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After the announcement, all national media immediately switched to blanket coverage of the royal pregnancy, with state radio broadcasting full biographies of Felipe and Letizia to the sound of romantic piano music.
Even television coverage of the Formula One Spanish Grand Prix in Barcelona, due to take place later on Sunday, was taken over by excitement at the news. Anchors converged on King Juan Carlos when he arrived at the course to ask him about it.
"All the family is very happy, my grandchildren are saying they're going to have a new cousin, so it's all wonderful," the king said.
If the royal couple were to have a girl, she could be the first Spanish princess to have the same right as a boy to accede to the throne, under a plan announced by the Socialist government in March.
While not banning women from the throne as Japan does, Spain gives precedence to the male line. The government is seeking an opinion on a possible change to the rule from the State Council -- a body made up of elder statesmen, former ministers, judges and civil servants.
There is no suggestion that Felipe would step aside in favor of his two older sisters, but a change would affect his children.
Felipe's elder sisters Elena and Cristina have five children between them -- four of them boys -- and one on the way.
At the official announcement of his engagement, Felipe was asked how many children he wanted. "Well, we can't say with complete certainty. The intention is perhaps more than two and fewer than five," he answered, to the apparent astonishment of his fiancee.