After meeting the President of the Republic of Angola, João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço and the First Lady, Ana Afonso Dias at their residence, King Felipe and Queen Letizia of Spain had a quick change of outfit and headed for the second leg of the day one of Angola visit.
King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain visited the Economic Bank, where together with the Angolan ministers of Foreign Affairs and Higher Education, Science Technology and Innovation. The Royal couple attended a presentation of the International University of Cuanza, which was inaugurated in Cuito in 2021 and which is integrated into the network of institutions collaborating with the Ibero-American University Foundation (FUNIBER).
The University of Cuanza is a Spanish-Angolan cooperation project, with a pan-Iberian vocation, which aims to offer students a comprehensive education based on excellence and commitment to people. Within its learning model, UNIC promotes the teaching of the Spanish language in all its courses, with the aim of providing language skills to students who will carry out double degrees with the European University of the Atlantic.
During the visit, King Felipe and Queen Letizia inaugurated the Joan Miro exhibition “El Cántico del Sol y Las Maravillas Acrostáticas”, made up of 52 original works divided into two series, which make up the Cultural Work of FUNIBER. The first is entitled “Maravillas con variaciones acrosticas en el jardín de Miró” and is a well-known series of lithographs that was published in a book folder with poems by the writer Rafael Alberti in 1975. The verses are inspired by Miró and his companion Pilar, evoking an imaginary garden full of roses, and lavender, and inhabited by butterflies, crickets and ants.
The day ended with the King and Queen hosting a reception for the Spanish diaspora in Angola. There are at least 500 registered-born Spaniards in Angola. Many of them were present at the reception to talk about their lives away from home.
Speaking at the event, King Felipe reflected on the historical ties of both countries and the commitment to strengthen the ties for the future too.
Heading towards Queen Letizia Style – For the second part of the day Queen Letizia once again reverted back to her professional style in monochrome.
Queen Letizia was wearing a white wrap-style Carolina Herrera Midid dress. The outfit was based on this long dress in the same style.
Made from crafted the bodice has a wrap style with wrist-length sleeves and a black skirt with a tie-belt.
Letizia teamed up the outfit with her black Carolina Herrera slingback pumps
and Carolina Herrera ‘Astrud’ Clutch.
The surprise element of the look was the black earrings that she had in her wardrobe for more than a decade. They were never identified.
Her Coreterno ring was not missing either.
