Overview
- Open to the public Wednesday, it is the gallery’s first monographic exhibition dedicated to a Spanish queen, reassessing Ena’s modernizing role.
- The display draws on Patrimonio Nacional and major lenders including the Prado, Museo Sorolla, the Royal Collection Trust and London’s National Portrait Gallery.
- Highlight pieces include the Flor de Lis tiara, personal correspondence and attire, period portraits and the mahogany carriage used on her wedding day.
- Nearly 200 works were restored for the presentation, and Santander lent a newly conserved 1915 Manuel Benedito painting of Alfonso XIII’s children.
- The inauguration coincides with TVE’s new series Ena, and the Royals later joined an APRAMP event at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos marking culinary microcredential diplomas for 15 trafficking survivors.