Posted by John in Assen on January 29, 2013, 1:37 pm, in reply to "Re: To Lucas"
The Spanis Statevisit was commented on by the Spanish King once in an interview. The visit was already planned and Juliana's announcement on the 31st of Januari 1980 made Juan-Carlos reach for the phone at once offering her his well wishes and suggest a postponement of the visit. The Queen wouldn't hear of it and the State-Visit went ahead as planned (march 1980) An historic visit indeed as you mentioned, Lucas!
Well it could ofcourse come to a state-visit before the 30th of april but after all the glitter we saw in Brunei and Singapore I don't think so. I think HM in a way said her goodbyes on those 2 state-visits. I already thought it peculiar: 3 tiara-events in 4 days... But it was Beatrix saying farewell to her international role...