On April 24, King Felipe and Queen Letizia held a lunch at Madrid Royal Palace in honor of Spanish writer Luis Mateo Diez, who is the awardee of Miguel de Cervantes Prize 2023. Luis Mateo Diez and his family, government authorities, editors, critics, teachers and authors attended the lunch. The Miguel de Cervantes Prize is awarded annually to honour the lifetime achievement of an outstanding writer in the Spanish language.
Wow! What a classic and gorgeous dress, so noble and elegant. Q. Letizia looks fantastic!
ReplyDeleteLetizia's dress is nice, but possibly too plain and even bordering on the 'blah' side of things. The true attention grabber for me is the lady in red! Style and colour to the max.
ReplyDelete- Anon 9:13
Blah..It has a lot of embroidery you cannot ser in these photos..a piece of art..
DeleteThe President of that Autonomous Community of Madrid, Isabel Diaz-Ayuso.
DeleteI like the dress, but It is a lunch at about 2 pm....
Gorgeous.
ReplyDelete100% Agree.
DeleteThis is a beautiful dress especially the full skirt. Unfortunatley the pictures are mostly at a distance and we don't get to see some of the details up close. But from far Letizia looks great. The dress fits her perfectly and the colour is also very flattering.
ReplyDeleteAnother stunning outfit from Q.L. The pleating of the skirt is perfectly done and the subtle appliqué really elevates the look. I wonder who the designer is? (V.M.)
ReplyDeleteThe brand is Pedro del Hierro. The designar is Nacho Aguayo.
DeleteShe looks pretty.
ReplyDeleteWell chosen for the occasion.
DeletePerfect.
Love the soft colour.
The Queen does her job well.
Can anybody give the name of the designer/fashion house?
Deadeggs...she wore the same dress in Sweden, last years!! The designer is Nacho Aguado, who works for Pedro del Hierro.
DeleteThanks Anon 11:50 for the information.
DeleteLooks like it's 100% Spanish.
Going to do some homework on this young designer.
A classy and elegant dress.
ReplyDeleteAgreed. And this time the length of the dress is perfect for the lower heeled shoes. A classy look indeed,
DeleteThis is a beautiful dress. I feel it might be better up close with more visibility. Hard to tell from a distance.
ReplyDeleteThe woman in that red dress looks gorgeous. I admire queen Letizia but now she looks like a little girl in that pale, wide dress, especially in the same photo with the red dress.
ReplyDeleteI disagree. Yes, the lady in the red dress looks stunning - and so does Letizia. Each of them in her own way. I don't see any competition.
DeleteI disagree too.
Delete@Coralie. I never mentioned a competition. Just saying my own opinion, nothing else. You disagree and it's fine for me.
DeleteLovely dress and the lady in red looks Good too
ReplyDeleteSuperbe robe . J adore les plis danseues de la jupe.
ReplyDeleteFroufrou
J'aime bien l'expression "les plis danseuses". On en apprend tous les jours ici. Le français n'est pas ma langue maternelle.
DeleteLovely dress. Everything has been said. A pity the embroidery is not visible enough. I think the dress looks even better in reality. What I do not like are the pointy shoulders. I do not like pointy shoulders on blazers by Alexander McQueen either. Well, I suppose it is a fashion novelty just like the wide trousers and balloon sleeves. The length of Queen Letizia's dress is good too. I like her shoes, not too high, not too flat and in a good color.
ReplyDeleteThe lady in red is not looking bad, but is from a complete different category. It cannot be compared with Queen Letizia's dress which has more class. The red dress is good to participate at festivities by people in the streets, when the flamenco dancers are present and are bringing their music and showing their dance style to the tourists.
LOL..in Madrid there are NOT flamenco dancers ...that is only in Andalucía, only one region of Spain and there are 17...autonomous communities... Isabel Diaz-Ayuso is the President of Madrid..dancers dance the "chotis"..
DeleteThe stereotype about "flamenco" very old...In most Spain people haye It...as I said, It is an Andalucía thing
I didn't say there are Flamenco dancers in Madrid. I saw them as well at the Costa Brava and at the Costa del Sol. To me the dress make me think at the festivities I saw there. When I am in Spain I am there as a tourist and I like to look at the dancers and to listen at the music at night when it is too hot to sleep. All the rest I don't know nothing about it and certainly not about your politicians. Why you people always has to be so aggressive when the comments are saying something like I said. I am just an observer and I see what I like and what I like less. That's all, have a nice day.
DeleteAnon 08:49.... because you e to Spain but you are not able to learn anything about the country. I wonder how you have seen flamenco in the Costa Brava when It is Catalonia and there not even speak Spanish if not Catalán language. Some tourist are a bit ridículos as if I would say that in Germany they dance Tango...maybe there is a place...but It not normal..
DeleteYes...and in Berlin they dance "tarantela", because I eat at an Italian restaurant..."when you are in Spain you like to look at the dancers"....maybe It was a dance from Cuba..and you tought It was flamenco...LOL...
Delete@26/4 10:30
DeleteAnonymous. It is not because I am not interested in foreign politics that I do not know anything about the countries in which I travel. I have seen The flamenco dancers and singers and their little orchestra on an evening at my hotel in Lloret de Mar. The group must have been invited by the managers there to perform for the guests of the hotel where I stayed. Groups with musicians and dancers and singers they do travel in their country and abroad, how do you expect they can earn money if they cannot travel to perform elsewhere than in their own town ?.
I know they speak Catalan at the Costa Brava, but in the hotel and the shops many people understood French or English.
Magnifique robe dont la jupe a de larges plis !
ReplyDeleteI already gave my comments on the dresses, but I forgot something. I was also looking at the marble floors in the palace. The combination of brown/red marble (we call it marbre Napoléon) with the white (Carrare ?) marble is so beautiful. On the contrary what I do not like anymore is the design and pattern of the wall coverings and curtains, in silk I suppose. In some of the royal palaces or castles like in Sweden, Denmark, Belgium and The Netherlands decorations became more and more simple and plain. Probably because the younger generation of monarchs who are living in these castles prefer a modern touch. In Belgium the Royal (working) Palace in Brussels is also still decorated according the old classic decorations that were there from the beginning. It has been renovated during the years but always in the same classic style. In the castle of Laeken on the other hand where King Philippe and his family live, the walls have plain colors and the curtains are white or in another light color that goes well with the wall of the room. I know in Spain it is different maybe the state decides what colors and style must be used in case renovation works has to be done. I think in the U.K. everything remains the same like it was 100 years ago. Of course these impressions are only based on pictures and partly on visits when parts of the castles are open for the tourists during Summer holidays. The rooms occupied by the Royal families remain closed and cannot be photographed.
ReplyDeleteIn Spain "Patrimonio Nacional" Nacional Heritage entity.
DeleteThe assets managed by this entity include palaces, parks, gardens, monasteries, decorative arts of various types (furniture, metalwork, porcelain, watches, etc.)and paintings by great masters such as Goya, Velázquez, Tiziano, El Greco , Mengs and Salvador Dalí.[5] Every official gift that the king receives also becomes part of the National Heritage
Mezclas cosas que no tienen nada que ver. En el Palacio Real de Madrid no vive nadie, se usa para ceremonias y grandes eventos. La decoración de las paredes son de seda y terciopelo y están en perfecto estado, así que sería ridículo sustituir obras de arte antiguas por cosas modernas. ¿También habría que quitar los muebles, alfombras y tapices?
DeleteYo he visto las "estancias modernas" de otras familias reales y me han parecido horribles, pero no son mi casa.
Este es un vestido repetido, pero sigue siendo precioso, muy delicado y primaveral, con un movimiento de falda fantástico y unas flores aplicadas muy románticas. El maquillaje y el cabello de Letizia son perfectos, como de costumbre.
DeleteSobre las paredes de seda, porcelanas, cuadros, tapicería y demás, va más allá de la pura decoración. Son obras de arte de los siglos XVII y XVIII de valor incalculable que no solo no se sustituyen, si no que se invierte en su conservación.
DeleteExcuse me, @ Anonymous 25/4/24 at 13:48.
DeleteI get the impression that you do not really know just a single thing of what you are talking about.
It is crystal clear you never toured/ visited any place , castle or royal estate whatever and never went anywhere outside your own boundaries.
Even less so did you ever see any piece of furniture inside royal palaces , mansions , castles and so on.
Yet again, you do not need to give any proof whatsoever as it is quite obvious you are depicting in your mind something which does not exist in reality.
Yet again too, please, you should tour places and see things with your own two eyes before writing such comments bordering on the ridiculous.
It seems you have a penchant for concocting nationalities, languages and landmark features you do not have any clue about.
Why don' t you stop producing all this stuff generated JUST from your own imagination ?
Thank you.
@ Angie 19:10
DeleteYou didn't understand what I was talking about. In the Royal Palace in Brussels nobody lives their either except a concierge maybe. It is King Philippe's working palace, where his office is. It is used for ceremonies and big events too. I said, there the decoration style hasn't change much. It has the classic style it has since the beginning before 1830 and before the beginning of the monarchy in Belgium. In the Castle of Laeken the king and his family can use a part of the castle for their own use, which they can decorate like they wish, but there are also reception rooms, conference rooms etc... which are not used for their personal needs.
The rooms you saw of other royal families are probably a mixture of rooms they use for personal use and rooms which are only used for official visits. In the Netherlands for example they have several castles and palaces they can use for official visits and big events.
I'd say chapeau if the deco in the Royal Palace in Madrid never had to be renovate and is still perfect after how many years ? You start to talk about pieces of art like furniture, carpets, wall coverings, I didn't. Do you really think that in the other royal palaces and castles they don't have that ? That they throw all that ancient art away? It is perfectly possible to mix antiques with modern art. One just has to call a good architect specialized in decoration and decoration techniques.
I really like Letizia’s dress. The color, fabric, the length are all very becoming. But like someone mentioned before, the pointy shoulders do not look good on her. They give the appearance of her hunching her shoulders. In addition, this haircut hides her neck. I do love the lower heels and the shorter hair but here, the look of the shoulders and neckline do not work to her advantage.
ReplyDeleteGreetings from Prince Marrio Suber of Scotland former President of the United States of America and king of Israel and Kenya France Italy Netherlands Poland Norway Japan China and Sweden. Thanks Spain for the immeasurable financial gift
ReplyDeleteExcellent. Less is more, elegant, on point. Ayuso's dress is jarring.
ReplyDeleteCompletely agree. Letizia looks regal, the woman in red dress looks jarring. Borderline vulgar.
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