List of ambassadors of Spain to the United Kingdom

This is a List of Ambassadors of Spain to England and to the United Kingdom

Introduction edit

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor sent ambassadors to England representing the Empire, as well as Spain. When the Catholic Reformation began, Spain was in the opposite camp to Protestant England.

In the second half of the seventeenth century, Spain sometimes supported the English because, like them, it feared the hegemony in Europe that France and its king Louis XIV had achieved after the Treaty of the Pyrenees (1659).

After the Frenchman Philip of Anjou became King of Spain in 1700, during most of the eighteenth century, Spain again stood on the side of France, and was an opponent of Great Britain. It was not until the French Revolution that the two conservative countries, Spain and Great Britain, reconciled against the revolutionaries.

Spanish ambassadors, envoys and ministers plenipotentiary to England (1514–1707) edit

15th century edit

16th century edit

17th century edit

Spanish ambassadors, envoys and ministers plenipotentiary to Great Britain edit

18th century edit

19th century edit

20th century edit

21st century edit

  • 1999-2004 Santiago de Mora-Figueroa y Williams
  • 2004-2008 Carlos Miranda y Elío
  • 2008-2009 Carles Casajuana i Palet
  • 2009-2012 José Ignacio Carbajal Gárate
  • 2012-2017 Federico Trillo-Figueroa[2]
  • 2017-2021 Carlos Bastarreche
  • 2021- José Pascual Marco Martínez [3]

See also edit

References edit