Yesterday the Royal Family published the complete list of institutional gifts received by the kings, Princess Leonor, Infanta Sofía and the queen emeritus during 2023. According to the statement from the Royal Family, they donated 301 objects “related to the official activities of the members of the Royal Family, delivered, either in exercise of a specific provision contained in the program (exchange or delivery of a gift), well in the context of a duly scheduled official activity”.
Also included are the present from administrations, entities and public institutions, as well as gifts offered by foreign authorities.
Did you receive any gifts from Salamanca? Well yes. In this extensive list of presents, which can be consulted in full at this link, there are some sent by Salamanca institutions or authorities.
The most generous was the then university rector Ricardo Rivero. On November 29, he presented Queen Emeritus Sofia with a bound copy of the work ‘Parir el alba’, by Gioconda Belli, awarded in the XXXIII edition of the Reina Sofía Prize for Ibero-American Poetry, promoted by the University of Salamanca. A couple of months later, on December 27, she delivered an institutional gift to Her Majesties: two copies of the facsimile ‘To win is to convince’, a reproduction of the handwritten notes of Miguel de Unamuno during his famous intervention in the Usal auditorium on October 12, 1936.
It is also worth highlighting the gift that the president of the Junta de Castilla y León, the Alfonso Fernández Mañueco from Salamancahe gave to the princess Eleanor On November 30, the day of his constitutional oath before the Cortes Generales: a set of earrings Could he have put them on? Perhaps, since although the ownership of the gifts is National Heritage, members of the Royal Family can use them.
