Protocol yes or no. The old labels for the swearing-in of the Constitution marked a morning suit for men and a long dress for women. This was in 1986, when Don Felipe de Borbón took his oath before the Cortes. 37 years have passed and the Queen has reinterpreted the dress code with this Carolina Herrera dress in electric blue. A blue color that has become an unexpected protagonist in Leonor’s Magna Carta oath when Francina Armengol, president of Congress, coincides in the same election as her consort.
The blue was going strong. It is the color of the script of the Princess of Asturias. And it is the color with which the Queen has paid tribute. Recycling and rescue dress, but a great dress. Doña Letizia have been synchronized in colors, but not in style, since the pieces differ greatly in their patterns. Even so, we have seen a serious expression from the Queen in some moments of the ceremony. Apparently, she would have wished that her parents, Paloma Rocasolano and Jesús Ortiz, had been present at the Congress. But it could not be. The absence of Don Juan Carlos I, who was not invited, marked the absence of the rest of the grandparents, also including Doña Sofía.