Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano was well-known in her own right before joining the Spanish Royal Family, but not as an aristocrat, let alone as a fellow royal.
There s an actress, a financier, a TV news reader and even a model. One or two did nothing at all. But today these royal wives are notable because none of them were aristocrats.
Infanta Sofia of Spain, 16, left her residence at Prince Pavilion near Zarzuela Palace to start school at the UWC Atlantic College in the Welsh county of Vale of Glamorgan.
The 17-year-old heir to the Spanish throne arrived at the General Military Academy of Zaragoza this morning, where she will be assigned to the Cadet Battalion.
A new member of a royal family can often get a bit of a makeover. But Queen Letizia of Spain has had a total transformation since her marriage to King Felipe VI in 2004.