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Felipe de Borbon is king of Spain

PHOTOS:Felipe de Borbon is king of Spain

Monarchy was restored in 1975 on the death of dictator General Francisco Franco.Felipe wed former television presenter Letizia Ortiz in a glittering ceremony in Madrid's Almudena Cathedral in 2004 after several previous romantic dalliances, including one with a Norwegian lingerie model. Ortiz, a 41-year-old divorcee, was the first commoner to come in line for the Spanish throne. The couple have two blond daughters - Leonor, born in October 2005 and Sofia, born in April 2007.He has two older sisters, Elena and Cristina, but under the 1978 constitution Felipe enjoys direct right of ascendency to the crown as the sole male heir