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Felipe VI (Spanish: [feˈlipe ˈseksto]; [c] Felipe Juan Pablo Alfonso de Todos los Santos de Borbón y Grecia; born 30 January 1968) is King of Spain.In accordance with the Spanish Constitution, as monarch, he is head of state and commander-in-chief of the Spanish Armed Forces, holding the military rank of captain general, [3] [4] and also plays the role of the supreme representation of Spain ...
The current king, Felipe VI, was proclaimed King of Spain on 19 June 2014, having the following symbols displayed in front of him: The commemorative crown (i.e. the corona tumular ) bearing the marks of 1775, possibly made for the funeral of Elisabeth Farnese , queen consort of King Felipe V .
Coronation of King Ferdinand V of Bohemia in 1836. Vratislaus II of Bohemia was the first crowned ruler of Bohemia. During the Middle Ages, it was held that enthronement would make a person Duke of Bohemia and that only coronation would make a person King of Bohemia. [4] St. Vitus Cathedral was the coronation church. [5]
The transition to democracy took place in the early years of his reign, making Spain no longer the only non-communist dictatorship left in Europe. The new king assumed the project of the reformist sector of Franco's political elite that, facing the conservatives, defended the need to introduce gradual changes in the fundamental laws so that the new monarchy would be accepted in Europe as a whole.
King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain have confirmed their attendance at the coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla.. On 11 April, the Spanish royal family joined the line-up of ...
In Spain, since his abdication, Juan Carlos has usually been referred to as the rey emérito ('king emeritus') by the press. [1] [2] Juan Carlos is the son of Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona, and grandson of Alfonso XIII, the last king of Spain before the abolition of the monarchy in 1931 and the subsequent declaration of the Second Spanish ...
Carlos Alvarez/Getty Images. Queen Letizia, aka Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano, is the wife of King Felipe VI of Spain. After marrying her husband (formerly Prince Felipe of Asturias) in May 2004, she ...
Alfonso XIII [a] (Spanish: Alfonso León Fernando María Jaime Isidro Pascual Antonio de Borbón y Habsburgo-Lorena; French: Alphonse Léon Ferdinand Marie Jacques Isidore Pascal Antoine de Bourbon; 17 May 1886 – 28 February 1941), also known as El Africano or the African due to his Africanist views, was King of Spain from his birth until 14 April 1931, when the Second Spanish Republic was ...