Luck Is With Her--Yesterday's TV Newscaster Is The Queen Of Spain Today

King Felipe VI was crowned sovereign of Spain in Madrid on Thursday and was joined by his wife, now queen Letizia and their daughters Leonor and Sifia, princesses of Asturias.

Felipe, 46, attended the throne after his father Juan Carlos, 72, who abdicated on June 2, after a reign of 39-years.

Felipe's new role as king is largely ceremonial. He was given the title Thursday without coronation but during a special joint session of Spain's parliament, according to World Now. His mother, the former Queen Sofia attended but his father did not. No foreign royals made the scene. King Juan Carlos oversaw Spain's transition to democracy in 1990s. but his most most recent years on the throne were tainted by scandals. Many Spaniards still call for the abolition of monarchy. Queen Letizia, 41, formerly Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano, a commoner started dating Felipe in 2002. She was a journalist and a TV presenter who earned Madrid Press Association's Lara Award for most accomplished journalist younger than 30. Letizia was previously married for a year, but she and her first husband divorced in 1999. She quit her work in 2003, days before Felipe and she announced their engagement and just she had been promoted to an anchor position. As a news anchor person Letizia had been presenting the news about 9/11 from Washington and also. Two years later the attack on

Iraq were also presented by her. She also stayed in Basra for some time and experienced to hide the head like Muslim women.