<h6><strong>The Diplomat</strong></h6> <h4><strong>Six new ambassadors to Spain will present their Credentials to the King on Monday, in a ceremony that, as is traditional, will take place at the Royal Palace. The question on Saturday afternoon was whether the ambassadors will be transported from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in period carriages or in the Cadillac Broughams, which are available to the National Heritage.</strong></h4> The ambassadors summoned to present their Credentials to the head of State are, as The Diplomat reported, those of<strong> Belgium, Didier Charles J. Nagant de Deuxchaisnes; Sweden, Per Arne Hjelmborn; Cyprus, Michalis Ioannou; Latvia, Janis Zlamets; South Korea, Soosuk Lim; and Andorra, Eva Descarrega García.</strong> All of them have been told by their colleagues abou<strong>t the traditional display</strong> of the journey from the Santa Cruz Palace to the Royal Palace, <strong>with carriages with postilions, grooms, footmen and coachmen,</strong> which is one of the city's tourist attractions. However, to the disappointment of the ambassadors who have presented Credentials in the last two years, their journey has not taken place in a carriage, but in <strong>an old Cadillac Brougham</strong>, which Patrimonio Nacional, dependent on the Ministry of the Presidency, puts at their disposal and which are accompanied on their journey by a horse escort. The problem, as <a href="https://www.eldebate.com/espana/casa-real/20241020/sorprendente-mala-suerte-caballos-palacio-real-llevan-dos-anos-participar-ceremonias_236931.html"><em>revealed by El Debate</em></a>, after consulting Patrimonio Nacional, is that, currently, there are only "16 horses in the Royal Stables." The source said that two of these horses “are out of service for veterinary reasons and another three are being trained,” and added: “To cover the ceremonial protocols we must ensure that there is a number of horses in reserve in case there is any last-minute unforeseen event on the day of the official ceremony.” According to this information, the Royal Stables have stables for 22 horses, two years ago there were 19 and now there are only 16, so that in recent times there have been six losses and National Heritage has only covered three, so there will hardly be enough horses in reserve if they are not replaced when they approach retirement age. The newspaper points out that, if there are still three horses in training, there has been a problem of lack of foresight at National Heritage, which has been training horses for centuries and should foresee how long it takes them to learn. The 16 horses that currently live in the Royal Stables have not left the Royal Palace for more than two years. Every morning their caretakers brush them, put their headbands on, screw on their feather tufts, play noises and music for them to get them used to the street, and take them out to train for hours in the gardens of Campo del Moro, pulling a fake carriage called the tamer, which weighs 3,000 kilos.
