He Royal Palace of Madrid He showed off his best galas this Tuesday, April 22, to celebrate the traditional Honor Lunch on the occasion of the Cervantes Award, which has been delivered this Wednesday at the Paraninfo of the University of Alcalá. The REYES Felipe and Letizia They have presided over this appointment in which the writer has been honored Álvaro Pomboawarded in the edition of the year 2024.
One of the most curious details is that the monarch and his wife have appeared dresses of rigorous mourning as a sign of his duel for the death of Pope Francis, whom they remembered in various moments of the day.
Felipe VI began his speech welcoming lunch in tribute to the Cervantes 2024 Award, held this year “with respectful containment for finding us, as you know, in the official mourning period. We have not wanted, despite sadness, stop gathering With you, this broad representation of our literary, editorial and academic world, and do so, as every year, around our language, the common homeland of so many millions of people in the world. “
“At the beginning of last week He died at his home in Lima Mario Vargas Llosa. The man, the universal Hispanic-Peruvian, the citizen of the world, the brave and committed thinker; And we have his voice, his immense work, his love for his language and for his trade, his inexhaustible passion for writing, discovering and telling stories, ”the king continued, remembering the Nobel Prize for Literature.
-And yesterday morning we received, dismayed, the news of the Death of His Holiness Pope Francisa figure whose dimension transcends the scope of the Catholic Church to become a huge ethical lighthouse of our world, of our time. We have their vital and intellectual coherence, their commitment to the poorest, their denunciation of inequalities, their constant aspiration to a more fair and better world … in short, his bonhomy and sense of humor, ”Felipe summarized, who personally met the Supreme Pontiff.
A loss that changed the appointment protocol and is that the kings had to break a tradition. “And now, The accustomed and appropriate was inviting a toast to everyone present, but not
Thus during the official mourningso allow me that without doing it – and on behalf of all – it pays tribute to the immortal figure of Mr. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, and our Cervantes 2024, Álvaro Pombo Prize, ”ended King Felipe.
As he explained, due to the official mourning for Francisco’s death, they could not celebrate as usual the recognition of the Cantabrian.
