Felipe VI
Felipe VI, King of Spain, stands 1.97 metres tall, or 6 feet 5 and a half inches. That height earned him a Guinness World Record as the tallest reigning monarch in the world. It is a small fact about a man whose public life has been shaped by much larger ones. How does a prince prepare for a crown he will not wear for most of his life? What does a king do when his country's politics fracture? And how does a monarchy answer when scandal reaches the royal family itself?
At 12:45 on the 30th of January 1968, Felipe was born at Our Lady of Loreto Hospital in Madrid. He was the third child of Prince Juan Carlos and Princess Sophia of Greece and Denmark, and their only son. Spain was then ruled by the dictator Francisco Franco, and the baby's father was not yet king.
On the 8th of February 1968, the Archbishop of Madrid, Casimiro Morcillo, baptised him at the Palace of Zarzuela with water from the Jordan River. His full name, Felipe Juan Pablo Alfonso de Todos los Santos, was a roll call of relatives and ancestors. It honoured Felipe V, the first Bourbon king of Spain, and both of his grandfathers, Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona, and King Paul of Greece. It also honoured his great-grandfather Alfonso XIII. The closing words mean "of all the Saints" and are a customary Bourbon addition. His godparents were the Count of Barcelona and his paternal great-grandmother, Queen Victoria Eugenie.
On the 22nd of November 1975, young Felipe made his first official appearance, at his father's proclamation as king. Franco had died just over two months before the boy's eighth birthday. Juan Carlos, who had been appointed Prince of Spain in 1969, now took the throne.
In 1977, Felipe was formally proclaimed Prince of Asturias, the traditional title normally held by the heir to the Spanish throne. That May, aged nine, he became an honorary soldier of the 1st King's Inmemorial Infantry Regiment. The king, the prime minister and several ministers attended the ceremony at the regiment's barracks on the 28th of May. On the 1st of November 1977, he received homage as Prince of Asturias in Covadonga. In 1981, his father gave him the Collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece, an order over which the king is Chief and Sovereign. On his 18th birthday, the 30th of January 1986, he swore allegiance to the Constitution and to the King in the Spanish Parliament, as the constitution requires.
On the 21st of April 1990, during a trip around Aragon, Catalonia and Valencia, Felipe began publicly using the Aragonese title Prince of Girona. He was the first Bourbon to do so.
In 1999, builders began work on a new residence near the Zarzuela Palace, called the Prince's Pavilion. It cost 4.23 million euros and became Felipe's private home in the summer of 2002. By the end of that year, according to the Royal House, he had met the woman he would marry.
In August 1985, a Royal Decree named Felipe an officer at the General Military Academy in Zaragoza, and in September he began his training there. A carefully regulated plan covered all three armed services. By July 1986 he was a Cadet Ensign and had also been named Midshipman. That September he moved to the Naval Military Academy in Marin, Pontevedra, joining the Third Brigade. In January 1987 he continued his naval training aboard the training ship Juan Sebastián Elcano. In July 1987 he was named Student Ensign at the General Air Academy in Murcia, and from September he learned to fly aircraft there.
In 1989, he became a lieutenant in the Army, an ensign in the Navy and a lieutenant in the Air Force, the first of many promotions. He made captain in the Air Force in 1992. In 1993 he became a lieutenant in the Navy and a captain in the Army's infantry. Further steps followed in 2000 and 2009, when he reached lieutenant colonel in the Army and Air Force and frigate captain in the Navy. He also trained as a military helicopter pilot.
In 2016, during the Pascua Military ceremony, the Chief of the Defence Staff, Fernando García Sánchez, gave the king a personalised command baton on behalf of the Armed Forces. Jewelers from León made it from cherry wood, with silver pieces on the tips. It symbolises the loyalty of the armies and the king's command over them. That command comes with the rank of Captain General of all the Spanish armies, which he gained as king.
Santa María de los Rosales school in Madrid, which both of his daughters would later attend, began Felipe's education. He went on to high school at Lakefield College School in Ontario, Canada. He then took a law degree at the Autonomous University of Madrid, where he also completed several economics courses. His final qualification was a Master of Science in Foreign Service from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. There his roommate was his cousin, Crown Prince Pavlos of Greece. Felipe speaks Spanish, Catalan, French, English and some Greek.
In 1992, at the Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Felipe carried Spain's flag in the opening ceremony. He then sailed on the Spanish crew in the Soling class. The crew finished sixth and won an Olympic diploma, and he is an honorary member of the International Soling Association. Sailing ran in the family. His mother and his uncle, King Constantine II of Greece, were on the Greek sailing team at the 1960 Games in Rome, with his mother as a substitute. His father and his sister also sailed for Spain at the Olympics.
In 1976, Felipe went with his father to the Copa del Generalísimo final between Real Madrid and Atlético de Madrid. A journalist asked him afterwards about his favourite team, and he answered Atlético. Since then he has attended hundreds of sports events, and he also loves skiing and squash. Atlético de Madrid made him its honorary president in 2003, the year a television program would stun the country with news about his private life.
On the 31st of October 2003, a television program called Con T de Tarde announced that the Prince of Asturias was dating Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano. She was a television journalist who had been married before. There had been engagement rumours in the previous weeks, yet the announcement still came as a surprise. The next day, the Royal Household made the engagement official.
The formal hand petition took place on the 6th of November 2003 at the Royal Palace of El Pardo. Felipe proposed with a 16-carat diamond ring set in white gold, and he gave her a pearl and sapphire necklace. Letizia gave him white gold and sapphire cufflinks, together with a classic book, El doncel de don Enrique el doliente by Mariano José de Larra.
The wedding took place on the morning of the 22nd of May 2004 in the Almudena Cathedral. Antonio María Rouco Varela, the archbishop of Madrid and president of the Spanish Episcopal Conference, officiated. Representatives of royal families from around the world attended, along with most Latin American heads of state. In Spain alone, more than 25 million viewers watched, making it the most watched television event in the history of Spanish television.
Leonor was born on the 31st of October 2005, and Sofía on the 29th of April 2007. Both girls were born at Ruber International Hospital in Madrid. Leonor would later hold the title Princess of Asturias, the traditional title of the heir.
On the 2nd of June 2014, King Juan Carlos announced that he intended to abdicate in his son's favour. The Council of Ministers began work the next day on an organic law to give effect to it. The Constitution required a majority of all members of the Congress of Deputies to pass the law. Jesús Posada, the president of the Congress, said Felipe could be proclaimed as early as the 18th of June. On the 4th of June, El País of Madrid reported that the proclamation would indeed take place that day.
In the end, Felipe became king at the stroke of midnight on the 19th of June. His father had sanctioned the abdication law only hours earlier. That morning, Juan Carlos handed him the Captain General's sash, which symbolised the transfer of royal and military power. Felipe was sworn in at a low-key ceremony in the Cortes. He swore to uphold the Constitution, and Posada then proclaimed him king. At that moment he became the youngest monarch in Europe, nine months younger than King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands.
On paper, the new king held extensive reserve powers. He is the guardian of the Constitution and responsible for seeing that it is obeyed. In practice, his father had played a mostly ceremonial role, acting largely on the advice of the government, and Felipe signalled the same approach. In his speech to the Cortes that day, he promised to be "a loyal head of state who is ready to listen and understand, warn and advise as well as to defend the public interest at all times". Under the Constitution, none of his acts is valid unless a minister countersigns it, and that minister takes political responsibility.
A poll by El País found something different in what citizens wanted. Of the 600 people surveyed, 75% said they would approve if the king personally pushed the political parties to reach agreements on national problems. An El Mundo poll found that he had greater approval than his father before his reign. A 2025 poll gave him approval from about 44% of respondents, with 21% disapproving and 35% neutral. Approval was visibly higher among women, highest in Andalusia and lowest in Catalonia. A poll published in 2026 gave him an average of 6.1 on a scale from 0 to 10. PP voters rated him 7.9, PSOE voters 6.5, VOX voters 5.5 and Podemos and Sumar voters 4.9.
On the 23rd of June 2014, Felipe named Jaime Alfonsín, his private secretary since 1995, as Private Secretary to the King. Two days later he appointed José Manuel de Zuleta y Alejandro, the 14th duke of Abrantes, as Private Secretary to the Queen. On the 18th of July, he chaired his first meeting of the Council of Ministers.
In his accession speech, Felipe pledged a "renewed monarchy for a new time". Soon afterwards, he and Letizia became the first Spanish monarchs to receive and recognise LGBT organisations at the Palace. He also changed protocol so that people could take an oath of office without a crucifix or a Bible. That did not signal a distance from the Church. On the 30th of June 2014, on their first overseas trip as king and queen, the couple met Pope Francis in the Apostolic Palace.
In July 2014, the king banned members of the royal family from working outside the Royal Household. He also ordered an external audit by the Office of the Comptroller General of the State. He drew a line between the royal family and the King's family, leaving his sisters and their descendants outside the royal family. Since the 1st of January 2015, royal family members cannot accept expensive gifts that go beyond social or courtesy uses. In February 2015, he announced a 20% cut to his own annual salary, citing the economic recession.
In June 2015, Felipe stripped his sister, Infanta Cristina, of her title of Duchess of Palma de Mallorca. Tax fraud allegations surrounded her and her husband, Iñaki Urdangarín. Urdangarín was eventually sentenced to six years in prison, while Cristina was acquitted of all charges.
On the 15th of March 2020, The Daily Telegraph revealed that Felipe appeared as second beneficiary, after his father, of the Lucum Foundation. The foundation had received a €65 million donation from Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, King of Saudi Arabia. The Royal Household responded that Felipe would renounce any inheritance from his father and that Juan Carlos would lose his public stipend. The renunciation was a mere declaration of intent, since the Spanish Civil Code bars accepting or refusing an inheritance before the death of the person bequeathing it. The Household also implied that Felipe had known of the foundation, and of his place in it, since April 2019.
In April 2022, the Council of Ministers approved a Royal Decree that put the King's house fully under the 2013 Transparency Act and the 2015 Senior Officials Act. The Court of Auditors can now audit the Crown's accounts, and the wealth of the king and his senior officials must be disclosed. On the 25th of April 2022, Felipe made his personal assets public for the first time. They were valued at 2.6 million euros, or US$2.8 million, held in savings, current accounts, securities, art, antiques and jewelry. He owns no real estate and has no financial dealings abroad, and the palace said he had paid tax on all his financial earnings. That makes him one of the least wealthy monarchs in the world, set against estimates of his father's wealth at $2-2.3 billion.
In 2017, the Crown opened the gardens of the royal family's vacation home, the Marivent Palace, to the public for the first time. The Balearic regional government had asked for it, and visitors may enter whenever the royal family is away. In February 2024, diplomat Camilo Villarino replaced Alfonsín, who had served as Felipe's private secretary for almost 30 years. In April 2024, State lawyer María Dolores Ocaña Madrid replaced the duke of Abrantes. By the end of 2024, two more women had joined the senior ranks: Mercedes Araújo Díaz de Terán as Secretary-General and Carmen Castiella Ruiz de Velasco as Diplomatic Counselor.
In 2024, marking ten years on the throne, the king renewed his motto: "Servicio, compromiso y deber", meaning "Service, commitment and duty". The celebrations were discreet. He presented the Order of Civil Merit to 19 anonymous citizens, one from each Spanish region and from Ceuta and Melilla. The Princess of Asturias and Infanta Sofía surprised him with an improvised speech of congratulation. On the 19th of June 2025, the Royal Household announced his first nobility titles. Alfonsín became Marquess of Alfonsín and a Grandee of Spain, and tennis player Rafael Nadal became Marquess of Llevant de Mallorca. Swimmer Teresa Perales, singer Luz Casal, biochemist Carlos López Otín and photographer Cristina García Rodero also received titles.
The 2015 election left no party with enough seats to form a government, and months of talks produced no workable candidate. The king issued a royal decree dissolving parliament and calling new elections for June. It was the first time since the transition to democracy that an election was called under Article 99.5 of the Constitution, with the initiative in the king's hands instead of the prime minister's. After the second vote, some socialist MPs abstained to let the conservative Mariano Rajoy form a government. The king swore in the new cabinet on the 4th of November 2016.
On the 3rd of October 2017, as huge protests and a general strike gripped Catalonia, Felipe delivered an unusually strongly worded televised address. More than 12 million people watched. The protests followed the 2017 Catalan independence referendum, which Spanish authorities deemed illegal. He accused the organisers of acting "outside the law" and of "unacceptable disloyalty", and of "eroding the harmony and co-existence within Catalan society itself". He also warned that the referendum could put the economy of the whole north-east of Spain at risk.
Reactions were mixed. Party officials from the PP, PSOE and Ciudadanos applauded his commitment to legality. Leaders of Unidos Podemos and Catalunya en Comú called the speech "as unworthy as it was irresponsible". Some PSOE leaders were upset that he had made no call for dialogue between the Spanish and Catalan governments. After the speech, the government began the process of applying article 155 of the Constitution, which gives the central government special powers to intervene in a region. On the 27th of October 2017, the Senate approved direct rule in Catalonia. The government dismissed all Catalan authorities, dissolved the regional parliament and called early elections.
In May 2018, the Audiencia Nacional found the governing People's Party guilty as a beneficiary in some corruption cases. The socialist opposition leader Pedro Sánchez called a vote of no confidence, and the Congress of Deputies approved it on the 1st of June 2018. The king appointed Sánchez prime minister the next day. His minority government lasted about a year and a half and fell in February 2019, when it failed to pass the budget. The Socialists won the April 2019 election, but Sánchez could not agree terms with Podemos, so the king dissolved parliament again. The November election gave the same result, and this time Sánchez agreed to a coalition. Felipe swore in the new cabinet on the 13th of January 2020.
On the 18th of March 2020, residents of several Spanish cities banged pots and pans from their balconies during Felipe's televised speech on the COVID-19 pandemic. The protest aimed to pressure Juan Carlos to donate to public healthcare the €100 million he had allegedly obtained through Saudi kickbacks, an allegation that was ultimately dismissed. The boycott failed. More than 15 million citizens watched, the most watched speech by a monarch in Spanish history. In July, he led a memorial at the Royal Palace for the victims of the pandemic. In December 2021, he warned against complacency, saying "the risk has not disappeared."
Felipe tested positive for coronavirus on several occasions between 2020 and 2022 and had to quarantine. Queen Letizia took his place at the events she was constitutionally authorised to attend, such as awards and lunches. She could not stand in for duties tied to his constitutional role. A 2022 working meeting with Bosnia and Herzegovina's president, Željko Komšić, had to be postponed.
In 1975, Juan Carlos had made Franco's daughter, Carmen Franco, the Duchess of Franco. After her death in December 2017, her eldest daughter, María del Carmen Martínez-Bordiú y Franco, requested the succession. In 2018, the Izquierda Unida party wrote to Felipe asking him to suppress the title as a violation of the Historical Memory Law. The Official State Gazette published the grant of the dukedom to the eldest daughter on the 4th of July 2018. The title was abolished on the 21st of October 2022 under the Law of Democratic Memory.
In May 2023, local and regional elections went badly for the governing coalition, and Sánchez asked the king to dissolve Parliament. The People's Party, led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo, won the general election but fell short of a majority. On the 22nd of August 2023, after meeting the parties, Felipe asked Núñez Feijóo to try to form a government. The Congress of Deputies rejected his candidacy. After new meetings in early October, the king nominated the acting prime minister, Sánchez. Congress re-elected Sánchez on the 16th of November 2023, and Felipe swore in the cabinet on the 21st of November.
On the 3rd of November 2024, Felipe, Queen Letizia, Sánchez and Valencian president Carlos Mazón visited Paiporta, in the Valencian Community, to meet victims of the October 2024 floods. Residents threw mud and objects at them, and two bodyguards were injured. Sánchez had to be evacuated, but the monarchs stayed to listen to the complaints and requests. The king returned to the region on the 12th of November to check on the Armed Forces' work. On the 19th of November, the monarchs resumed the visit they had cancelled two weeks earlier.
Since June 2014, Felipe VI has made 158 official visits abroad, reaching 61 sovereign countries. Europe leads, with 24 countries in 91 visits. The Americas follow with 19 countries in 43 visits, then Asia with 13 countries in 17 visits and Africa with 5 countries in 7. He has never visited an Oceanian country as king. As prince, he visited Australia and New Zealand in 1990.
As king, Felipe represents Spain at every Ibero-American Summit, and he has attended all of them since taking the throne. He normally calls for unity in the region and closer ties with Spain and the European Union. Spain funds more than 60 per cent of the budget of the Ibero-American General Secretariat in Madrid, as of 2016. At the 2021 summit in Andorra la Vella, he became the first Spanish monarch to visit Andorra, a principality whose co-prince is the Spanish Bishop of Urgell. As prince, he visited every Latin American country except Cuba, and he made over 200 foreign trips in all. As of January 2024, he had attended more than 80 presidential inaugurations.
His second foreign trip as king, in July 2015, was to Portugal, where he met President Aníbal Cavaco Silva and Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho. He called the bond between the countries that of "brother countries", not only good neighbours. He recalled that his grandfather, the Count of Barcelona, had chosen Portugal as his place of exile. A real friendship grew with Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa. The Portuguese president made his first official visit abroad to Spain in March 2016, soon after Felipe attended his inauguration. In 2020, Rebelo de Sousa made a private visit to the Prado Museum and lunched with the king at Zarzuela Palace. He welcomed Leonor in Lisbon on her first international trip, and he also welcomed Sofía when she moved there to study. Rebelo de Sousa made his last international trip as president to Spain on the 20th of February 2026.
From the 11th to the 14th of November 2019, Felipe and Letizia made a state visit to Cuba for the 500th anniversary of the founding of Havana. Four royals had visited the island before: Infanta Eulalia in 1893, Infante Alfonso in 1937, Infante Juan in 1948 and Juan Carlos in 1999. Felipe's trip was the first state visit in history. The conservative opposition, Cuban dissidents and human rights groups criticised it as a legitimisation of the regime. Cheering crowds greeted the couple, and President Miguel Díaz-Canel and his wife, Lis Cuesta Peraza, welcomed them. The king awarded the historian Eusebio Leal the Grand Cross of the Order of Charles III. In Santiago de Cuba, at the Castillo de San Pedro de la Roca, they paid homage to the fallen of the Cuban War of Independence (1895-1898) and the Spanish-American War of 1898.
In 2015, under President Enrique Peña Nieto, Felipe made a state visit to Mexico. Relations soured after Andrés Manuel López Obrador was inaugurated in December 2018, an event the king attended. At the beginning of 2019, López Obrador asked Felipe for an apology for the events of the Spanish conquest of the Americas. The Royal Household passed the letter to the government, which firmly rejected the argument. In 2024, Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum banned Felipe from her inauguration on the 1st of October, citing his silence on the letter. The Spanish government said it would boycott the event altogether. In March 2026, at the National Archaeological Museum in Madrid, Felipe acknowledged "abuses" by Spanish conquistadors. He also praised the Crown's attempts to prevent them, citing the Laws of the Indies.
In September 2014, Felipe addressed the United Nations General Assembly for the first time. He referred to territorial integrity but did not name Gibraltar directly. Two years later, he called Gibraltar the "only existing colony in European territory" and invited the United Kingdom to end this "anachronism" with an agreed solution. Then came a state visit to the United Kingdom, from the 12th to the 14th of July 2017. It had been postponed twice, first by the political crisis in Spain in March 2016 and then by Britain's snap general election in May 2017. Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip received the couple at Horse Guards Parade with military honours. In Parliament, the king referred to Gibraltar, voicing confidence that the two governments could work towards arrangements acceptable to all. He also met the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn informally. He had a working lunch with Prime Minister Theresa May at 10 Downing Street. At Oxford, the couple saw a first edition of Don Quixote and a manuscript of the Codex Mendoza at the Weston Library.
In 1990, Felipe presented the Prince of Asturias Award to the Sephardic Jewish communities. In December 2015, he hosted a ceremony at the Royal Palace to celebrate the law granting Spanish nationality to the Sephardic Jews expelled from Spain in 1492 under the Alhambra Decree. He thanked them for preserving Ladino and welcomed them "back home". Jewish associations replied that they were no longer "Spaniards without a homeland." In January 2020, at the Fifth World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem, he was the only international leader to speak at the opening dinner. He said that "there is no room for indifference in the face of racism, xenophobia, hatred and antisemitism".
On the 9th of October 2023, Felipe condemned "with all firmness" the Hamas-led attack on Israel. In January 2024, he called for the release of hostages and defended a Palestinian state next to Israel. During a state visit to Egypt, he criticised the "unbearable" humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. At the eightieth session of the United Nations General Assembly, he asked for the "massacre" to stop and pushed for the two-state solution. The most recent trip in his list took him to San José, Costa Rica, on the 7th and the 8th of May 2026, for the inauguration of President Laura Fernández Delgado.
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Who is Felipe VI of Spain?
Felipe VI is the King of Spain, born on the 30th of January 1968 in Madrid. He is the only son of Juan Carlos and Sophia, and he took the throne on the 19th of June 2014 after his father abdicated.
When did Felipe VI become king?
Felipe VI became king at midnight on the 19th of June 2014, hours after his father sanctioned the abdication law. He was formally sworn in and proclaimed that morning in the Cortes.
How tall is King Felipe VI?
Felipe VI stands 1.97 metres tall, or 6 feet 5 and a half inches. He holds the Guinness World Record as the tallest reigning monarch in the world.
Who is Felipe VI married to?
Felipe VI is married to Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano, a former television journalist. They married on the 22nd of May 2004 at the Almudena Cathedral in Madrid, and they have two daughters, Leonor and Sofía.
What did Felipe VI say about the 2017 Catalan independence referendum?
Felipe VI condemned the referendum organisers in a televised address on the 3rd of October 2017, accusing them of "unacceptable disloyalty". More than 12 million people watched, and the Senate approved direct rule in Catalonia on the 27th of October 2017.
Did Felipe VI compete in the Olympics?
Felipe VI sailed for Spain in the Soling class at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. He carried the Spanish flag at the opening ceremony, and his crew finished sixth.
How much is Felipe VI worth?
Felipe VI made his personal assets public on the 25th of April 2022, valuing them at 2.6 million euros, or US$2.8 million. That makes him one of the least wealthy monarchs in the world.
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- 65NewsFelipe VI nombra a Jaime Alfonsín nuevo jefe de la Casa del ReyMábel Galaz — 23 June 2014
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- 109El PSOE destaca del mensaje del Rey la apelación a la concordia entre catalanes y españolesEuropa Press — 3 October 2017
- 110El rey acusa de deslealtad inadmisible a la GeneralitatJOSÉ Á CARPIO — 3 October 2017
- 111NewsSpain to impose direct rule as Catalonia leader refuses to back downSam Jones — 19 October 2017
- 112Spain to suspend Catalan autonomy19 October 2017
- 113Spanish Senate approves direct rule over Catalonia27 October 2017
- 114NewsSpain dissolves Catalan parliament and calls fresh electionsSam Jones et al. — 28 October 2017
- 115NewsCourt finds Spain's ruling party benefited from bribery schemeSam Jones — 24 May 2018
- 116Spain's Rajoy ousted in no-confidence vote1 June 2018
- 117Pedro Sánchez sworn in as Spain's prime minister2 June 2018
- 118Spanish prime minister calls snap election after budget fails to passDavid Reid — CNBC — 15 February 2019
- 119NewsSpain election: Socialists win amid far-right breakthroughBBC News — 28 April 2019
- 120NewsSpain's Sanchez rejects latest Podemos proposal for coalition government12 September 2019
- 121NewsEl Rey firma la disolución de las Cortes y la convocatoria de elecciones el 10-NJavier Casqueiro et al. — 24 September 2019
- 122NewsSpain's ruling socialists strike coalition deal with PodemosSam Jones — 12 November 2019
- 123The new faces in Spain's coalition government13 January 2020
- 126El mensaje del rey fue seguido por 15,6 millones de espectadores19 March 2020
- 128NewsSpanish king leads memorial to victims of Covid-19BBC — 16 July 2020
- 129NewsSpanish king's annual speech warns against virus complacencyABC News — 24 December 2021
- 130Spain's King Felipe VI self-isolating after COVID-19 contact23 November 2020
- 131NewsSpain's King Felipe tests positive for COVID-199 February 2022
- 132NewsThe King of Spain is forced to extend his quarantine after testing Covid positive againMaria Eugenia Alonso — 16 February 2022
- 134Doña Letizia sustituye al Rey en la inauguración de un congreso en Sevilla26 November 2020
- 136La 'regencia' en plena forma de la Reina Letizia por la cuarentena del Rey28 November 2020
- 138Felipe VI no puede suprimir el Ducado de Franco sin un proceso previo del Consejo de EstadoMonarquia Confidencial — 28 March 2018
- 139Título de Duque de FrancoMinistry of Justice
- 140JournalLey 20/2022, de 19 de octubre, de Memoria DemocráticaAgencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado — 20 October 2022
- 142NewsSpain's conservative PP elbows Socialists out in regional electionsBelén Carreño et al. — 28 May 2023
- 143NewsSpain swings right in local and regional elections29 May 2023
- 146Spanish election: Sánchez holds off right surge23 July 2023
- 147Spain's king begins meeting parties to form new governmentDeutsche Welle
- 148Spain's king asks conservative leader Feijóo to form government22 August 2023
- 149Spanish conservative leader loses first bid to become prime minister27 September 2023
- 150El rey fija la ronda de consultas para el 2 y 3 de octubre29 September 2023
- 152Spain's parliament confirms Pedro Sánchez as prime minister16 November 2023
- 153Sánchez se rodea de su núcleo duro para la nueva legislatura21 November 2023
- 154Spain flood survivors hurl mud at the royals and top government officialsJoseph Wilson et al. — 4 November 2024
- 156Aplazada la visita de los Reyes a Chiva tras los incidentes en PaiportaEuropa Press — 3 November 2024
- 158El Rey vuelve a Valencia solo y como jefe de las Fuerzas ArmadasBelén Domínguez Cebrián et al. — 12 November 2024
- 162King Felipe VI marks 10 tough years on Spain's throneFrance 24 — 19 June 2024
- 163King Felipe VI celebrates 10 years as Spain's head of state19 June 2024
- 164Relevo solemne de la Guardia Real en honor a Felipe VI19 June 2024
- 167La princesa Leonor, más glamourosa que nunca con un dos piezas con falda de estilo lencero y lentejuelasCote Villar — 19 June 2024
- 168Los Reyes sorprenden a sus hijas y al grupo de jóvenes con el que visitaban las Colecciones RealesEuropa Press — 19 June 2024
- 171Felipe VI concede por primera vez títulos nobiliarios para conmemorar el décimo aniversario de la ProclamaciónMarina Pina — 19 June 2025
- 172NewsEl Infante Felipe se declara atléticoAlfredo Relaño — 17 August 2014
- 173NewsUn atlético en la corte del Rey FelipePedro Simón — 6 June 2014
- 174NewsAtlético de Madrid Trivia: 25 facts about the football clubEvita Gorgorni — 28 May 2016
- 175Las aficiones de Felipe VI16 June 2014
- 176El rey Felipe VI hace 'Real' al rugby4 July 2023
- 177El Rey se une al grito de ¡campeones!18 May 2015
- 178El Rey asiste el domingo a la final de Roland Garros que jugará Nadal en ParísEuropa Press — 3 June 2022
- 180NewsUEFA says it will review pregame incidents at Champions League finalCindy Boren — 29 May 2022
- 182El rey Felipe VI y la familia real celebran con España la conquista del Mundial 2026Diario L — 2026-07-19
- 184NewsSpain's Queen Letizia to attend World Cup final against EnglandBBC News — 17 August 2023
- 185NewsLos Reyes inician un viaje de Estado a Finlandia en plena tensión con Rusia en la regiónBelén Domínguez Cebrián — 5 October 2026
- 186NewsPrimera visita del príncipe de Asturias a Australia y Nueva Zelanda23 June 1990
- 187Felipe VI llama a la "unidad" en Iberoamérica25 March 2023
- 188La histórica relación de la Corona con Iberoamérica26 March 2023
- 189España resta importancia a que no se rebaje su cuota para financiar la SEGIBLainformacion Com — 19 October 2013
- 190NewsLos copríncipes de Andorra reciben con honores a los Reyes de EspañaMariángel Alcázar — 25 March 2021
- 192Felipe VI, el firme puente de España con Iberoamérica14 January 2024
- 193Felipe VI elige Portugal para su primera visita oficial porque "no podía ser de otra manera"Virginia López — 7 July 2014
- 194El Rey Felipe recibe al presidente de Portugal en su primera visita a un país de la UEEuropa Press — 17 March 2016
- 195El Rey Felipe viaja hoy a Lisboa para la toma de posesión de Rebelo de SousaEuropa Press — 9 March 2016
- 196NewsLa gran amistad del Rey y el presidente portuguésMiquel Alberola — 24 February 2019
- 199NewsEl Rey: "No es admisible apelar a una supuesta democracia por encima del derecho"Miquel Alberola — 21 February 2019
- 202NewsAsí ha sido el intenso viaje oficial de la Princesa Leonor a PortugalM. J. S. — 12 July 2024
- 206NewsKing Felipe and Queen Letizia visit Cuba in first for Spanish royal familyIsambard Wilkinson — 26 August 2023
- 207Los Borbones y su romance de más de un siglo con La Habana9 November 2019
- 208El Rey pisa Cuba en una histórica visita de Estado12 November 2019
- 210'Viva Felipe!': Communist-run Cuba Welcomes Spanish King12 November 2019
- 211La Habana entrega al Rey el bastón de mando13 November 2019
- 213Reyes de España entregan a Leal Spengler Orden Carlos IIIOlivia Rodriguez
- 214Los Reyes rinden homenaje a los caídos españoles en Santiago de Cuba en 1898 al final de su viaje de EstadoEuropa Press — 14 November 2019
- 215NewsEl presidente Peña Nieto reafirma las buenas relaciones con España19 October 2013
- 217Spain's King Felipe makes historic visit to Mexico30 June 2015
- 218El Rey llega a México para asistir a la toma de posesión de López ObradorEuropa Press — 30 November 2018
- 219NewsMexico demands apology from Spain and the Vatican over conquestBBC News — 26 March 2019
- 220NewsMexican Call for Conquest Apology Ruffles Feathers in Spain. And Mexico.Raphael Minder et al. — 27 March 2019
- 221Madrid rejects Mexico's demand for an apology over Spanish conquestJavier Lafuente et al. — 26 March 2019
- 224López Obrador señala ahora al Rey Felipe VI por no contestarle una carta16 December 2022
- 225Mexico excludes Spanish king from president's swearing-inFrance 24 — 26 September 2024
- 228In UN speech, Spanish king allays concerns over lack of governmentMiquel Alberola et al. — 21 September 2016
- 229NewsSpanish royals' UK visit glosses over Brexit cracksBBC News — 11 July 2017
- 230Spanish state visit 2017gov.uk — 12 July 2017
- 231NewsThe Spanish State VisitEmma Goodey — British royal family — 12 July 2017
- 232NewsKing of Spain reveals hopes for new Gibraltar 'arrangements'Heather Stewart — 12 July 2017
- 233NewsThe King and Queen of Spain visit the Francis Crick InstituteFrancis Crick Institute — 17 July 2017
- 234NewsFrancis Crick Institute Welcomes the King and Queen of SpainInternational Labmate Ltd — 10 August 2017
- 235NewsKing and Queen of Spain visit OxfordUniversity of Oxford — 14 July 2017
- 236NewsSpain Honoring Jews 500 Years After Expulsion3 June 1990
- 237Spanish king welcomes Sephardic Jews back 'home,' says Spain missed themFox News — 3 January 2017
- 238Spanish king to Sephardic Jews: "How we missed you!"Miquel Alberola — 2 December 2015
- 239News132,000 descendants of expelled Jews apply for Spanish citizenshipSam Jones — 2 October 2019
- 240King Felipe VI omits to apologize for expulsion of the Jews from Spain23 February 2020
- 241La visita de Felipe VI a Israel como rey de España... y de Jerusalén22 January 2020
- 243El Rey advierte de que la solución a los problemas de España vendrá "de la unidad, nunca de la división"Miguel González — 20 October 2023
- 245La inusual declaración del rey de España sobre la "insoportable" crisis en Gaza16 September 2025
- 246El Rey defiende en Egipto la creación de un Estado palestino viable con Gaza, Cisjordania y Jerusalén EsteMarc Español — 17 September 2025
- 247NewsKing Felipe pleads with Israel to 'stop massacre and abhorrent acts' in GazaSam Jones — 24 September 2025
- 248World Law Congress Madrid 2019March 2019
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