| Letizia Ortiz | |
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| Tenure | 19 June 2014 – present |
| Born | Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano (1972-09-15)15 September 1972 (age 53) Oviedo, Asturias, Spain |
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| House | Bourbon-Anjou (by marriage) |
| Father | Jesús José Ortiz Álvarez |
| Mother | María de la Paloma Rocasolano Rodríguez |
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Extended royal family Children of the lateDuchess of Badajoz:
The Duchess of Soria and Hernani
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Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano (pronounced[leˈtiθjaoɾˈtiθrokasoˈlano]; born 15 September 1972) isQueen of Spain as the wife of KingFelipe VI.
Letizia was born inOviedo, Asturias. She worked as a journalist forABC andEFE before becoming anews anchor atCNN+ andTelevisión Española. In 1998, she marriedAlonso Guerrero Pérez; they divorced the following year. In 2004,Letizia married Felipe, thenPrince of Asturias as the son andheir apparent ofKing Juan Carlos I. The couple have two daughters,Leonor andSofía. AsPrincess of Asturias, Letizia represented her father-in-law in Spain and abroad. OnJuan Carlos's abdication in June 2014, Felipe became king, making Letiziaqueen consort.
As the consort of the ruling monarch, Letizia has no constitutional functions of her own and it is constitutionally prohibited for her to assume any, unless she assumes the role ofregent.[1] The Queen performs public commitments representing theCrown, often with her husband, but she is focused on being the patron, president or member of numerous charities and organizations, and she is the visible face of theSpanish international cooperation, often traveling around the world supervising and promoting it.[2]
Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano was born on 15 September 1972 at Miñor Sanatorium inOviedo, Asturias,[3] the eldest daughter of Jesús José Ortiz Álvarez, a journalist, and his first wife, María de la Paloma Rocasolano Rodríguez, a chief registered nurse and hospital union representative with a bachelor's degree in art history.[4] She has two younger sisters, Telma (born 1973) and Érika (1975–2007). Érika died by suicide via intentional drug overdose while Letizia was pregnant with hersecond child.[5]
Ortiz's parents divorced in 1999 and her father remarried inMadrid on 18 March 2004 to fellow journalist Ana Togores.[6][7]
Ortiz's paternal grandparents were José Luis Ortiz Velasco (1923–2005), a commercial employee atOlivetti,[8] andMaría del Carmen "Menchu" Álvarez del Valle (1928–2021), a radio broadcaster in Asturias for over 40 years. Her maternal grandfather was Francisco Julio Rocasolano Camacho (1918–2015), a mechanic and cab driver in Madrid for over 20 years who was of French andOccitan origin.[9][10][11] Her maternal grandmother, Enriqueta Rodríguez Figueredo (1919–2008), was aFilipina of Spanish descent.[12][13][14]
Several studies have been conducted to try to determine the queen's familygenealogy. British genealogists have provided evidence that through her mother's Rocasolano lineage, Ortiz descends from Astorg Roquesoulane, a 16th-century woman who died in 1564, and hercoat of arms incorporates the arms of the Rocasolano family.[15] A French genealogist found evidence that through her mother's Rocasolano lineage, Ortiz is a 9th cousin of French singer and actress Anny Flore.[16] Other reports have suggested, and remain unproven, that on her paternal grandfather's side, she is a descendant of an untitled family descended from medieval nobility who served asconstables of Castile.[17]
Ortiz attended La Gesta School in Oviedo, before her family moved toRivas-Vaciamadrid[18] nearMadrid, where she attended the Ramiro de Maeztu High School.[19] She completed abachelor's degree in journalism, at theComplutense University of Madrid, as well as a master's degree in audiovisual journalism at the Institute for Studies in Audiovisual Journalism.[20]
During her studies, Ortiz worked for the Asturian daily newspaperLa Nueva España and later for the newspaperABC and the national news agencyEFE.[19][20] After completing her master's degree, she travelled toGuadalajara, Mexico, where she worked at the newspaperSiglo 21 and began work toward a PhD. She did not, however, complete her doctoral thesis because she returned to Spain.[21] After returning to Spain, she worked for the Spanish version of the economic channelBloomberg before moving to the news networkCNN+.[20]
In 2000, Ortiz moved toTVE, where she started working for the news channel24 Horas. In 2002, she anchored the weekly news report programmeInforme Semanal and later the daily morning news programmeTelediario Matinal on TVE 1.[19][20] In August 2003, a few months before her engagement toFelipe, Prince of Asturias, Ortiz was promoted to anchor of the TVE daily evening news programmeTelediario 2, the most viewed newscast in Spain.[22]
In 2000, she reported from Washington, D.C., onthe presidential elections. In September 2001, she broadcast live fromGround Zero following the9/11 attacks in New York and in 2003, she filed reports from Iraq following thewar.[23] In 2002 she sent several reports fromGalicia in northern Spain following the ecological disaster when the oil tankerPrestige sank.[24]
In the late 1980s, Letizia metAlonso Guerrero Pérez (b. 1962), a school teacher – 10 years older than her – who taught Spanish language and literature at the Ramiro de Maeztu Institute of Madrid, where she studied.[25] After a 10-year courtship, on 7 August 1998 the couple married in acivil ceremony at the City Council ofAlmendralejo (Badajoz), municipality of origin of Guerrero.[26] Letizia was 26 years old and Alonso 36. Ninety guests attended the ceremony.[27] The marriage ended by divorce in 1999.[23] After the divorce, Letizia moved to a small apartment located in the Madrid district ofVicálvaro. She later gave the apartment to her sister Erika; she lived there until her death in 2007.[28]
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On 1 November 2003, to the surprise of many, theRoyal Household announced Ortiz's engagement to Prince Felipe.[20] Afterwards, she moved to live in a wing of theZarzuela Palace until the day of her wedding.[29] The Prince of Asturias had proposed to her with a 16-baguette diamond engagement ring with a white gold trim.[30] She marked the occasion by giving him white gold and sapphire cufflinks and a classic book.[31]
The wedding took place on 22 May 2004 in theAlmudena Cathedral in Madrid.[32] It was the first royal wedding in this cathedral. 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 andInfanta Cristina, married inSeville andBarcelona, respectively. Letizia's bridal gown was designed by Spanish fashion designerManuel Pertegaz, her bridal shoes byPura López; and the veil, a gift from Felipe to his bride, was made of off-white silk tulle and hand-embroidered with detailing.[33] As Letizia's previous marriage involved only a civil ceremony, theCatholic Church does not consider it canonically valid and therefore did not require anannulment to proceed with aCatholic marriage to Felipe.[34]
Letizia and Felipe have two daughters:Leonor, Princess of Asturias, born on 31 October 2005,[35] andInfanta Sofía, born on 29 April 2007. They were born in the Ruber International Hospital inMadrid.[36]
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After becoming Princess of Asturias, Letizia automatically joined theroyal family and moved her residence to the Prince's Pavilion (Spanish:Pabellón del Principe), Felipe's private residence, near to theZarzuela Palace (the private and work residence of the royal family).[37]
Although Letizia attended some specific events of the royal family before the wedding (such as the state funeral for the2004 Madrid train bombings victims[38] or thewedding of Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark, and Mary Donaldson[39]), she immediately joined in the duties of her husband representing her father-in-law. Five days after her wedding, Letizia traveled withQueen Sofia, Prince Felipe andInfanta Cristina to the wedding of Jordan's Crown PrinceHamzah bin Hussein andPrincess Noor bint Asem, which took place at theZahran Palace.[40] That same year, Letizia accompanied her husband on several national activities but also in international trips such us the official visits to México in July,[41] Hungary in September,[42] the United States in October,[43] and Serbia in December,[44] as well as receiving the president of the Czech Republic,Václav Klaus, and his wife,Livia Klausová, in Madrid.
In 2005, Letizia accompanied her husband to Brazil[45] and Uruguay,[46] both in February. They also travelled toStockholm (Sweden) in April, to inaugurate a new office of theCervantes Institute,[47] and to Japan in June, where they met theJapanese Imperial Family and to visit theExpo 2005.[48] Following the birth ofInfanta Leonor at the end of 2005, the princess's agenda was reduced, although during the following year, in addition to her national commitments, she accompanied her husband on official trips to Portugal[49] and China.[50] The second pregnancy, this time ofInfanta Sofía, also prevented her from attending some activities[51] but, in October 2006, the Royal Household announced that the Princess of Asturias would have her own official agenda, which would be compatible with that of her husband. Her first solo act as princess was the inauguration of a public school inPozuelo de Alarcón (Madrid) on 9 October 2006.[52] Since then, Letizia performed regular audiences and visits focused on social issues such as children's rights, rare diseases, culture, and education.[53] In this sense, in September 2010, the Spanish Association Against Cancer (AECC) appointed her as honorary president of the Association and its scientific foundation.[54]
For all this, in late 2007 her solo agenda started to grow in the number of events she performed by herself and Felipe's and Letizia's agendas became more distinct and separate,[53] andJosé Manuel de Zuleta, 14th Duke of Abrantes, joined the Prince of Asturias's Secretariat as private secretary to the Princess.[55]
According to the compilation presented by the Royal Household on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the marriage of the Prince and Princess of Asturias, between 22 May 2004 and 22 May 2014 they attended together more than 1,516 official engagements, while Princess Letizia attended another 190 alone. They also made 73 trips abroad together to 38 countries, while the Princess traveled abroad alone on two occasions, once to Geneva (Switzerland) to visit the headquarters of theWorld Health Organization (WHO) and another to Berlin (Germany) for the presentation of the 3rd Eva Luise Köhler Research Award about rare diseases. Together with her husband, the Princess held 248 public audiences, in which they have seen more than 7,200 people, while the Princess alone held 107 audiences for 2,100 people.[56]
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On 19 June 2014, Letizia becameQueen of Spain with her husband's accession as Felipe VI; as such, she holds the style ofMajesty.[57] She is the first Spanish-bornqueen consort sinceMercedes of Orléans, the first wife ofAlfonso XII, in 1878.[58] She is also the first Spanish queen to have been born as acommoner.[23] The queen consort was present when KingJuan Carlos I gave his son, King Felipe VI, the sash ofcaptain general of theArmed Forces (symbolizing the transfer of royal and military power),[59] as well as when Felipe swore before theCortes Generales to fulfill his duties, protect and defend theConstitution as well as respecting the rights of the citizens and theSpanish regions.[60][61]
Queen Letizia undertook her first solo engagement as queen on 23 June 2014 at the inauguration of theEl Greco and modern painting exhibition at thePrado Museum in Madrid.[62] On 25 June 2014, the King ratified theDuke of Abrantes as her private secretary.[63] In their first overseas trip as king and queen, Felipe and Letizia metPope Francis on 30 June 2014, in theApostolic Palace.[64] They later met withCardinal Secretary of StatePietro 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.[65]
In September 2014, Letizia chaired the Royal Board on Disability, a government agency protected by the Crown whose president is the consort of the reigning monarch.[66] On 25 October 2014, she attended the delivery ceremony of the Prince of Asturias Awards, the last with this name. From 2015 onwards, they were renamed "Princess of Asturias Awards" withLeonor, Princess of Asturias as their president.[67] On 27 October 2014, she travelled toVienna, Austria to inaugurate an exhibition about Spanish painterDiego Velázquez, which marked her first international solo visit.[68] There, she met the Austrian presidentHeinz Fischer and his wife,Margit Fischer.[69] It was not her last solo foreign visit that year, visiting Portugal in November for the Closing Ceremony of the 2nd Ibero-American Meeting on Rare Diseases[70] and Italy to attend the Second International Conference on Nutrition, organized by theUnited NationsFood and Agriculture Organization (FAO), where she delivered the main speech.[citation needed] In her speech, she praised the role of women in the fight against hunger, described as "unacceptable" that more than 850 million people in the world suffer from hunger and demanded that thefood industry balance its "commercial interests" with its "responsibility" to eradicate obesity.[71] In December 2014, she chaired the general meeting of the Spanish Association Against Cancer, an association that she has chaired since 2010[54] and which she continues to do as queen.[72]
During 2015, Letizia continued giving support to social causes related to relevant diseases, attending events and meetings of the Spanish Association Against Cancer, the Spanish Federation of Rare Diseases[73] and the Spanish Red Cross,[citation needed] among others. The King and Queen had planned their first state visit for March 2015 to France. However, on 24 March 2015 they had to postponed the visit due to the pilot ofGermanwings Flight 9525 deliberately crashing the plane in theFrench Alps,[74] killing 150 people, including 51Spaniards.[75] They resumed the state visit on early June, being welcomed by French presidentFrançois Hollande.[76] They also met the prime minister,Manuel Valls, the president of the French Senate,Gérard Larcher, the president of the National Assembly,Claude Bartolone and the mayor of Paris,Anne Hidalgo.[77][78] On 13 April 2015, Queen Letizia visited the Artillery Academy, which marked her first solo military event.[79][80] A few days later, she travelled with her husband toCopenhagen, Denmark, to commemorate the 75th birthday of QueenMargrethe II.[citation needed] From 25 to 28 of May 2015, Letizia made her first international cooperation visit to Honduras and El Salvador.[81]
In June 2015, Letizia was named Special Ambassador for Nutrition for the United NationsFood and Agriculture Organization (FAO).[82] Late this month, after travelling to France, she and the King made a state visit toMéxico, their first visit to theAmericas as Spain's sovereigns.[83] They met the Mexican president,Enrique Peña Nieto, the First Lady,Angélica Rivera, the head of México City,Miguel Ángel Mancera and the leaders of theCongress of the Union.[84][85] In late July 2015, she traveled alone toMilan, Italy for theExpo 2015.[86] From 14 to 19 September 2015, the King and Queen made an official visit to the United States, where they visited American presidentBarack Obama and his wife,Michelle Obama, and theUnited States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.[87] They later traveled toLouisiana, where they were received by soldiers with the traditional uniform of theSpanish Louisiana and toVirginia, to visitMount Vernon.[87] In October 2015, she traveled alone toDüsseldorf, Germany, to inaugurate an exhibition about Spanish painterZurbarán.[88] That month, she also accompanied King Felipe to thePrincess of Asturias Awards ceremony, the first sinceLeonor assumed asPrincess of Asturias.[89] At the end of 2015, the Queen attended two funerals. First, in November, she attended, with the rest of theRoyal Family, the funeral ofInfante Carlos, Duke of Calabria inEl Escorial.[90] Second, in December, she attended the funeral of Spanish police officers killed in the2015 Spanish Embassy attack in Kabul.[91]
2016 was a low-key year for theRoyal Family. The electoral process started with the2015 general election[92] and followed by the2016 general election[93] made it difficult for the Crown to develop a normal agenda. Letizia began 2016 by receiving different social entities in audience, such as the Roma Secretariat Foundation,[94] the Association of Children's Organizations of Spain,[94] the Association for Specific Language Disorder of Madrid[95] and the Spanish Nutrition Foundation,[96] which informed the Queen about their goals, activity and projects.
In March 2016, leaked text messages between Letizia and businessman Javier López Madrid created controversy. Together with other executives and board members of the Caja Madrid and Bankia financial group, Madrid had been accused of corruption. In October 2014, Letizia pledged her support for him, texting "We know who you are and you know who we are. We know each other, like each other, respect each other. To hell with the rest. Kisses yoga mate (miss you!!!)". Felipe also joined in, texting "We do indeed!" The newspaperEl Diario later published these texts. A palace official subsequently stated that the King and Queen were no longer friends with López Madrid due to his legal issues.[97][98] Also in March, Letizia made the first of the two international trips she had in 2016. She accompanied King Felipe toPuerto Rico, in order to chair the 7th International Congress of the Spanish Language.[citation needed] On 22 April 2016, the King and Queen gave audience to Spanish figure skaterJavier Fernández after winning the2016 World Championship (his second consecutive title).[99] To finish the year, in late November 2016, the King and Queen made a state visit to Portugal, where they met Portuguese presidentMarcelo Rebelo de Sousa and prime ministerAntónio Costa, among others.[100] While the King was fulfilling his constitutional obligations before the Portuguese authorities, the Queen met with the president of the Portuguese League Against Cancer, Víctor Veloso.[101]
2017 started very like the past year, with Letizia meeting some relevant social organizations that she chaired. In February, both the King and Queen welcomed important foreign leaders at theRoyal Palace of Zarzuela, such as the German presidentJoachim Gauck and his wife, Gerhild Radtke,[102] and the Hungarian presidentJános Áder and his wife, Anita Herczegh.[103] Precisely, in an event with these last guests, the royals learned the initial judicial ruling that declaredIñaki Urdangarin, the King's brother-in-law, guilty of several corruption crimes.[104] The King's sister,Infanta Cristina, was cleared of all crimes.[104] To finish the month, Felipe and Letizia welcomed the Argentine president,Mauricio Macri, and the First Lady,Juliana Awada, during their state visit to Spain.[105]
On 23 March 2017, she made her first solo trip of the year toPorto, Portugal, to attend the 7th Conference on Tobacco or Health. There, she met the Portuguese president, the European Commissioner for Health and Safety,Vytenis Andriukaitis, the minister of Health of Portugal,Adalberto Campos Fernandes, and the mayor of Porto,Rui Moreira.[106] In April 2017, Queen Letizia and King Felipe made a state visit to Japan.[citation needed] At the end of the year, they travelled to the Netherlands to celebrate the 50th birthday ofWillem-Alexander.[citation needed] In May, they offered a lunch to JordanianPrincess Muna Al Hussein[107] and to the Portuguese president. They also celebrated, along with King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofía, the 40th anniversary of the Reina Sofía Foundation and the 10th anniversary of the Alzheimer Centre of the Foundation.[108] In mid-July 2017, the Spanish royals made a state visit to the United Kingdom, where they met withQueen Elizabeth II andPrince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.[109] They also reunited with the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall,Charles andCamilla.[110]
On 31 October 2018, the Queen witnessed the first public address of her eldest daughter, Princess Leonor, who read the first article of theSpanish Constitution during the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Magna Carta.[111] A year later, on 18 October 2019, Letizia accompanied her daughter Leonor to the delivery of thePrincess of Asturias Awards, the first time for the young princess.[112] The heir to the throne delivered her first speech in public in this event.[113]
In the context of theCOVID-19 pandemic, King Felipe had to isolate himself in quarantine for testing positive for coronavirus in several occasions between 2020 and 2022.[114][115] While he was isolated, the Queen replaced him in those events for which she was constitutionally authorized (awards delivery,[116] lunches, inauguration of events,[117] etc.) but not in those activities tightly related to constitutional responsibilities (such as the working meeting with the president of Bosnia and Herzegovina,Željko Komšić, in 2022, which had to be postponed.[118][119] For the 2020Rey Jaime I Awards inValencia, Queen Letizia presented the award-winners with their gold medals and gave a short speech praising the "talent, effort and generosity" of prize-winners.[120][121] In 2022, it was reported that Letizia was suffering fromMorton's neuroma.[122] She is also reported to have been suffering frommetatarsalgia.[123]
After a one-month delay to avoid interfering with the electoral campaign of the2023 general election, on 25 July 2023 the King and Queen inaugurated theRoyal Collections Gallery,[124] a new museum sponsored byPatrimonio Nacional, the government agency that guards theCrown assets. On 17 August 2023, King Felipe and Queen Letizia, together withInfanta Sofía, accompanied Princess Leonor to theGeneral Military Academy, to begin three years of military training.[125] Leonor used both her father's and her mother's surnames "Borbón Ortiz".[126] In late August 2023, she travelled with her youngest daughter, Sofía, to Australia to see thefinal of the2023 FIFA Women's World Cup betweenSpain andEngland.[127] The Queen delivered the trophy to the World Champions, Spain, and celebrated with them on the pitch.[128][129] Indirectly, this drew criticism to theBritish royal family for their absence from the event.[130][131][132]
On 30 April 2024,State lawyer María Dolores Ocaña Madrid was appointed as private secretary to the Queen, being the first woman to hold the office.[133] It was also announced that Maria Dolores Ocaña would take a step back from her role due to personal reasons. Journalist and presenterMarta Carazo ofRTVE would take over the role of the Queen's secretary on 1 September 2025.[134]
On 3 November 2024, King Felipe, Queen Letizia, Prime Minister Sánchez and Valencian presidentCarlos Mazón were violently confronted during a meeting with victims of theOctober 2024 Spain floods inPaiporta in theValencian Community, who threw mud and objects at them and injured two bodyguards.[135] Although the Prime Minister had to be evacuated, the monarchs remained there listening to the complaints and requests of the residents.[136] After the incident, the visit to neighboring towns was postponed,[137] but the Royal Household confirmed that they would return "in the next few days".[138] The King returned to the region on 12 November to check the efforts of the Armed Forces in the disaster[139] and, on 19 November, he and the Queen resumed the visit canceled two weeks earlier.[140] On 22 December 2024, the King and Queen made a surprise visit toCatarroja to check in again to see how the residents were doing.[141] In this visit they were accompanied by Princess Leonor and Infanta Sofía who were on their respective school breaks. On 12 March 2025 to show their continued support for Valencia they visited the people again to check in on what has happened since then.[142]
Upon marrying Felipe, Letizia was styled "Her Royal Highness The Princess of Asturias", as consort of the Prince of Asturias, heir to the Spanish Crown.[143][144] Likewise, Letizia had the right to use the other titles that belonged to Felipe as heir (these were those ofPrincess of Girona,Princess of Viana,Duchess of Montblanc,Countess of Cervera, andLady of Balaguer).[145]
After the accession of Felipe to the Spanish throne, Letizia became queen consort and was styled as "Her Majesty The Queen". In private conversations, the most correct thing is to address her initially as "Your Majesty" (Majestad) and, later, as "Madam" (Señora), but never as "You" (Tú orUsted).[146]
On 21 May 2004, the day before her marriage to Felipe, Letizia was appointed a Dame Grand Cross of theRoyal and Distinguished Order of Charles III.[147] Since then, Letizia has received different appointments and decorations by foreign states and other Spanish honours.
Thecoat of arms of Queen Letizia was adopted in 2014, based on the design created for her by the Asturian Academy of Heraldry and Genealogy (Academia Asturiana de Heráldica y Genealogía) in May 2004 and approved byVicente de Cadenas y Vicent,Cronista Rey de Armas; this was used by her as Princess of Asturias.[148] The revision of 2014 was confirmed by Don Alfonso Ceballos-Escalera y Gil, Chronicler of Arms for Castile and León.
The Queen's coat of arms has no official status, as in Spain onlythose of the King, former King Juan Carlos, andof the Princess of Asturias are so recognized by Royal Decree.[149][150]
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From 2004 to 2014The coat of arms used as the princess was the whole differenced with a label of three points Azure (used as a 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).[149][150] |
Her parents divorced in 1999 and her father remarried ... in Madrid on 18 March 2004 to fellow journalist Ana Togores N, born ca. 1955
Her maternal grandparents are Francisco Julio Rocasolano Camacho (Madrid, 21 July 1918 –), a mechanic and a cab driver in Madrid for over 20 years, and half-Filipino wife (m. 1950) Enriqueta Rodríguez Figueredo (Oviedo, 2 March 1919 – Madrid, 22 June 2008); by her maternal grandfather she (Letizia) is of French and Occitan origin
Through her maternal grandmother, Enriqueta Rodriguez Figueredo, is half Filipino. Letizia's Filipino connection is merely geographical. To understand this, we must remember that during colonial times, there was a caste system. Native Filipinos (those of pure Austronesian ancestry) were called indio. The label "Filipino" was reserved for the insulares, or people of pure Spanish descent born in the Philippines ... By her maternal grandfather, Francisco Julio Rocasolano Camacho, she is of French and Occitan origin
... on her paternal grandfather's side she is a descendant of an untitled family descended from mediaeval nobility who served as Constables of Castile...
La reina Letizia (48 años) presidirá el próximo lunes en Valencia el acto de entrega de los Premios Rey Jaime I 2020 al que iba a acudir con Felipe VI (52), quien se ausentará debido a la cuarentena que mantiene por haber estado en contacto con un positivo por covid-19. (Queen Letizia (48 years old) will preside next Monday in Valencia the ceremony of delivery of the King Jaime I Awards 2020 to which she was going to attend with Felipe VI (52), who will be absent due to the quarantine he maintains for having been in contact with a positive for covid-19.)
La Reina Letizia ha destacado que el "talento, el esfuerzo y la generosidad" de los galardonados en los Premios Rey Jaime I "suponen una muestra de que somos capaces de proyectar una España moderna, solidaria y fuerte" (Queen Letizia stressed that the "talent, effort and generosity" of the winners of the Rey Jaime I Awards "are a sign that we are capable of projecting a modern, supportive and strong Spain")
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