Sunday, November 2, 2003

A Royal Engagement

Don Felipe de Borbón, prince of Spain and heir apparent to the Spanish crown, has just announced his engagement to a journalist namd Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano.

Prince Felipe and Letizia Ortiz are  likely to provide many entertaining celebrity stories for years to come.

She spells her name "Letizia" instead of the more common "Leticia," because when she was born, the official who recorded her name in the registry of birth was Italian and wrote the name with the Italian spelling. And she's kept it.

Spain is a constitutional monarchy, and the king is largely a symbolic figure with minimal direct influence on governmental policies.

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