Queen Letizia of Spain

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"Leticia Ortiz" redirects here. For the character in the film "The Fast and the Furious", see Leticia "Letty" Ortiz.

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This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Ortiz and the second or maternal family name is Rocasolano.
Letizia
Letizia Ortiz (2014-09-05).jpg
Queen Letizia in September 2014
Queen consort of Spain
Tenure 19 June 2014 – present
Born (1972-09-15) 15 September 1972 (age 51)
Oviedo, Asturias, Spain
Spouse Alonso Guerrero Pérez
(m. 1998; div. 1999)
Felipe VI of Spain
(m. 2004)
Issue Leonor, Princess of Asturias
Infanta Sofía of Spain
Full name
Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano
Father Jesús José Ortiz Álvarez
Mother María Paloma Rocasolano Rodríguez
Religion Roman Catholicism
Signature

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano (Spanish pronunciation: [leˈtiθja]; born 15 September 1972) is the Queen of Spain as the wife of King Felipe VI, who ascended on 19 June 2014 on the abdication of his father Juan Carlos I.[1] Before her marriage to Felipe, Letizia was a journalist and news anchor. Letizia and Felipe have two daughters, Leonor, Princess of Asturias, who is now the heir presumptive; and Infanta Sofía.

Family

Letizia was born in Oviedo, Asturias, to a middle-class family.[2] She is the eldest daughter of Jesús José Ortiz Álvarez, a journalist, and his first wife, María de la Paloma Rocasolano Rodríguez, a registered nurse and hospital union representative.[3] She has two younger sisters, Telma (b. 1973) and Érika (1975–2007), whose death was widely reported by press as due to an intentional prescription drug overdose.[4]

Her parents divorced in 1999 and her father remarried on 1 September 2000 in Madrid on 18 March 2004[clarification needed] to fellow journalist Ana Togores, born ca. 1955.[5]

Letizia's paternal grandparents were José Luis Ortiz Velasco (ca. 1923–2005), a commercial employee at Olivetti;[6] and María del Carmen "Menchu" Álvarez del Valle (born in ca. 1928), a radio broadcaster in Asturias for over 40 years. Her maternal grandparents were Francisco Julio Rocasolano Camacho (1918–2015), a mechanic and cab driver in Madrid for over 20 years,[7][8] through him she has distant Occitan origins,[9] and Enriqueta Rodríguez Figueredo (1919–2008), whose father was born in the Philippines to Spanish parents;[10] English-speaking newspapers have suggested that she is a descendant of an untitled family descended from medieval nobility who served as Constables of Castile.[11]

Education and career

Letizia attended La Gesta School in Oviedo, before her family moved to Madrid, where she attended high school at the Ramiro de Maeztu High School.[12] She completed a Bachelor's Degree and a Licentiate's Degree in Journalism, at the Complutense University of Madrid, as well as a Master's Degree in Audiovisual Journalism at the Institute for Studies in Audiovisual Journalism.[13]

During her studies, Letizia worked for the Asturian daily newspaper La Nueva España and later for the newspaper ABC and the news agency EFE.[12][13] After completing her studies, she spent some time in Guadalajara, Mexico, working at the newspaper Siglo 21. After returning to Spain, she worked for the Spanish version of the economic channel Bloomberg before moving to the news network CNN+.[13]

In 2000, she moved to TVE, where she started working for the news channel 24 Horas. In 2002, she anchored the weekly news report programme Informe Semanal and later the daily morning news programme Telediario Matinal on TVE 1.[12][13] In August 2003, a few months before her engagement to Felipe, Letizia was promoted to anchor of the TVE daily evening news programme Telediario 2, the most viewed newscast in Spain.[14]

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.[15] In 2002 she sent several reports from Galicia in northern Spain following the ecological disaster when the oil tanker Prestige sank.[16]

First marriage

Letizia married Alonso Guerrero Pérez (born in 1962), a writer and a high-school literature teacher, on 7 August 1998, in a simple civil ceremony at Almendralejo, in Badajoz, after a 10-year courtship.[17] The marriage was dissolved by divorce in 1999.[18]

Second marriage and children

The Prince and Princess of Asturias at the wedding of the Crown Princess of Sweden in 2010

On 1 November 2003, to the surprise of many, the Royal Household announced Letizia's engagement to the Prince of Asturias.[13] Afterwards, she moved to live in a wing of Zarzuela Palace until the day of her wedding.[19] The Prince of Asturias had proposed to her with a 16-baguette diamond engagement ring with a white gold trim. She marked the occasion by giving him white gold and sapphire cufflinks and a classic book.[20]

The wedding took place on 22 May 2004 in the Cathedral Santa María la Real de la Almudena in Madrid.[21] It was the first royal wedding in this cathedral, which was consecrated by Pope John Paul II in 1993. It had been nearly a century since the capital celebrated a royal wedding, as the prince's parents married in Athens, and his sisters, Infanta Elena and Infanta Cristina, married in Sevilla and Barcelona respectively.

Letizia's bridal gown was designed by Spanish fashion designer Manuel Pertegaz, her bridal shoes by Pura López; and the veil, a gift from Felipe to his bride, was made of off-white silk tulle and hand-embroidered with beautiful details.[22]

As Letizia's previous marriage involved only a civil ceremony, the Catholic Church does not consider it canonically valid and therefore did not require an annulment to proceed with a Catholic marriage to the Prince of Asturias.[23]

Letizia and Felipe have two daughters: Leonor, Princess of Asturias, born on 31 October 2005; and Infanta Sofía, born on 29 April 2007.[23][24]

Princess of Asturias

The Prince and Princess of Asturias visit the Paranal Observatory.

The Princess immediately joined in the duties of her husband and traveled extensively through Spain representing her father-in-law. They also represented Spain in other countries: the Princess has traveled along with the Prince to Jordan, Mexico, Hungary, the Dominican Republic, Panama, the United States of America, Serbia, Brazil, Uruguay, Sweden, Denmark, Japan, China, and Portugal. She also greeted international dignitaries, along with other members of the royal family. Letizia also attended gatherings of foreign royalty in Luxembourg, for the silver wedding anniversary of the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, and in the Netherlands for the 40th birthday of the Prince of Orange.[25]

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 late 2007, her solo agenda started to grow in the quantity of events she performed by herself and Felipe's and Letizia's agendas became more distinct and separate.[26]

Letizia supported Spanish designers, from couturiers such as Felipe Varela and Lorenzo Caprile to Zara and Mango,[27] and continues to as queen consort.

Queen consort

Royal Monogram of Queen Letizia

Letizia undertook her first solo engagement as Queen on 23 June 2014 at the inauguration of the El Greco and modern painting exhibition at the National Prado museum in Madrid.[28]

In their first overseas trip as monarchs, Felipe VI and Queen Letizia met Pope Francis on 30 June 2014, in the Apostolic Palace. They later met with Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin, accompanied by Mgsr. Antoine Camilleri, under-secretary for Relations with States. The visit followed one by King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofia on 28 April.[29]

In 2015, Letizia was named Special Ambassador for Nutrition for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.[30]

Letizia and Felipe and the princesses still reside at the residence where they have lived since 2004. It is stated that the Palace of Zarzuela will be a working place for only Felipe.[31]

Titles, honours, and arms

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Main article: List of titles and honours of Queen Letizia of Spain

At the time of her marriage to Prince Felipe, Letizia was appointed to the Grand Cross of the Royal and Distinguished Order of Charles III as dame on 21 May 2004.[32] Since then, Letizia has received different appointments and decorations by foreign states and other Spanish honours.

On 19 June 2014, Letizia became Queen of Spain; as such, she holds the style of Majesty.[33] She is the first Spanish-born queen consort since Mercedes of Orléans, the first wife of Alfonso XII.[34] She is also the first Spanish queen to have been born as a commoner.[35]

Arms

Arms of Queen Letizia of Spain
Coat of Arms of Letizia Ortiz, Queen of Spain.svg
Notes
The coat of arms of Queen Letizia was adopted in 2014. It is based on the design used by her as Princess of Asturias and created by Asturian Academy of Heraldry and Genealogy (Academia Asturiana de Heráldica y Genealogía) in May 2004. The Queen's coat of arms has no official status. In Spain only the coats of arms of the King and the Princess of Asturias are official.[36][37]
Crest
The queen consort's crown (crown's arches differenced as consort)
Escutcheon
Impaled I, quarterly 1st Gules a castle Or, triple-embattled and voided gate and windows, with three towers each triple-turreted, of the field, masoned Sable and ajoure Azure (Castile); 2nd Argent a lion rampant Purpure crowned Or, langued and armed Gules (Leon); 3rd Or, four pallets Gules (Crown of Aragon) and 4th Gules a cross, saltire and orle of chains linked together Or, a centre point Vert Argent (Navarre); enté en point, with a pomegranate proper seeded Gules, supported, sculpted and leafed in two leaves Vert (Granada); inescutcheon Azure bordure Gules, three fleurs-de-lys Or (Bourbon-Anjou); II, quarterly 1st and 3rd Azure, an eight points star Or a bordure chequy Gules and Argent (Ortiz); 2nd and 3rd Or, a rose Gules barbed and seeded Vert (Rocasolano).[36][37]
Orders
The Grand Cross of the Order of Charles III ribbon.
Banner
Personal Standard of Letizia, Queen of Spain.svg The Queen's personal Royal Standard is that of the Spanish monarch (crimson square flag) bordered with the main colors of the arms of her family (blue and yellow) and charged with her personalized coat of arms.[38]
Symbolism
Queen Letizia's personalized coat of arms impales her husband's shield to the dexter (viewer's left) with her family arms -1st and 4th quarters, the arms of her father Jesús Ortiz; 2nd and 3rd quarters, the arms of her maternal grandfather Francisco Rocasolano.[39][40]
Previous versions
Armas atribuidas a Letizia Ortiz como Princesa de Asturias.svg

From 2004 to 2014 The coat of arms used as princess was the whole differenced with a label of three points Azure (used as difference of the Spanish heir-apparent) and the crown as Spanish heir-apparent, it had four half-arches (with Crown's arches differenced as consort).[36][37]

References

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  39. ↑ (Spanish) Armas de Doña Letizia, Revista Internacional de Protocolo, ISSN 1135-9692, Number 33, 2004, pp. 64–65
  40. ↑ (Spanish)Label’s position correction by RIAG, Registro Internacional de Armas Gentilicias. (Retrieved 17 June 2009)

External links

Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano
Born: 15 September 1972
Spanish royalty
Preceded by Queen consort of Spain
19 June 2014 – present		 Incumbent
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