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2014 BCE
When Letizia was officially queen of Spain
On June 2, 2014, the President of the Government Mariano Rajoy announced the abdication of King Juan Carlos I in his son Prince Felipe, for which Letizia Ortiz became Queen of Spain on June 19, 2014, the day that Felipe VI was proclaimed king. -
2007 BCE
Second daughter
Infanta Sofía was born at 5:23 p.m. on April 29, 2007 at the Ruber International Hospital in Madrid, as the second-born of the, at that time, Princes of Asturias, Felipe de Borbón y Grecia and Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano. -
2005 BCE
First daughter
Letizia gave birth to Leonor on October 31, 2005. Leonor is the current princess of Asturias -
2004 BCE
Marriage to Prince Felipe
Felipe and Letizia were married on May 22, 2004 in Madrid Cathedral of La Almudena -
2000 BCE
Mariano José de Larra Award for being the best journalist under 30 years of age
Letizia Ortiz received in 2000 the Mariano José de Larra Prize awarded by the Madrid Press Association for her work as Best Journalist under 30 years of age. -
1998 BCE
Her first marriage
On August 7, 1998, Letizia Ortiz and Alonso Guerrero Pérez, teacher of Language and Literature at the Ramiro de Maeztu high school in Madrid, where she had studied, entered into a civil marriage in the Plenary Hall of the Almendralejo City Council. Letizia and Alonso divorced in 1999. -
1997 BCE
First work
from 1997 to 1999, Letizia worked for an American television channel on a private channel specializing in economics. -
1991 BCE
Studies of Letizia
After finishing high school, Ortiz enrolled at the Complutense University of Madrid, where he graduated in Information Sciences, a branch of journalism -
1972 BCE
When and where she was born
Letizia Ortiz was born in Sanatorio Miñor the Oviedo in Asturias, in 1972 -
1972 BCE
Her baptized
On September 29, 1972, she was baptized in the Parish of San Francisco de Asís in Oviedo. His godparents were his maternal uncle, Francisco Rocasolano Rodríguez and his paternal aunt, Cristina Ortiz Álvarez.