The King Resumes Receiving Ambassadors' Credentials After An Eight-month Hiatus

MADRID, SPAIN - JANUARY 12: King Felipe VI (2l) and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, Jose Manuel Albares (1r), as they leave the ceremony to receive the credentials, at the Royal Palace, on 12 January, 2024 in Madrid, Spain. Felipe VI resumes today the traditional ceremony of presentation of credential letters by new ambassadors accredited in Spain, after a break of almost eight months following the electoral advance. The monarch has received the letters accrediting six ambassadors as representatives in Spain, in the first ceremony of this type since May 17. Then there were also six diplomats who complied with this protocol act. The new ambassadors of El Salvador, North Macedonia, Iran, Peru, Thailand and Angola paraded through the Royal Palace of Madrid today. (Photo By A. Perez Meca/Europa Press via Getty Images)