The Foundation is to post videos with reflections and messages from the Laureates to mark the coming of age of Her Royal Highness The Princess of Asturias

To mark the coming of age of Her Royal Highness The Princess of Asturias, the Princess of Asturias Foundation is to post a series of videos with excerpts from speeches by the Laureates, as well as messages from these about the Princess of Asturias Awards and Princess Leonor herself. The videos will be posted between 1st and 9th November.

There will be eighteen videos in all, containing excerpts from speeches by the Laureates, words dedicated to the Princess of Asturias and her future role, and reflections on the personal impact that the Awards have had on the Laureates and their experiences in Asturias.

Regarding the Honorary President of the Foundation, 2022 Princess of Asturias Laureate for International Cooperation Ellen MacArthur states that “if you have a voice, as she has, you can use that voice to change things”. In the speech she gave upon receiving the Award, 2021 Princess of Asturias Laureate for Communication and Humanities Gloria Steinem expressed her excitement at it being the first time she had received “an award in a woman’s honor”.

Svante Pääbo, 2018 Princess of Asturias Laureate for Technical and Scientific Research and subsequent Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 2022, expressed the importance that receiving the Award meant for him. An experience that filmmaker Martin Scorsese, 2018 Princess of Asturias Laureate for the Arts, described as “a beautiful feeling of continuity of culture”.

The Laureates have also shown their affection for Asturias and Spain. 2011 Prince of Asturias Award for Literature Leonard Cohen confessed that much of his work “comes from this soil, from Spain”. Oceanographer Sylvia Earle, 2018 Princess of Asturias Laureate for Concord, also thanked Asturias for its wonderful hospitality, while Juan Ignacio Cirac, 2006 Prince of Asturias Laureate for Technical and Scientific Research, points out in his speech that “the Foundation’s capacity for recognising the work of people who are a global example is an element of quality for Spain”.

Complete list of Laureates in the order their video will be posted:

• Juan Ignacio Cirac, Technical and Scientific Research 2006
• Gloria Steinem, Communication and Humanities 2021
• Ellen MacArthur, International Cooperation 2022
• Shigeru Ban, Concord 2022
• Siri Hustvedt, Literature 2019
• Juan Mayorga, Literature 2022
• Lindsey Vonn, Sports 2019
• Michael Sandel, Social Sciences 2018
• Peter Brook, The Arts 2019
• Katalin Karikó, Technical and Scientific Research 2021
• Martin Scorsese, The Arts 2018
• Svante Pääbo, Technical and Scientific Research 2018
• Carmen Linares and María Pagés, The Arts 2022
• Sylvia Earle, Concord 2018
• Eliud Kipchoge, Sports 2023
• Sandra Myrna Díaz, Technical and Scientific Research 2019
• Leonard Cohen, Literature 2011
• Meryl Streep, The Arts 2023