After the restrictions imposed by the pandemic in 2020, in which the ceremony was held at the Covadonga Hall of the Hotel Reconquista without a public or just awarded, the Princesa de Asturias awards returned this Friday, October 22 to the Campoamor theater of Oviedo with almost all its splendor
.
That and the presence of the heiress, Leonor, who will travel to Spain for the first time since she settled in Wales on August 30 to take international baccalaureate at the Atlantic College, make this appointment an event.
In the last national holiday, the school rules prevented him from traveling, since she had to keep five days of quarantine on the return of her, so she’s sister of her Sofia went alone to the parade with the kings.
As a novelty, on Thursday, October 21, at seven thirty in the afternoon, Leonor will attend for the first time together with the Kings and the Infanta Sofia, which also premieres, the concert celebrated on the Auditorium
Prince Felipe.
For this reason, the heiress has ahead of its autumn vacation one day, that the boarding school sets from October 22 to 31, and even seems that she will fly direct from London to Oviedo.
Last year she was suspended, but in this the XXIX edition of her, she has retaken with 60% of capacity.
Organized by the Princesa de Asturias Foundation, the Symphony Orchestra of the Principality will interpret fantasy for a gentleman and concert of Aranjuez under the baton of the Alicantino Josep Vicent, who runs The World Orchestra and is also common for the Philharmonic of London and Rotterdam.
On Friday, 22 will be the great day of the delivery of awards, especially intense for the monarchs and their daughters: Throughout the morning they will impose the medals of Asturias and will maintain audiences at the Hotel Reconquista with members of the Jury, the Board of the Foundation
And the awarded.
Among them, the famous Chef José Andrés, the French writer Emmanuel Carrère, the artist Serbia Marina Abramovic, the Hindu economist Amartya Sen and the Swimmer Teresa Perales, as well as a group of researchers who have developed Vaccines of the Covid.
They will also be the protagonists of the delivery of awards from six thirty in the afternoon at the Campoamor theater of Oviedo, which will preside over the kings and their daughters, but with the capacity also limited to 60% of its 1,313 seats.
For the third year, Leonor, who gives name to the prizes, will pronounce a speech, which will precede the monarch, and there is great expectation to check how his stay has influenced him in the boarding school far from his home and in contact with young people from all over
world, and if you mention this in your words.
Queen Sofia has never failed these awards, but on this occasion his presence is not safe, although it is not ruled out, since the next day he will come in Athens to the wedding of his nephew Philippos, the youngest son of his brother Constantine.
Another of the possible assistants is Rocasolan Paloma, the mother of Doña Letizia, which has been fixed other years at the Campoamor Theater.
In 2019 she came with her’s daughter of her and served for Queen’s sister to apply for her courtship with Robert Gavin, with which she was a daughter in August.
The great unknown is if she pigeon also took advantage to present Marcus, the British businessman with whom she maintains a sentimental relationship at 69.
After the Friday’s gala, on Saturday, 23 the prizes will have brooch with the delivery of the exemplary village, which this year has fallen in Santa María del Puerto, in Somiedo, an enclave at 1,486 meters of altitude that limits with Leon and lives from
Livestock and meat production.
There Leonor, who will come with her parents and Sofia, will pronounce her second speech by her although she will not have a chance to share with the neighbors the multitudinous outdoor food that is traditionally celebrated in the exemplary people, as this year has also
been suspended.
