Mayor of Seville, José Luis Sanz, with the Ambassador of the United Kingdom, Hugh Elliott

Last February, the Ambassador of the United Kingdom, Sir Hugh Elliott, received the selected oranges and lemons from the Carlos V gazebo, in the palatial complex of the Royal Alcazar of Seville, to make the bitter marmalade consumed in the British Royal House. Elliott now returns to Seville to perform a symbolic ceremony of return and deliver the already prepared marmalade to the mayor of the city, José Luis Sanz.

Bitter marmalade consumed in the British Royal House is made from the oranges of the Royal Alcazar of Seville, a tradition that was introduced by Queen Victoria Eugenia of Battenberg, wife of the Spanish monarch Alfonso XIII. She was born at the Scottish residence of Balmoral, the summer residence of the English royal family.

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