Can you imagine the reaction on Queen Sofia and Queen Letizia's nemesis, Penafiel, when he finds out?
Penafiel has made a lot of
for years in Spain trashing both queens and referring about Letizia as the "
granddaughter of a taxi driver", and that king Juan Carlos should have made his son marry a real foreign princess and not a Spanish woman.
Guess what, to quote from the movie My Fair Lady's party scene, Letizia's ancestry
blood is bluer than the Danube. And
she's not just royal, via king Ferdinand,
but imperial too via his parents
Emperor Alfonso VII (1126-1157) and his first wife Empress Berenguela.
La reina Letizia nunca ha sido plebeya. El árbol genealógico de la esposa del rey Felipe VI realizado por el genealogista Javier Cordero rev
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"...Queen Letizia has never been a commoner. The family tree of the wife of King Felipe VI made by genealogist Javier Cordero reveals that Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano would have the same blue blood as King Ferdinand II of León. The fact has been announced on the Mediaset program Fiesta by Alejandro Entrambasaguas, a journalist who collaborates with the Telecinco weekend program, in addition to working in media such as El Debate. The news has been raised as the result of a year of research, with unpublished documents.
The closest origin would be José Luis, Doña Letizia's paternal grandfather. As explained in the program, José Luis' grandfather would have been born in Portugal and later settled in Servilla. It was José Luis de Torres-Pardo. Later they moved to Córdoba and the Torres-Pardo married the noblewoman Agustina de Castro Serrano, who connects this story. Generations later, the infante Sancho, son of Ferdinand II of León, died in Cañamero (Cáceres). That would be the end of Queen Letizia's family thread, concluded Entrambasaguas, which safeguards more than 10,000 documents for this investigation, he said."
Bonus link: Ferdinand II of León. ?, 1137 – King of León from 1157 until his death.
He is one of the sons and heirs of Emperor Alfonso VII (1126-1157) and his first wife Empress Berenguela, who in turn was the daughter of Count Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona and Dulce of Provence
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