Overview
- The couple kept their relationship private for about a year before announcing their engagement and appearing for the first time as an engaged pair on November 6, 2003.
- They married in a widely watched ceremony at Madrid’s Almudena Cathedral in May 2004 that became a global media event.
- Letizia left her job as a TVE news presenter the day she went public and was notable at the engagement for speaking confidently to the press.
- Felipe’s choice of a divorced, non‑aristocratic partner was widely reported as a deliberate break with royal norms and has been framed as a move toward modernizing the Casa Real.
- The couple’s family milestones and Felipe’s accession after King Juan Carlos’s 2014 abdication tied their personal story to questions of succession and the monarchy’s institutional image.