In 2000 , she moved to TVE , where she started working for the news channel 24 Horas . In 2002 , she anchored the weekly news report programme '' Informe Semanal '' and later the daily morning news programme '' Telediario Matinal '' on TVE 1 . In August 2003 , a few months before her engagement to Felipe , Letizia was promoted to anchor of the TVE daily evening news programme '' Telediario 2 '' , the most viewed newscast in Spain . In 2000 , Letizia reported from Washington , D.C. , on the presidential elections . In September 2001 , she broadcast live from Ground Zero following the 9/11 attacks in New York and in 2003 , she filed reports from Iraq following the war . In 2002 she sent several reports from Galicia in northern Spain following the ecological disaster when the oil tanker '' Prestige '' sank
Prestige
Prestige oil spill
Queen Letizia of Spain