Overview
- Spain’s Council of Ministers was informed at the King’s request, with formalization to follow by Royal Decree and publication in the Official State Gazette.
- Former prime minister Felipe González and constitutional jurists Miquel Roca and Miguel Herrero y Rodríguez de Miñón are the honorees.
- The Order of the Golden Fleece is a chivalric order founded in 1430, held by the Spanish sovereign and returned upon the holder’s death.
- Under Felipe VI, the collar had previously been granted only to Queen Sofía and Princess Leonor.
- Royal Household sources frame the decision as an institutional reaffirmation of the democratic Transition and national service.