Royal in red! Queen Letizia of Spain cuts an elegant figure as she joins King Felipe to meet with Spanish Olympic team ahead of Tokyo Games
Queen Letizia of Spain cut an elegant figure in a red gown today as she joined her husband King Felipe VI to meet the Spanish Olympic team and the Moncloa Palace in Madrid.
The royal, 48, dressed for the Spanish summer in a pretty A-line dress with stylish pleats and towering red heel.
Her dress featured a trendy zip detail down the front and pretty capped sleeves which showed off her well-toned arms.
Queen Letizia of Spain cut an elegant figure in a red gown today as she joined her husband King Felipe VI to meet the Spanish Olympic team and the Moncloa Palace in Madrid
The royal, 48, dressed for the Spanish summer in a pretty A-line dress with stylish pleats and towering red heel.
Wearing her dark hair down and straight, Letizia opted for a natural make-up look while staying Covid-safe in a protective face mask.
The monarch wore a simple lick of mascara on her fave and kept the look simple with no jewellery.
Meanwhile her husband King Felipe, 53, looked smart in two piece grey suit with a blue and red striped tie.
The couple met with Spanish Olympic Committee’s President, Alejandro Blanco as well as several athletes ahead of their journey to Tokyo next week.
The couple met with Spanish Olympic Committee’s President, Alejandro Blanco as well as several athletes ahead of their journey to Tokyo next week.
Letizia is pictured with an athlete ahead of the Olympic games which will kick off next week
The delayed Olympic Games in Tokyo kicks off next week and will see 339 medal events crammed into a 19-day period, with two sports kicking off before the opening ceremony.
Group matches in women’s football and softball will be played on Wednesday, two days before Friday’s opening ceremony at Japan’s National stadium.
This is to ensure all the longer events can be squeezed in before the closing ceremony on 8th August as well as making sure there are no significant clashes on TV.
Tokyo is eight hours ahead of the UK and most events will take place from around midnight to 3pm, but some events such as the marathons, race walks and triathlons, will start earlier.
Wearing her dark hair down and straight, Letizia opted for a natural make-up look while staying Covid-safe in a protective face mask. Letizia is pictured with atheletes
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Mother-of-two Letizia enjoyed a long career in TV and newspaper reporting before marrying her husband King Felipe in 2004.
She worked for the La Nueva Espana before moving on to the ABC, a popular national newspaper.
She then worked for the EFE news agency, a Mexican local paper Siglo 21, the Spanish version of Bloomberg, before moving to CNN+.
When she met her husband-to-be, Letizia was working for the popular TV channel 24Horas as both a breaking news reporter and anchor for their popular Telediaro 2 evening news bulletin.
Her dress featured a trendy zip detail down the front and pretty capped sleeves which showed off her well-toned arms
She met Felipe VI at a dinner party in 2002, and the pair enjoyed an instant connection, leading to their royal wedding in May 2004.
The former newsreader is the granddaughter of a taxi driver and the eldest daughter of Jesús José Ortiz Álvarez, a journalist, and first wife María de la Paloma Rocasolano Rodríguez, a nurse and hospital union representative.
She attended public high school and did a degree at the Complutense University of Madrid. She later gained an MA in Audiovisual Journalism at the Institute for Studies in Audiovisual Journalism.
King Juan Carlos abdicated in 2014 in favour of his son, now King Felipe VI.