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The Queen's purported relationship with prime minister Godoy in combination with her reputed political influence exposed her to the public's discontent over Godoy's Treaty with Napoleonic France, in which French troops were stationed in Spain, and in one incident, the Queen was threatened by a mob and had to be protected by her life guard.
She was the youngest daughter of King Carlos IV of Spain and his wife Maria Luisa of Parma. María Isabel's birth coincided with the rise to power in Spain of her mother's favorite, Manuel Godoy. Court rumour attributed María Isabel's paternity not to the king, but to the young Godoy, who became Spain's prime minister in 1792. [2] [3]
Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano was born on 15 September 1972 at Miñor Sanatorium in Oviedo, 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 was very fond of her first PM – Sir Winston Churchill.
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The groom was the reigning king of Spain since his birth and the bride was a princess from a cadet branch of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt and a granddaughter of Queen Victoria. Celebrations of the wedding were overshadowed by an anarchist bomb attack during the procession back to the palace.
Carlos Alvarez/Getty Images. Queen Letizia, aka Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano, is the wife of King Felipe VI of Spain. After marrying her husband (formerly Prince Felipe of Asturias) in May 2004, she ...
The King and Queen have two daughters. [9] [10] Leonor, Princess of Asturias, is the elder daughter of King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia, [9] and the heir presumptive to the Spanish throne since her father's accession in 2014. [6] She was born on 31 October 2005. [9] Infanta Sofía is the younger daughter of King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia. She ...