The color of the flowers is linked to spring. The queen letizia has chosen one of those colors, pink in all its splendor, to attend the lunch offered to the Venezuelan poet Rafael Cadenas, winner of the 2022 Cervantes Prize. Philip VI He has worn a fluorescent design by the Spanish firm Lady Pipa. Faced with this luminous and lady option, that of Isabel Diaz Ayuso. The president of the Community of Madrid has skated for the season with this super winter design, with a midi cut and long sleeves. The cobalt color is very pretty, very minimal in lines, but what a heat! It was this Tuesday, April 25, at the Royal Palace.
In the Gasparini Room, the Kings have received their guests from the world of letters, such as editors, writers, critics and academics. The first has been the honoree, Rafael Cadenas, 93, who has arrived with his children, Silvio and Paula, who is not separated from him for a minute. A man of customs, the Venezuelan writer and poet did not carry a cane. The Kings have greeted him with great affection and Letizia has spoken close to his ear.
After the greeting, the guests have gone to the dining room. Among others, were Santiago Muñoz Machado, director of the RAE; Luis García Montero, director of the Cervantes Institute; the academic Luis María Anson; and Carmen Iglesias, historian, professor and academic. The King has been reunited with whoever was his tutor during his childhood and adolescence. They have also attended this lunch on the occasion of the Cervantes Prizethe writers Javier Cercas and Luz Gabás, Planeta Award 2023 (bottom photo).
At lunch, the King spoke of Cadenas’ poetry “which is attached to life.” “He is born involuntarily from her” -he says- “and becomes an expression of her reality, that he knows failure, defeat, loneliness and exile, but also the highest feelings of the human being”. Later, the monarch, has launched a toast for “our language, for Cadenas and for the validity of the ideals of Cervantes”.