Leonor is a step away from Oviedo. It is her next destination and her new appointment: the Princess of Asturias Awards ceremony. The Royal Palace of Madrid takes over the Campoamor Theater from Oviedo in a solemn ceremony that the daughter of the Kings will attend for the last time as a minor. This 43rd edition has something special: within a week he comes of age and swears in the Constitution. An October race against time concentrated in just a few days. Hectic schedule in Oviedo for the heiress who will share the spotlight this year with the award-winning Meryl Streep and Haruki Murakami, cult stars in cinema and literature.
Asturias is a talisman for the Royal Family: it represents the reunion of the Princess with her parents and her sister. This academic year Leonor resides in Zaragoza; and Sofia, in Wales, at UWC Atlantic College. Therefore, the photograph of Felipe VI, Letizia and her daughters will be a reunion. That first photo will take place on Thursday the 19th, at 7:30 p.m., in the lobby of the Príncipe Felipe Auditorium in Oviedo. They will attend the 31st Princess of Asturias Awards Concert With a certain taste of peace, organized by the foundation in collaboration with the Cajastur Foundation. Doña Letizia always surprises with a festive, bright and very photogenic look. We will see this time what her option is.
The heiress’ second posing will take place at the Hotel Reconquista. There, on Friday the 20th in the morning, with his family, he will attend three audiences: in the Council Room of the Hotel de la Reconquista, they will receive the winners of the 2022 End of Degree Awards from the University of Oviedo and those distinguished with the Asturias 2023 medals. Then, to the presidents of the juries, to the members of the Princess of Asturias boards and the Foundation and to those honored with the Princess of Asturias 2023 Awards. Among them, Meryl Streep and Haruki Murakami (photos below , upon arrival in the Asturian capital). It will be the great meeting of Letizia and her daughters with the two stars.
Meryl Streep will speak at Campoamor
In the afternoon, at Campoamor, the ceremony will be held at 6:30 p.m. We will see the heiress give a speech for the fifth time. Perhaps this edition will be the last one in which she shares the presidential table with her father. If Felipe’s script is repeated, next year the King will pass the baton to Leonor, who will preside over the table alone. Streep, on behalf of the winners, will speak. The monarch will close the ceremony. As a detail to the heir’s coming of age, it is expected that students who took the Evau exam this year and who are the same age as her, from 2005, will attend the event. The end of the party will be the Asturias anthem performed by the Royal City of Oviedo Bagpipe Band. The next day, the presentation of the Exemplary Town award, which this year went to the parishes of Arroes, Pion and Canadal, in Villaviciosa.
As a detail, it is 20 years since the first viral image of journalist Letizia Ortiz and Prince Felipe, together, at these Asturias awards. A courtship that led to the announcement of the official engagement of the heir and his girlfriend on November 1, 2003.