King Felipe and his wife received foreign ambassadors to Spain at the Royal Palace on Wednesday, January 25. A meeting in which one of them deviated from the protocol.
He tried to remain indifferent, but his eyes betrayed him. Spain’s Leticia, indeed, seems to have expressed her displeasure during a meeting with the protocol body, which was organized on Wednesday, January 25, at the Royal Palace in Madrid.
King Felipe VI and his wife did receive foreign ambassadors in their country and greeted them one by one. Except for the ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Hassan Ghashghavi, who refused to shake the Queen’s hand. This is evidenced by a Twitter video published by the Spanish site Another debate.
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Iranian custom
We see the ambassador shake Felipe VI’s hand before stepping in front of Letizia of Spain, placing her hand over her heart and leaving. A sequence where the sovereign glares at her. “Here is the rudeness of the Iranian ambassador to Queen Letizia during the reception of the diplomatic corps,” the media wrote in the caption of the video, which has more than 22,000 views.
If these images had provoked strong reactions, Hasan Ghashghavi would have actually conformed to Iranian custom, which forbids physical contact between men and women unless they are married or from the same family, he recalls. Libertad Digital:. “The gesture of raising the right hand to the heart is a common thing among diplomats,” the media reports. Not sure if Queen Letizia took too kindly to this tradition.
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Source: Le Figaro
