At the Prince of Asturias awards 20 years ago, the then Prince Felipe arrived in Asturias with a secret: For a few months he had been in a romantic relationship with the journalist Letizia Ortiz, with whom he was going to meet in Oviedo a week after their engagement was announced. matrimonial.
On October 24, 2003, the same day that the Prince of Asturias awards were presented, Prince Felipe, as he had done in previous years, visited the set that Spanish Television had installed in one of the rooms of the Reconquista hotel to greet to the journalists and technicians who had worked on the transmission of the ceremony. Among them was Letizia Ortiz, then presenter of the second edition of Telediario, along with Alfredo Urdaci. The images of the greeting were broadcast on the news, but no one noticed the knowing look of Felipe and Letizia. The best kept secret wasn't revealed until a week later.
In 2023, it will be 20 years since that greeting, and on Friday night, after the presentation of the now Princess of Asturias awards, in honor of their daughter Leonor, Felipe and Letizia, now Kings, visited the Television set again Spanish. There they shook hands with the professionals that the public broadcaster has displaced on this occasion and there the Kings sympathetically recreated that greeting between them, which changed the history of Spain.
