The reception of Felipe VI and Doña Letizia at the Royal Palace, from inside: all the details

Maximum expectation before the reception of the Royal Palace, which had not been held since 2019. The previous two years, the National Holiday Day had remained in a reduced and unprecedented parade due to the restrictions of the pandemic. In 2021 we witness a fleeting greeting from the authorities to the Kings.

In a pandemic there were no huddles, there was no agape. And everyone with masks. For this reason, attending this reception, presided over by the King and Queen in its original format, had aroused so much interest, due to the return of normality. This year the reception pays special tribute to health and social services for their work in the pandemic.

In the Throne Room, the accredited media awaited the arrival of the Kings half an hour before the start. Felipe VI, as usual, has changed the gala uniform of the Navy for a suit. Upon making his entrance, The Queen has greeted us with her eyes.

Later, with unusual and almost frantic speed, the representatives of the highest powers of the State, the Government, the majority of the presidents of Autonomous Communities and the diplomatic corps complimented the Monarch and his wife. Also, personalities from the world of business, culture and the media.

The greeting line was inaugurated by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez (without his wife, Begoña Gómez). They have been followed by the representatives of the highest powers of the State, the president of Congress, Meritxell Batet; the president of the Senate, Ander Gil, and the president of the Constitutional Court, Pedro González-Trevijano. The great absent Carlos Lesmes. The man of the week, after his announced departure from the CGPJ and the TS. It is the first year that the high court does not have the representation of its president.

The members of the coalition government have attended, except the vice presidents Nadia Calviño Santamaría, First Vice President and Minister of Economic Affairs, for being in Washington; Y Theresa Rivera, Minister for the Ecological Transition, who is visiting Prague. yes it has been present Yolanda Diaz, Second Vice President and Minister of Labor. have been absent Ione Berarra, who is in the third trimester of pregnancy about to give birth; Y Joan Subirats, of Universities.

Alberto Núñez Feijoo has attended for the first time as president of the PP. We have seen the president of Vox, Santiago Abascal, and his wife, Lidia Bedman. Also Olona and Espinosa of the Monteros.

Ayuso: reverence or shake hands?

Isabel Díaz-Ayuso, who has opted for a lady dress in a powerful Klein blue color, instead of her traditional Spanish red for this act. The president of the CAM was about to bow but in the end and after hesitating, she decided to shake hands with the monarch and his wife. The greeting line has been marked by the notoriety of the return of the call. 2.500 personas.

As they complimented the King and his wife, the guests went to the reception, which took place in the Gala Dining Room and in the Gasparini and Carlos III Rooms. The caterer serves it Mallorca. The president of the Junta de Andalucía has also paraded through the greeting line Moreno Bonilla y his wife Manuela Villena