Serena Williams Wins 2025 Princess of Asturias Award

Serena Williams traveled to Oviedo, Spain, to receive the 2025 Princess of Asturias Award for Sports, saying she felt 'deeply honored' to join a legacy of recipients. At events around the ceremony she turned heads in a caramel-brown Magda Butrym midi and a red, floor-length draped gown and broke into an impromptu dance with bagpipers that she later shared on Instagram. Williams has said she lost roughly 31 pounds after using a GLP-1 medication reported as Zepbound, which she described as leaving her physically and mentally lighter and helping address postpartum weight struggles following the births of her two daughters. Her husband, Alexis Ohanian, praised the honor on social media. Outlets noted the award in the context of her storied career, which includes 23 Grand Slam singles, 14 doubles titles and four Olympic gold medals.