This picture was taken in the 1980s on the ocassion of Doña Sofía´s visit to Oxford University, when she received the degree of Doctor of Civil Law by Diploma (given only to Heads of State). It was taken at a reception-room in All Souls College, Warden´s Lodgings.

From left to right: Giles Barber, then Taylorian Librarian, expert on 18th c French printed books; Derek Flitter [in scarlet & blue], then a Research Fellow of The Queen's College, now at the University of Birmingham; Eric Southworth, Fellow of St Peter's, works mainly on late nineteenth-century and pre-Civil War twentieth-century Spanish writers; David Pattison, leading Spanish medievalist, Fellow of Magdalen; HM; Ron Truman, Student [= Fellow] of Christ Church, expert in Spanish Golden-Age intellectual history; Robert Pring-Mill [in scarlet & grey], Emeritus Fellow of St Catherine's, expert on medieval Catalan & modern Spanish-American literature; Fred Hodcroft, Emeritus Fellow of St Cross, distinguished philologist; Charles Powell, then Research Fellow of St Antony's (I think), expert on the Spanish Transición, now resident in Madrid; Ian Michael Professor of Spanish Studies and Fellow of Exeter College, best known for his work on medieval texts [in scarlet and gold].

As to the colours of people's robes, most of them are dressed in sober black gowns and scarlet hoods, as Masters of Arts, but Flitter has gone for the robes of a Doctor of Philosophy, the Queen wears her DCL outfit,  Pring-Mill is dressed for the 'higher degree' of Doctor of Letters, and Ian is kitted out as a Manchester Doctor of Philosophy.