Letizia of Spain
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Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano (born September 15, 1972 in Oviedo , Asturias ; married Doña Letizia, Queen of Spain ) is a Spanish former journalist and, as the wife of Felipe VI. since his accession to the throne on June 19, 2014 the title Queen of Spain .
Life
childhood and education
Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano is the eldest of three daughters (Telma, * 1973 and Érika, 1975-2007) of the Spanish journalist Jesús Ortiz Álvarez and his wife Paloma Rocasolano Rodríguez, a nurse. Letizia grew up Catholic. She lived with her family in a village in the northern Spanish province of Asturias, on the Bay of Biscay .
As an 11-year-old, she presented a children's program every Saturday on the local radio in her birthplace, Oviedo.
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Letizia Ortiz studied communication science at the Complutense University of Madrid . She then spent some time in Mexico , where she attended some doctoral courses but did not write a dissertation. During this time she worked for the Siglo XXI newspaper . Letizia Ortiz later worked as a journalist for the newspapers La Nueva España (in Oviedo ) and ABC (in Madrid ), for the Spanish news agency EFE and for the television channels Bloomberg , CNN + (CNN subsidiary within the PRISA group) and TVE .
Marriages
Letizia Ortiz married on 7 August 1998 in a civil ceremony Alonso Guerrero Pérez ; the marriage lasted about a year. Since the couple had not married in church, the Catholic Church later agreed to the church wedding with Prince Felipe .
The engagement between Letizia Ortiz and then Crown Prince Felipe was announced on November 1, 2003, one day after her last news broadcast on TVE . The couple married on May 22, 2004 in the Almudena Cathedral in Madrid. The celebrations began on Friday evening with a gala dinner in the Pardo Palace 15 kilometers north of Madrid, where Felipe (36) asked for the journalist's hand last November. The wedding with 1,400 invited guests from the nobility, politics and public life was considered the largest social event in Europe since the wedding of British Crown Prince Charles to Lady Diana Spencer 23 years earlier.
Letizia's wedding dress was an off-white, sweeping silk dress by the 86-year-old designer Manuel Pertegaz , who returned from retirement to make it especially for it. The model impressed with simple elegance paired with majestic accessories and a touch of modern chic. It had a tailored, long-sleeved top and a subtle, but unusually pointed V-neckline for the Spanish court protocol. In addition, it had an elegant, high chimney collar and a wide, heavy skirt, which ended in a 4.50 meter long train embroidered with heraldic motifs. The pattern corresponded with the pyramid-shaped decorations made of gold and silver threads on the ends of the trumpet sleeves and skirt hem. The bride's three meter long silk veil, hand-embroidered with lilies, was a present from the prince. Letizia was crowned with a diamond-studded diadem from the Bourbon family. Queen Sofía had also worn the platinum piece of jewelry in 1962 when she married King Juan Carlos in Athens.
The relationship with her mother-in-law Queen Sofía was, according to reports in the Spanish tabloids, extremely tense from the start. Allegedly Queen Sofia tried to prevent her son from marrying a divorced middle-class bourgeoisie. In fact, the relationship between the two has always seemed hypothermic in public.
children
From the marriage to King Felipe VI. two children emerged:
- Infanta Leonor , Princess of Asturias (born October 31, 2005 in Madrid)
- Infanta Sofía (born April 29, 2007 in Madrid)
Political statements
Letizia has spoken out as a feminist and expressed her support for the movement. On International Women's Day 2018, she canceled all official dates to take part in the women's strike, in which more than 5.3 million people took to the streets for equality in Spain alone.
health
In August 2008 Letizia underwent surgical corrections on her nose and (presumably, but not confirmed) her chin. The Spanish court issued a communiqué for the first time on private matters of the royal family and cited health reasons for the nasal operation.
Official duties
As Crown Princess, Letizia accompanied her husband to various international events, such as sporting events or (royal) weddings. About two weeks after Felipe was enthroned, the first foreign trip of the new monarch couple led to Rome, to a private audience with Pope Francis .
In February 2014, King Juan Carlos I published that he had fixed annual salaries for his family members for the first time. Letizia received a total of around 102,000 euros annually - 49,000 euros as a salary and 53,000 euros for representative tasks. For Queen Sofia it was 63,000 plus 69,000 euros. Until then, Juan Carlos had not published the donations in detail and had estimated them depending on the number of public appearances. The reason for the new regulation was that the new system was more transparent. The total budget of the royal family was 7.8 million euros in 2014, 2 percent less than in the previous year, without including costs for business trips, vehicles, security measures and building maintenance.
National emblem
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Urban , The Shadows Beyond Splendor. In: sz.de , November 2, 2018.
- ↑ a b Sebastian Schoepp: Letizia of Spain. In: sueddeutsche.de . March 9, 2018, accessed March 14, 2018 .
- ↑ Princess Letizia has a new nose. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , September 1, 2008.
- ↑ http://www.rp-online.de/panorama/adel/spaniens-neues-koenigspaar-bei-papst-franziskus-aid-1.4353730
- ↑ Spain: Queen and Princess receive fixed salaries for the first time. Euronews, February 3, 2014.
- ↑ Juan Carlos now pays Sofia a fixed salary. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , February 4, 2014, p. 7.
| predecessor | Office | Successor |
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| Sophia of Greece |
Queen of Spain since June 19, 2014 |
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| SURNAME | Letizia of Spain |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Doña Letizia, Princess of Asturias; Ortiz Rocasolano, Letizia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | spanish queen |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 15th September 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oviedo , Asturias , Spain |