“（Ortiz） 7）pulls off that trick of being glamorous but recognizable. She doesn’t embarrass herself and looks dignified，” Mary Vincent， a professor of modern European history at Britain’s University of Sheffield， told The Associated Press recently. “She wears clothes other women imagine themselves wearing.”
Ortiz was born in Oviedo， the capital city in northern Spain， to parents Jesus Alvarez， a journalist， and Maria Rodriguez， a nurse. Her grandfather was a taxi-driver.
Ortiz’s ambition soon upstaged her modest upbringing， and she moved to Madrid to study communications and complete her Master’s in broadcast journalism. After a brief stint working in Mexico， Ortiz returned to Spain as a television personality for TVE， Bloomberg Television， and CNN+. She was one of the international reporters working from the ground in New York during the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
She also won the Madrid Press Association’s prestigious Larra Award for the best Spanish journalist under the age of 30. It was at the scene of the Prestige oil spill in Northern Spain where she met then-Prince Felipe. They dated discreetly until their engagement was announced.
The engagement was not scandal-free. She had been previously married， another first for the 8）staunchly conservative and Catholic monarchy. The church decided to allow the divorcee to remarry after considering the 9）brevity of the marriage—she had only been married for a year—and the fact that they weren’t married in a church.
More rumours started to spread after that. A cousin of hers wrote a book about a secret 10）abortion that allegedly occurred in 2002， and gossip would eventually tell a tale of teenage drug use and plastic surgery， although this has been attributed to a 11）respiratory condition.
Despite all of this， Ortiz has been able to stand her ground and manage the responsibilities attributed with the royal title. In addition to being the first commoner to sit on the throne， Ortiz is also the first Spanishborn Queen since 1904.
凱特·米德爾頓，準備好，要被人搶鏡頭了：你那來自南方的王室“勁敵”將要成為比你更奪目的大寵兒。
費利佩六世在六月份登基，但是許多人已經把視線投向他41歲的妻子——萊蒂齊亞·奧爾蒂斯，她成為了西班牙首位平民王後。
從失婚記者到王室王妃，人們對於萊蒂齊亞王後的關注早已有之，而新頭銜將使她的生活更為人矚目。
一直以來，西班牙媒體就對這對王室情侶的戀愛史，以及十年的婚姻窮追不舍，而隨著胡安·卡洛斯把王位交給自己的兒子，費利佩和萊蒂齊亞更被一下子推向大眾的視線焦點。