On January 12, 2023, King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain visited King's Island (Isla del Rey), an islet in the Port of Mahon that was expropriated in 1722 to build a hospital. King Felipe and Queen Letizia also visited the hospital museum. King's Island, also called Hospital Island, is a small island in the middle of the main navigable entry channel to Mahon on the northeastern side of Menorca in the Mediterranean Sea.