A week after announcing his abdication and nine days before sanctioning and promulgating the organic law with which he ended his reign, Juan Carlos I He presided over his last gala dinner at the Royal Palace of Madrid during the official visit of a foreign head of state. To have dinner with the then president of Mexico, Enrique Pena NietoAnd his wife, Angelica Riverathe royal consort and her replacement dressed in black.
Princess Letizia, Queen Sofía, Enrique Peña Nieto, King Juan Carlos, Angélica Rivera and Prince Felipe.
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The Queen Sofia recovered a two-piece – made up of a sequin bodice recreating leaves and a puffy taffeta skirt fitted to the hip – from the Italian’s autumn-winter 1984/1985 haute couture collection Valentino. The designer who most brilliantly dressed the Greek woman with long skirts during the almost four decades that she served as queen. These clothes did not spend 30 years in the closet without seeing the light of day, their owner had used them in more high-class snacks and other posh dates.
For this welcome with a farewell flavor, Queen Sofía adorned herself with several of the jewelry that Alfonso XIII he had given to his fiancée, Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenbergin 1906. The diadem is known within the intimacy of the royal family as the correctand was made by the Madrid jewelry Ansorena with thick diamonds, mounted in platinum, that draw three fleurs-de-lys, the heraldic emblem of the Bourbons and the reason why the tiara has also been baptized as the Fleur-de-lis or Fleurs-de-lis. A few years after the marriage of Juan Carlos’s paternal grandparents, the same business added some hinges so that the queen, in addition to showing it off like a basket, could enjoy it open, even on her forehead.
He chaton necklace It originally featured 30 brilliant-cut diamonds set in the Russian style with a platinum claw. The chaton, or bezel, is not a gem but a type of setting that consists of a metal ring that surrounds the stone and bends slightly over it, allowing the extension of the piece, in this case the choker. , can be easily enlarged or reduced. Since Ena, the last of her four names by which she was affectionately called since she was a child, liked them so much, her husband bought them in pairs (the diamonds, not the necklaces) to celebrate the winner’s birthdays and other dates such as Christmas. Although legend has it that they were the pills that the king used to console his consort when she became ill with jealousy upon learning of the gift-giver’s new infidelity. The neck ornament grew so much that it evolved into what is known as a sautoir –surpassing the royal navel–, which in her maturity the queen divided into two threads of unequal length. The earrings originally featured a plump diamond. The sparkles around were added later.
