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| Birth Name(s) : Letizia Ortiz |
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Letizia, Princess of Asturias (née Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano; September 15, 1972, Oviedo, Spain) is the wife of Felipe, the Prince of Asturias, who is heir apparent to the Spanish throne. She is styled HRH The Princess of Asturias.
Letizia has two sisters:
- Telma Ortiz Rocasolano, (born October 25, 1973) an economist who works for Médicos Sin Fronteras.
- Érika Ortiz Rocasolano, (April 9, 1975 - February 6, 2007) had a Fine Arts degree and worked as a literary agent. On 7 February 2007, she was found dead in her apartment in Madrid. In recent months, she had taken a leave of absence from work due to severe depression. Her premature death was probably due to an intentional prescription drug overdose. She is survived by her young daughter, Carla.
During her studies, Letizia worked for the Asturian daily newspaper La Nueva España and later for the newspaper ABC and the news agency EFE . After completing her studies, she spent some time in Guadalajara, Mexico, working at the newspaper Siglo XXI. After returning to Spain, she worked for the Spanish version of the economic channel Bloomberg before moving to the news network CNN+.
In 2000, she moved to and TVE, where she started working for the news channel 24 Horas. In 2002, she anchored the weekly news report program Informe Semanal and later the daily morning news program Telediario Matinal on the TVE . In August 2003, a few months before her engagement to Felipe, Letizia was promoted to anchor of the TVE daily evening news program Telediario, the most viewed newscast in Spain.
In 2000 Letizia reported from Washington, D.C. on the presidential elections. In September 2001 she broadcast live from Ground Zero following the 9/11 attacks in New York and in 2003 she filed reports from Iraq following the war. In 2002 she sent several reports from Galicia in northern Spain following the ecological disaster when the oil tanker Prestige sank.
On 1 November 2003 to the surprise of many, the Royal Household announced Letizia's engagement to the Prince of Asturias. Afterwards, she moved to live in a wing of the La Zarzuela Palace until the day of her wedding.
The wedding took place on May 22, 2004 in the Cathedral Santa María la Real de la Almudena in Madrid. It was the first royal wedding in this cathedral, which was consecrated by the Pope in 1993. It had been nearly a century since the capital celebrated a royal wedding, as the present king and queen married in Athens, and the prince's sisters, Infanta Elena and Infanta Cristina, married in Seville and Barcelona respectively.
After the wedding, she moved with her new husband to his residence, a 3,150-square meter palace built within the La Zarzuela Palace grounds.
It was announced on May 8, 2005 that Letizia was pregnant and on October 31, 2005 at 1:46am at the Ruber Clinic in Madrid, she gave birth to a girl, Infanta Leonor, the first child for the couple, who was baptised on January 14, 2006. The godparents were the King and Queen of Spain.
As for Infanta's future as a possible monarch, The Prince of Asturias was quoted in the Spanish Herald, when asked by a reporter if "a queen has born," the prince answered, "For now a princess has born. But the logic of the times means that if the reform that the administration is planning takes place, she will be."
On September 25, 2006 the Royal House announced that the couple was expecting their second child in May 2007. On November 27, 2006 it was announced that the second child the Princess was expecting was also a girl. On April 29, 2007, at 16:50h, her second daughter, Infanta Sofía, was born.
Her official title is "Her Royal Highness, Doña Letizia, the Princess of Asturias", Princess of Gerona, Princess of Viana, Duchess of Montblanc, Countess of Cervera and Lady of Balaguer.
Letizia joined from the beginning the duties of his husband Felipe, Princess of Asturias, and travelled extensively through Spain in representation of the King. They also represented Spain in other countries: the Princess has travelled along with the Prince to Jordan, Mexico, Hungary, Dominican Republic, Panama, the USA, Serbia, Brazil, Uruguay, Sweden, Japan, China and Portugal. She also greeted along other members of the family international dignitaries. Letizia also attended foreign royalty gatherings in Luxembourg and The Netherlands, for the Silver wedding anniversary of the Grand Dukes of Luxembourg and the 40th birthday celebrations of Prince Willem-Alexander of Orange in the Netherlands.
Her solo agenda was announced in 2006, shortly after the announcement of her second pregnancy. Letizia has performed a couple of audiences and her work will focus on social issues such as children rights, culture and education.
In 2006, Letizia received some unfortunate attention over a "wardrobe malfunction" (a gust of wind blew her skirt up while greeting a crowd atop the Juan Luis Galiardo Theater). The embarrassing moment was widely circulated through European news outlets as well as the blogosphere, and according to Google, caused a significant increase in internet searches for "Letizia". . |
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