Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano (born 15 September 1972) is Queen of Spain, the wife of King Felipe VI. She came from a middle-class family and worked as a journalist for ABC and EFE before becoming a news anchor at CNN+ and Televisión Española. In 2004, she married Felipe, then Prince of Asturias and heir apparent to the Spanish throne. Their daughters, Leonor and Sofía, were born in 2005 and 2007 respectively. As Princess of Asturias, Letizia represented her father-in-law, King Juan Carlos, in Spain and abroad. On her father-in-law's abdication in June 2014, Felipe and Letizia became king and queen. Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano (Oviedo, 15 de septiembre de 1972) es la reina consorte de España por su matrimonio con el rey Felipe VI. Periodista de profesión, es la primera esposa de un rey de España que no pertenece a la realeza, es además la cuarta consorte de un soberano español nacida en España solo después de la archiduquesa Ana de Austria, esposa del rey Felipe II, del infante Francisco de Asís de Borbón, esposo de la reina Isabel II, y de la princesa María de las Mercedes de Orleans, esposa del rey Alfonso XII. Antes de su matrimonio, Letizia ejerció de periodista y trabajó en varios periódicos y cadenas de televisión, siendo presentadora del Telediario de Televisión Española hasta pocos meses antes de casarse con el entonces príncipe Felipe, el 22 de mayo de 2004. BiographyLetizia was born at Miñor Sanatorium at Oviedo, Asturias, the eldest daughter of Jesús José Ortiz Álvarez, a journalist, and his first wife, María de la Paloma Rocasolano Rodríguez, a registered nurse and hospital union representative.[2] She has two younger sisters, Telma (b. 1973) and Érika (1975–2007), whose death was widely reported by press as due to an intentional prescription drug overdose. She was baptised in the Catholic Church on 29 September 1972, in Oviedo. Her parents divorced in 1999 and her father remarried. Letizia's paternal grandmother was a radio broadcaster in Asturias for over 40 years. Reports have suggested – and remain unproven – that on her paternal grandfather's side, Letizia is a descendant of an untitled family descended from medieval nobility who served as constables of Castile. Her maternal grandfather was of French and Occitan origin, and her maternal grandmother was born in the Philippines to Filipino and Spanish parents. Letizia completed a bachelor's degree in journalism, at the Complutense University of Madrid, as well as a master's degree in audiovisual journalism at the Institute for Studies in Audiovisual Journalism. During her studies, Letizia worked for the Asturian daily newspaper La Nueva España and later for the newspaper ABC and the news agency EFE. After completing her master's degree, she travelled to Guadalajara, Mexico, where she worked at the newspaper Siglo 21 and began work toward a PhD. She did not, however, complete her doctoral thesis because she returned to Spain. After returning to Spain, she worked for the Spanish version of the economic channel Bloomberg before moving to the news network CNN+. Letizia married Alonso Guerrero Pérez (born in 1962), a writer and a high-school literature teacher, on 7 August 1998, in a simple civil ceremony at Almendralejo, in Badajoz, after a 10-year courtship. The marriage was dissolved by divorce in 1999. In 2000, she moved to TVE, where she started working for the news channel 24 Horas. In 2002, she anchored the weekly news report programme Informe Semanal and later the daily morning news programme Telediario Matinal on TVE 1. In August 2003, a few months before her engagement to Felipe, Letizia was promoted to anchor of the TVE daily evening news programme Telediario 2, the most viewed newscast in Spain. On 1 November 2003, to the surprise of many, the Royal Household announced Letizia's engagement to Felipe, then Prince of Asturias. Afterwards, she moved to live in a wing of the Zarzuela Palace until the day of her wedding. The Prince of Asturias had proposed to her with a 16-baguette diamond engagement ring with a white gold trim. She marked the occasion by giving him white gold and sapphire cufflinks and a classic book. The wedding took place on 22 May 2004 in the Cathedral Santa María la Real de la Almudena in Madrid. It was the first royal wedding in this cathedral. It had been nearly a century since the capital celebrated a royal wedding, as the prince's parents married in Athens, and his sisters, Infanta Elena and Infanta Cristina, married in Seville and Barcelona respectively. Letizia's bridal gown was designed by Spanish fashion designer Manuel Pertegaz, her bridal shoes by Pura López; and the veil, a gift from Felipe to his bride, was made of off-white silk tulle and hand-embroidered with detailing. As Letizia's previous marriage involved only a civil ceremony, the Catholic Church does not consider it canonically valid and therefore did not require an annulment to proceed with a Catholic marriage to the Prince of Asturias. Letizia and Felipe have two daughters: Leonor, Princess of Asturias, born on 31 October 2005; and Infanta Sofía, born on 29 April 2007. They were born at Ruber International Hospital in Madrid. As Princess of Asturias, Letizia immediately joined in the duties of her husband and traveled extensively through Spain representing her father-in-law. They also represented Spain in other countries: she has traveled along with her husband to Jordan, Mexico, Peru, Hungary, the Dominican Republic, Panama, the United States of America, Serbia, Brazil, Uruguay, Sweden, Denmark, Japan, China, and Portugal. She also greeted international dignitaries, along with other members of the royal family, and attended gatherings of foreign royalty in Luxembourg, for the silver wedding anniversary of the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, and in the Netherlands for the 40th birthday of the Prince of Orange. Her solo agenda was announced in 2006, shortly after the announcement of her second pregnancy. Letizia has performed a couple of audiences and her work focuses on social issues such as children rights, culture, and education. In late 2007, her solo agenda started to grow in the quantity of events she performed by herself and Felipe's and Letizia's agendas became more distinct and separate. Letizia supported Spanish designers, from couturiers such as Felipe Varela and Lorenzo Caprile to Zara and Mango, and continues to as queen consort. On 19 June 2014, Letizia became Queen of Spain; as such, she holds the style of Majesty. She is the first Spanish-born queen consort since Mercedes of Orléans, the first wife of Alfonso XII, in 1878. She is also the first Spanish queen to have been born as a commoner. Queen Letizia undertook her first solo engagement as queen on 23 June 2014 at the inauguration of the El Greco and modern painting exhibition at the National Prado museum in Madrid. In 2015, Letizia was named Special Ambassador for Nutrition for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. Letizia and Felipe and the princesses reside at the same residence where they have lived since 2004. It is stated that the Palace of Zarzuela is a working place only for Felipe. At the time of her marriage to Prince Felipe, Letizia was appointed to the Grand Cross of the Royal and Distinguished Order of Charles III as dame on 21 May 2004. Since then, Letizia has received different appointments and decorations by foreign states and other Spanish honours. BiografíaLetizia Ortiz nació el 15 de septiembre de 1972 en el Sanatorio Miñor de Oviedo, Asturias, es la hija mayor del periodista Jesús José Ortiz Álvarez (24 de diciembre de 1949) y de María Paloma Rocasolano Rodríguez (15 de abril de 1952). Los padres de Letizia estuvieron casados desde 1971 hasta su divorcio en 1999, y tuvieron dos hijas más: Telma economista que trabajó para Médicos sin Fronteras y como subdirectora de Relaciones Internacionales en el Ayuntamiento de Barcelona (de 2009 a 2012), y Érika, que trabajó como interiorista y diseñadora gráfica de la productora Globomedia. La abuela paterna de Letizia Ortiz, Menchu Álvarez del Valle, fue locutora de radio en Asturias durante más de 40 años. El 29 de septiembre de 1972 fue bautizada en la Parroquia de San Francisco de Asís de Oviedo. Recibió la Educación General Básica en el Colegio público La Gesta de Oviedo y continuó sus estudios en el Instituto Alfonso II, a la vez que recibía clases de ballet tres días a la semana. Debido al trabajo de su padre, toda la familia tuvo que trasladarse a vivir a la localidad de Rivas-Vaciamadrid por lo que Letizia Ortiz, que contaba con 15 años, prosiguió su formación en el Instituto Ramiro de Maeztu. Tras terminar el bachillerato, Ortiz se matriculó en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, en la que se licenció en Ciencias de la Información, rama de periodismo. Todavía en la facultad, empezó a colaborar con el diario ABC y con la Agencia EFE, integrándose en el área de política internacional de ésta durante el último año de carrera. Más tarde, entre 1992 y 1993, realizó prácticas como becaria en el periódico La Nueva España de Oviedo, dedicándose a las áreas de economía, televisión y espectáculos. A continuación obtuvo un máster en información audiovisual y viajó a Guadalajara (México) para comenzar sus estudios de doctorado (que no terminó) y trabajar en el diario Siglo 21. El 7 de agosto de 1998, Letizia Ortiz y Alonso Guerrero Pérez, profesor de Lengua y Literatura en el Instituto Ramiro de Maeztu de Madrid, en el que ella había estudiado, contrajeron matrimonio civil en el Salón de Plenos del Ayuntamiento de Almendralejo, Badajoz, tras un noviazgo de cerca de diez años. Letizia y Alonso se divorciaron en 1999. Letizia Ortiz empezó a trabajar en televisión en CNN, un canal privado de noticias del Grupo PRISA. También trabajó antes, de 1997 a 1999, en la cadena estadounidense Bloomberg TV, otro canal privado, especializado en economía, finanzas y mercados, con sede en España, bajo la supervisión de la Agencia EFE Televisión. Letizia Ortiz recibió en 2000 el Premio Mariano José de Larra que concede la Asociación de la Prensa de Madrid por su labor como Mejor periodista menor de 30 años. Se incorporó en 2000 a la televisión pública estatal, Televisión Española, donde se hizo cargo de la presentación de Informe semanal en verano, y posteriormente trabajó con el equipo de edición de Telediario segunda edición, que alcanzaba audiencias de cuatro millones de personas a partir de 2003. También presentó el Telediario matinal, los especiales sobre el euro que se ofrecieron en los Telediarios de TVE y fue enviada especial a diferentes puntos de todo el mundo para cubrir acontecimientos de actualidad, como los atentados del 11 de septiembre de 2001, el hundimiento del Prestige o la invasión de Irak. Meses antes del anuncio de compromiso con el Príncipe, comenzó a copresentar el Telediario con más audiencia de TVE, la segunda edición. La Casa de Su Majestad el Rey de España anunció el 1 de noviembre de 2003 el compromiso matrimonial de la periodista con el Príncipe de Asturias, Felipe de Borbón. Tal anuncio fue una auténtica sorpresa para la opinión pública y los medios de comunicación, ya que se desconocía que hubiese cualquier tipo de relación entre ambos. La petición de mano se produjo el 6 de noviembre de 2003 en el Palacio Real de El Pardo y a la que acudieron la familia Borbón-Grecia y la Ortiz-Rocasolano al completo. La boda de Estado se celebró el 22 de mayo de 2004 en la Catedral de Santa María la Real de La Almudena de Madrid. Al acontecimiento asistieron representantes de 12 casas reales reinantes y otros 12 pertenecientes a casas reales no reinantes. En este momento, Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano se convirtió, de acuerdo al Real Decreto sobre títulos, tratamientos y honores de la Familia Real, en princesa de Asturias. El matrimonio tiene dos hijas: -Leonor, princesa de Asturias (31 de octubre de 2005) primera en la línea sucesoria de la Corona española. -Infanta Sofía de España (29 de abril de 2007) segunda en la línea de sucesión al trono español. Recibió el nombre de su abuela paterna, la reina Sofía. La princesa se unió a las funciones de su marido y viajó extensamente por España en representación del rey Juan Carlos, participando en numerosos actos oficiales. También viajó fuera de España en nombre de la Corona: junto con el entonces príncipe, visitó Jordania, México, Perú, Hungría, la República Dominicana, Panamá, Estados Unidos, Serbia, Brasil, Uruguay, Suecia, Dinamarca, Japón, China y Portugal. En estos viajes tuvo ocasión de reunirse con dignatarios internacionales, junto a otros miembros de la familia real. Letizia asistió a las reuniones de la realeza europea en Luxemburgo, con ocasión de las bodas de plata del gran duque Enrique y la gran duquesa Teresa, y en Holanda en el 40 cumpleaños del príncipe de Orange. También asistió, en compañía de su esposo, a los esponsales de la princesa Victoria de Suecia y el príncipe Daniel, a los de Guillermo de Cambridge y Catalina y a los del heredero de Luxemburgo, entre otros muchos eventos. Su agenda en solitario comenzó en 2006, poco después del anuncio de su segundo embarazo. A finales de 2007, su agenda propia comenzó a crecer y a diferenciarse de la del príncipe Felipe, participando en numerosos eventos y actos en solitario a partir de entonces. La princesa mostró su interés en temas sociales como las enfermedades raras, la lucha contra el cáncer y la promoción y difusión de la cultura. El 2 de junio de 2014, el presidente del gobierno Mariano Rajoy anunció la abdicación del rey Juan Carlos I en su hijo el príncipe Felipe, por lo que Letizia Ortiz se convirtió en reina de España el 19 de junio de 2014, día en que Felipe VI fue proclamado rey.
Letizia Ortiz, para el acto de proclamación llevaba el lazo de la gran cruz de la Orden de Carlos III, de la que es dama desde su enlace en 2004.
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Georges de Feure (real name Georges Joseph van Sluÿters, 6 September 1868 – 26 November 1943) was a French painter, theatrical designer, and industrial art designer in the symbolism and Art Nouveau styles. De Feure was born in Paris. His father was an affluent Dutch architect, and his mother was Belgian. In the 70s, the family had to move to the Netherlands due to the Franco-Prussian war, and they were back to Paris in the 80s. In 1886, de Feure was one of the eleven students admitted at the Rijkscademievoor Beeldende Kunsten(Royal Academy of Arts) in Amsterdam, but he left for Paris in 1889 since he felt that formal academic training had nothing to offer him. Being of very independent nature, de Feure never again took up formal artistic studies, and forged his own independent path. Georges de Feure lived in Montmarte, and became part of the bohemian community. Later he would become friend of Claude Debussy, Erik Satie and Maurice Ravel. His main subject was woman, not any woman in particular, but woman as an ideal, as an existence, beautiful yet anxious, sometimes he even put them in menacing environment to show their anxiety. In 1890, Georges was recognised by French painter Puvis de Chavannes as one of the most important painters of French Symbolism movement. Between 1890 to 1900, Georges de Feure was not only painter, but also poster designer and illustrator. He was influenced by Jules Chéret in his posters for the café concert but most likely was never his pupil. « un des ensembles décoratifs les plus exquis et parfaits que notre époque ait créés » From 1900, the career of the artist took a different direction. Samuel Bing (1838-1905), founder of the House of Art Nouveau, asked him to design the facade of the Pavilion of Art Nouveau at l'Exposition Universelle de 1900 and later also some part of the interiors as well as some furniture. This is the beginning of a fruitful collaboration, Georges de Feure would design not only furniture but also vases and jewellery. Afterwards, Georges de Feure also worked for newspapers, created theatre designs for Le Chat Noir cabaret and posters. In August 1901, de Feure was nominated Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur for his contribution to the decorative arts. In 1903, there held a retrospective exhibition in Paris of Georges de Feure, and after that he went to Hambourg and La Haye. During the first 10 years of 20th century, he continued his decorative design, and his style slowly evolved from Art Nouveau to that of Art Deco. During the First World War, he moved to London where he designed costumes and set for the theatres. In the 1920s, he was artistic adviser for the shops of French haute couturiere Madeleine Vionnet. In 1943, Georges de Feure died in poverty at the age of 75 years in the occupied Paris. Further interestProfileEdward Henry Molyneux (5 September 1891 in Hampstead, London – 23 March 1974 in Monte Carlo) was a leading British fashion designer whose salon in Paris was in operation from 1919 until 1950. He was characterized as a modernist designer that played with the refinements of couture style, a modernist aesthetic, and the desire to be socially and culturally advanced. BiographyEdward Molyneux was born in London to Justin Molyneux and Lizzy Kenny, of Irish and French Huguenot ancestry. He attended Beaumont College, a Roman Catholic preparatory school. Owing to the death of his father, he dropped out at age 16 to support himself and his mother while pursuing ambitions as a painter and illustrator. Molyneux soon found employment as a sketch artist for the London magazine Smart Set where his drawings of fashionable women attracted the attention of the celebrated couturier Lucile (in private life Lady Duff Gordon). She hired him as a sketcher in her London salon in 1910 and by the end of the following year had promoted him to assistant designer at her Paris branch. Working for Lucile in London, Paris and New York until the outbreak of World War I, Molyneux joined the British Army's Duke of Wellington regiment with which he fought in the Battle of Arras, attaining the rank of captain but losing the sight in one eye. He returned to work for Lucile after being invalided out of the war but a disagreement with her resulted in his termination in 1919. Molyneux opened his own fashion house in Paris at 14 rue Royale in November 1919 (later, 5 rue Royale). Foreign Office diplomat Harold Nicolson, with whom he had a relation, helped finance the opening of Edward Molyneux's first Paris salon. Although married to writer Vita Sackville-West, Nicolson was open with her about his affairs, including his fling with Molyneux. In 1923 Edward Molyneux married (Jessie) Muriel Dunsmuir (1890–1951), one of eight daughters of the Hon. James Dunsmuir, Premier of British Columbia. They divorced in 1924. But Molyneux's business went well. His Paris salon expanded in the next years, first to Monte Carlo in 1925, then to Cannes in 1927, and then to London in 1932. He quickly became known for an impeccably refined simplicity. Molyneux was, as historian Caroline Milbank wrote, "the designer to whom a fashionable woman would turn if she wanted to be absolutely right without being utterly predictable in the Twenties and Thirties." Frowning on superfluous decoration, he regularly dressed European royals, including Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent. In 1934, he designed the wedding dress Princess Marina who was to be married on 29 November of that year to Prince George, Duke of Kent. The wedding dress was in white and silver silk brocade which featured "sheath silhouette, a draped cowl neckline, trumpet sleeves, and a wide train." The wedding of Prince George and Princess Marina was the first royal wedding ceremony to be broadcast by wireless locally and abroad to other nations, which greatly increased Molyneux's fame as well. Princess Marina now Duchess of Kent would continue to be his client, and many actresses like Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Gertrude Lawrence, Margaret Leighton, and Vivien Leigh also wore his designs. His Proteges included future couturiers Christian Dior and Pierre Balmain, and he was friends with playwright Noël Coward. During World War II, he moved his firm to London for the duration of the conflict and returned to Paris in 1946. Retiring in 1950, Molyneux left his fashion house in the hands of Jacques Griffe. He resumed designing in 1964, opening Studio Molyneux, a high quality ready-to-wear line that received mixed reviews. During this period Time magazine described him as "the Parisian equivalent of Manhattan's Mainbocher, a classicist devoted to the soft look and tailored line." He retired again in 1969, but Studio Molyneux continued under the direction of his cousin John Tullis until it closed in 1977. The Molyneux trademark is owned by French company Parfums Berdoues, and though the fashion component of the firm remains dormant, the firm still produces scents, such as Captain (1975), Quartz (1978), Le Chic, Vivre, I Love You and Quartz Pure Red (2008). Molyneux painted throughout his life, and exhibitions of his paintings were held at the Galerie Weill in Paris (between 1950–1956) and at the Hammer Galleries in New York (1967) where his painting Carnations in Vase was purchased by the Duke of Windsor and his wife Duchess of Windsor, and Roses in Glass by Greta Garbo. Molyneux's Uncle, Maj. Edward Mary Joseph Molyneux, during his years in the Himalayan Valley of Kashmir, painted many scenes of the capital city of Srinagar and other areas which inspired him. The paintings were published in a book titled Kashmir accompanied by descriptions of the Valley by Francis Younghusband. Captain Molyneux also amassed an extensive Impressionist art collection, including paintings by Picasso, Monet, Manet and 17 by Renoir. They were sold as a lot to Ailsa Mellon Bruce, who bestowed the entire collection on the National Gallery of Art. Further interestWebsites
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