They gave them alfajores cordobeses to the kings and asked them to send them more

The surprise could not be greater: around midnight on Tuesday, on arrival at the Sheraton Hotel, the advisers of the Kings Felipe VI and Letizia communicated with the representatives of the Cordoba company Alfajores Chammas to ask them several boxes to hand over to the True Family, on their return to Spain.

On their arrival, the kings found two gifts in their room (a ceremonial present they sent to all the official participants of the International Congress of the Spanish language): alfajores for each one of them. Letizia opened one of the boxes and, after trying it, asked to be contacted immediately.

Pedro Álvarez, representative of the company and great-great-grandson of the founder Augusto Chammas, still does not realize what happened. "We give the King and the Queen, like all of the Cile's guests, a gift to each," he said. Letizia contacted the hotel staff to ask the creators of the alfajor to send him eight boxes to take to Spain.

After this communication at midnight, Álvarez went to the factory at six in the morning to prepare the shipment that he took to the Sheraton. "The gifts are for the royal family, she wanted to buy the boxes, which we do not think to charge," he added.

On Wednesday, after overcoming all the strict security tests, they sent the company's representative to the royal halls, where he left the gifts as they left for the Theater of the Liberator.

"There were all the police and guards you could imagine, and me, it was incredible," Alvarez said.

The theme of the alfajores generated an argument that Chammas definitely won. Some representatives of the committee that accompanies the Spanish monarchs badured that they were receiving calls from other well-known brands, in order to offer them gifts. "Letizia chose ours," laughs Alvarez proudly.

The company of Chammas of Cordoba celebrates this year and a half century and is the true inventor of the alfajor as we know it.