Princess of Asturias, Princess of Gerona, Princess of Viana, Duchess of Montblanc, Countess of Cervera and Lady of Balaguer are the dignities of the current heiress of the Spanish Crown, HRH Leonor de Borbón y Ortiz. Although she is popularly known as Princess of Asturias, it should be remembered that the other titles are not a mere honorary adornment of her figure, but rather correspond to the historical foundations of the Spanish State, which could be considered, if I may say so, as another link in the monarchical project of present and future cohesion within and beyond the borders of our country.

Those who conferred a constitutional framework on Spain in the plenary session of the Executive Council during the Transition period created the most appropriate legal framework for the political stability of the new democratic system, as well as of its monarchy with regard to the question of its continuity. Both article 52.7 of the 1978 Constitution and Royal Decree 54/1977 sought to uphold the tradition of granting a degree scroll to the heir to the Crown. The Constitution, therefore, referred that "the Crown Prince, from his birth or from the time of the event that originates the call, will have the dignity of Prince of Asturias and the other titles traditionally linked to the successor of the Crown of Spain". A greater and extensive use prevailed, since then and almost to the present day, of the dignity of Asturias accompanied by a progressive rehabilitation of that of Gerona.

At the beginning of the 16th century, the historical kingdoms of Castile-Leon, Aragon and Navarre, with their singularity and territorial diversity formed over centuries, came under the umbrella of a single monarchical project led initially by the Trastámara, Ferdinand the Catholic, and later by his grandson, Charles I of Habsburg. In this way, a unitary political vertebration of sovereign spaces with very different traditions took place, which, in the last stage of the average, and in consonance with the projects of affirmation of the European monarchies, strengthened the political role of their dynasties. Needless to detail each of the complex contexts in which the heirs of the Crown of Aragon were endowed with a degree scroll identity degree scroll : Duke of Gerona and Count of Cervera, 1315 (Prince of Gerona, 1416); Duke of Montblanc, 1387; Lord of Balaguer, 1413. From the Crown of Castile: Prince of Asturias, 1388. And finally from the Kingdom of Navarre: Prince of Viana, 1423.

There is no doubt that, within these coordinates, where England (Prince of Wales, 1283) and France (Dauphin of Vienne, 1346) had also defined the dignities for their heirs in the medieval centuries, the monarchic institution of the Habsburgs and later of the Bourbons in Spain, became the depository in Modernity of honors and titles whose use and meaning could attend and transmit realities and political and ideological stakes whose management were capable of being transcendental.

One of these probably motivated the King of Navarre, Charles III the Noble (1387-1425), to create the degree scroll of Prince of Viana for his grandson, Charles, the first-born son of the marriage between his daughter Blanca and the prince Spanish Juan, from 1458 King of Aragon. Thus, on January 20, 1423, the king ratified, in a document drawn up by the Navarrese chancellery in Tudela, the establishment of the principality, which had previously been accompanied by the oath of the heir in the Cortes six months earlier. From then on, Charles would enjoy the annual rents of thirteen villas, headed by Viana, almost forty villages and eight castles of a principality that never constituted a homogeneous space.

When in 1993 Don Juan de Borbón y Battenberg received the Gold Medal of the Government of Navarre, a few months before his death at the Clinic of the University of Navarre in Pamplona, he was accompanied by his grandson, who gave the speech of gratitude on behalf of his grandfather. It was on that occasion that Don Juan plenary session of the Executive Council Felipe in his capacity as Prince of Asturias and Viana, in a country undergoing a plenary session of the Executive Council and international geopolitical and socio-culturaldevelopment and insertion. Centuries had gone by, as well as a recent history in the 20th century, where the historical titles of the heirs to the Crown were part of a scenario where they did not even reach the role of secondary actors in a changing and complex theater of operations.

The wisdom of those who created and promoted the Prince of Viana Awards in 1990, as well as the historical precedent of those who appealed to the degree program, such as the Cortes of Navarre in the 18th century, the City Council of Viana (1771, 1922 and 1982) or even some of the Bourbon monarchs (Charles III of Spain, 1771), invites us to think that the visit of Leonor is a unique occasion. But not exclusively a moment of formal or "official" presence of the heiress to the throne in the lands of the current Comunidad Foral; but the reason for the recovery and visibility, both in institutional and public spaces, of a dignity that indicates, almost like a Chinese box, the rich reality and historical weight of Navarre, also in the current and wide scenario of the challenges of Spain.