After her trip to Panama to see Princess Leonor on the scale of the Juan Sebastián Elcano school ship, Queen Letizia will resume her official agenda with a visit to the Permanent Book Fair of Madrid of the Cuesta de Moyano, which this year celebrates her centenary. An act in which the mother of the heiress will maintain an encounter with the booksellers and honor partners of the Citizen Association of the Cuesta de Moyano and will be able to tour the different positions of this fair that has become a place of reference for lovers of literature, as is the case of herself.
Doña Letizia has never hidden her passion for reading and her devotion to books. Apart from this visit to the slope of Moyano, the truth is that King Felipe VI’s wife participates practically every year at the inauguration of the Madrid Retirement Park Book Fair, but, in addition, he takes advantage of in his free time to make some escape and travel the incognito booths. Private visits that in most cases transcend details and even images.
Queen Letizia at the Book Fair. (Photo: Gtres)
The love of Queen Letizia for literature comes from afar and is closely related to her previous profession as a journalist. A hobby that has managed to convey to his two daughters and that he shares with King Felipe VI, as in the case of his passion for cinema. She herself has spoken in many of her speeches about the importance of promoting reading, above all, among young people and children. «We are here because reading, education … make us probably better. Thanks to all those who are involved in any of the possible ways in that task that seems easy, perhaps inconsequential, which is to get a person, a child, anyone, stop, remain silent with some recollection for a while, take a book and read. That’s all. So much, so, as that. Thank you”he said in one of the ceremonies of delivery of the SM awards, one of the inescapable citations of his agenda related to literature. But it is not the only one.
Queen Letizia at the Book Fair. (Photo: Gtres)
-Doña Letizia is never delivered to the Cervantes Award at the Paraninfo of the University of Alcalá de Henares, which is attended by year after year in the company of King Felipe VI. In the same way, its commitment to the Cervantes Institute is constant, and there have been several venues of the organization that has visited outside our country. The queen has a close relationship with its director, Luis García Montero. Interestingly, the first official solo act of Princess Leonor was a visit to the Cervantes Institute in Madridwhere he deposited two books in his box of letters.
Doña Letizia has managed to convey her love for books to her two daughters, Princess Leonor and Infanta Sofia. In fact, in the middle of the pandemic we were able to listen to both of them participating in the virtual reading of The Quijote on the occasion of the Book Day.
Queen Letizia with sonsoles onega. (Photo: Gtres)
The first official gift to the king
The Queen already showed her passion for literature in the hand request that was held at the El Pardo Palace in November 2003. While Felipe VI gave her fiance a family jewel, she explained that she had given her with a literary jewel. It was a first edition of the work Don Enrique el Dolting’s maiden of 1850, by Mariano José de Larra.
