The Spanish Royal Household is preparing a visit by Felipe VI to Ceuta and Melilla, Spanish autonomous cities in North Africa. The head of the Royal Household, an expert on Morocco, will coordinate this preparation with the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños.
The Princess of Asturias, Leonor, was supposed to be at the center of the institution's news at the beginning of the new school year. However, the social, political, and economic crisis triggered in Ceuta on July 30, after the entry of 80,000 migrants from Morocco, forced the Royal Household to also focus attention on this situation.
Felipe VI has never visited Ceuta or Melilla, even when he was Prince of Asturias. The monarch's visit to these territories comes in a context of tension following the events of July, which caused a severe crisis in the autonomous city.
