adrià, in the kitchens of the ElBulli Museum

We will see him this Wednesday, July 5 at 7:30 p.m. at the Hotel Camiral, in Caldes de Malavella, in Girona. Before this ceremony, as an appetizer for the awards program, the daughters of Felipe VI and Letizia will visit the elBulli1846 Museum in Roses (Girona), which was once the best restaurant in the world. Its creator, chef Ferran Adrià, who was the protagonist of the gastronomic revolution in the world in 2004, will act as host and will offer you the home tour for what was his house.