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Her Royal Highness the Princess of Asturias
Her Royal Highness the Princess of Asturias, Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano, was born on 15th September 1972, in Oviedo. Her parents are Jesús Ortiz Álvarez and Paloma Rocasolano Rodríguez.
On 1st November 2003, Their Majesties the King and Queen announced her engagement to His Royal Highness The Prince of Asturias, solemnised at the Cathedral of Madrid "Santa María la Real de la Almudena", on 22nd May 2004. They have two daughters, Leonor, born on 31st October 2005, and Sofía, on 29th April 2007, both in Madrid.
Her Royal Highness is the eldest of three sisters. In 1999, she contracted civil marriage, which was dissolved a year later.
She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism from the Complutense University of Madrid, as well as a Master’s Degree in Audiovisual Journalism from the Institute for Studies in Audiovisual Journalism.
She started her PhD in Mexico, where she worked at the Siglo 21 newspaper.
From a very young age, she worked in diverse media, including the Asturian newspaper La Nueva España, ABC newspaper and the EFE Agency, where she worked in international editing during her last year at University
As for television, she has worked at Bloomberg TV, an American-owned channel specialising in economy, finance and the markets, with a branch in Spain, under the supervision of the EFE Television Agency. She has also been a newscaster, an editor and a reporter at CNN+ , the private channel set up by CNN and CANAL+.
In 2000, Letizia Ortiz joined TVE (Spanish Television), where she was part of the editing team of the evening edition of the daily news broadcast and was in charge of presenting the weekly roundup Informe Semanal. Subsequently, she anchored the morning news broadcast, the special programmes on the Euro offered by TVE’s news programmes, and was a correspondent covering current events in different locations all over the world. After that, she rejoined the editing team of the evening news broadcast, which she co-anchored. She received the "Larra" Award, awarded by the Madrid Press Association to the most distinguished young journalist of the year.
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