King Juan Carlos will travel to Madrid to attend the wedding of José Luis Martínez Almeida and Teresa Urquijo. Those are his plans since last Monday, when he made the final decision to go and informed the couple.

The wedding will be held next Saturday in the parish of San Francisco de Borja and will bring together the leadership of the Popular Party and the Spanish aristocracy. Five hundred guests are expected at a wedding in which the bride is the granddaughter of Teresa de Borbón, first cousin of Juan Carlos I.