--- title: Princess Letizia New Queen of Spain After Abdication description: Spain's Princess Letizia Ortiz may be a commoner, but her style is anything but ordinary. canonical: https://time.com/2819856/princess-letizia-spain-photos/ author: TIME Photo article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-03T22:17:08.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:42:56.834Z og:title: Princess Letizia New Queen of Spain After Abdication og:description: Spain's Princess Letizia Ortiz may be a commoner, but her style is anything but ordinary. og:url: https://time.com/2819856/princess-letizia-spain-photos/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Princess Letizia New Queen of Spain After Abdication twitter:description: Spain's Princess Letizia Ortiz may be a commoner, but her style is anything but ordinary. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Photos: Meet Princess Letizia, the Next Queen of Spain by [TIME Photo](https://time.com/author/time-photo/) ## TIME Photo Jun 3, 2014 10:17 PM UTC by [TIME Photo](https://time.com/author/time-photo/) ## TIME Photo Jun 3, 2014 10:17 PM UTC  Spanish television journalist Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano sits at a desk. Television Espanola/Getty Images  Princess Letizia of Spain attends Audiences at Zarzuela Palace on October 21, 2013 in Madrid. Fotonoticias/WireImage/Getty Images  Prince Felipe of Bourbon and Letizia Ortiz at Pardo Palace after the official announcement of their engagement In Madrid on November 06, 2003. Alain Benainous—Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images  Princess Letizia Ortiz and Crown Prince Felipe during the Royal Wedding at Alumudena Cathedral in Madrid. Lalo Yasky—WireImage/Getty Images  Princess Letizia in Madrid on October 12, 2005. Alain Benainous—Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images  Princess Letizia and her children at Zarzuela Palace on September 15, 2012 in Madrid. Cristina García Rodero—Royal Press Department/Getty Images  Princess Letizia attends the conference 'The Imporance of Cancer Research' organized by the Spanish Association Against Cancer (AECC) November 13, 2012 in Madrid. Getty Images  Princess Letizia celebrates during a Women's Handball Bronze medal match between Spain and Korea at the London Olympics on August 11, 2012 in London. Pascal Le Segretain—Getty Images  Princess Letizia and Prince Felipe attend a dinner hosted by Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands ahead of her abdication at Rijksmuseum on April 29, 2013 in Amsterdam. Michel Porro—Getty Images Princess Letizia New Queen of Spain After Abdication ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2819856/princess-letizia-spain-photos/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2819856/princess-letizia-spain-photos/"},"headline":"Photos: Meet Princess Letizia, the Next Queen of Spain","datePublished":"2014-06-03T22:17:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:42:56.834Z","description":"Spain's Princess Letizia Ortiz may be a commoner, but her style is anything but ordinary. The former TV journalist will be become Queen of Spain after her husband Prince Felipe takes the throne.","url":"https://time.com/2819856/princess-letizia-spain-photos/","keywords":["Living","fashion","kate middleton","Spain","royals","Queen"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Photo","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-photo/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2819856/princess-letizia-spain-photos/","name":"Photos: Meet Princess Letizia, the Next Queen of Spain"}}]}] ```