Queen Letizia of Spain

Letizia Ortiz
Letizia Ortiz
	Queen Letizia in 2022
Queen consort of Spain
Tenure	19 June 2014 – present
Born	Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano; 15 September 1972 (age 51); Oviedo, Asturias, Spain
Spouse	; Alonso Guerrero Pérez (m. 1998; div. 1999) ; Felipe VI (m. 2004)
Issue	Leonor, Princess of Asturias; Infanta Sofía;
House	Bourbon-Anjou (by marriage)
Father	Jesús José Ortiz Álvarez
Mother	María de la Paloma Rocasolano Rodríguez
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Education	Complutense University of Madrid; Institute for Studies in Audiovisual Journalism;

Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano (pronounced [leˈtiθja oɾˈtiθ rokasoˈlano]; born 15 September 1972) is Queen of Spain as the wife of King Felipe VI.

Letizia came from a middle-class family. She worked as a journalist for ABC and EFE before becoming a news anchor at CNN+ and Televisión Española. In 1998, she married Alonso Guerrero Pérez, whom she divorced the following year. In 2004, Letizia married Felipe, then Prince of Asturias as the son and heir apparent of King Juan Carlos I. The couple has two daughters, Leonor and Sofía. As Princess of Asturias, Letizia represented her father-in-law in Spain and abroad. On Juan Carlos's abdication in June 2014, Felipe became king, making Letizia queen consort.

As the consort of the ruling monarch, Letizia has no constitutional functions of her own and it is constitutionally prohibited to do so, unless she assume the role of regent.^[1] In this sense, the queen performs public commitments representing the Crown, 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 the Spanish international cooperation, often traveling around the world supervising and promoting it.^[2]

^ Tiburcio, Núria (11 February 2022). "¿Por qué la reina Letizia no puede asumir la agenda de Felipe VI, positivo en coronavirus?". vanitatis.elconfidencial.com (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 24 August 2023. Retrieved 24 August 2023.
^ "Así ha aprendido la reina Letizia de sus errores en los viajes de Cooperación: un debut accidentado, un ciclón y la polémica del chaleco rojo". Mujer Hoy (in Spanish). 12 June 2023. Archived from the original on 12 June 2023. Retrieved 24 August 2023.

[1] Tiburcio, Núria (11 February 2022). "¿Por qué la reina Letizia no puede asumir la agenda de Felipe VI, positivo en coronavirus?". vanitatis.elconfidencial.com (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 24 August 2023. Retrieved 24 August 2023.

[2] "Así ha aprendido la reina Letizia de sus errores en los viajes de Cooperación: un debut accidentado, un ciclón y la polémica del chaleco rojo". Mujer Hoy (in Spanish). 12 June 2023. Archived from the original on 12 June 2023. Retrieved 24 August 2023.

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