As fate would have it, the
Spanish Association Against Cancer
(AECC) was founded the same year that Queen Letizia was born.
For this reason, the wife of Felipe VI presided over this Friday the extraordinary concert of the
National Orchestra and Choir of Spain
, to show her support once again for the AECC.
Twenty minutes after seven in the evening the Queen arrived at
the National Auditorium
, with surprise, because King Felipe decided to accompany her to this act that was the reappearance of Doña Letizia after turning 50 on Thursday.
The King and Queen entered the auditorium with the audience on their feet and when the president of the AECC congratulated the Queen on her speech, they stood up again to give a long ovation that the orchestra accompanied with the chords of
Happy Birthday
.
Doña Letizia had spent her birthday working at Zarzuela, preparing the intense schedule for the coming week.
The Queen will travel with Don Felipe and Doña Sofía to London on Sunday, where they will pay their respects before the coffin of Elizabeth II in the funeral chapel and attend a reception at
Buckingham Palace
.
On Monday, the King and Queen will attend the state funeral for the English sovereign and then Doña Letizia will leave on a
Spanish Air Force
flight to New York without passing through Madrid.
The Queen is an advocate for children's mental health at
Unicef
, as well as Honorary President of Unicef Spain.
She so on Tuesday she will hold a meeting with experts from
the United Nations Children's Fund on mental health
.
Next, the Queen will hold a meeting with youth leaders involved in mental health initiatives and after lunch she will participate in an event organized by
FAO
and Unicef within the framework of the
UN
General Assembly , where Queen Letizia will speak.
The Queen will wrap up her engagements on Tuesday with a meeting with FAO Director-General
Qu Dongyu
.
On Wednesday they begin their commitments on cancer.
Doña Letizia will meet at the headquarters of
the Cervantes Institute in New York
with Spanish researchers specializing in this disease.
The Queen will then meet again with
Jill Biden
and deliver a few words on the occasion of
World Cancer Research Day
.
The wife of the president of the United States and the queen consort of Spain share the same concern about the need to investigate the disease.
In fact, when Jill Biden visited Spain for the
NATO summit
, the two women went together to the AECC headquarters, where Biden was able to see the projects in which the Spanish association was working, with whom Doña Letizia maintains a firm commitment.
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