The Spanish Royal Family reigns as the House of Bourbon, the same dynasty that descends from Louis XIV of France and has held the Spanish throne, with interruptions, since 1700. The current monarch is King Felipe VI, who acceded on 19 June 2014 when his father, King Juan Carlos I, abdicated. Felipe is married to Queen Letizia, a former journalist, and the couple have two daughters: Leonor, Princess of Asturias, and the Infanta Sofía.
The living genogram centres on the succession of Leonor, born in 2005, who as heir presumptive holds the historic title Princess of Asturias reserved for the heir to the Spanish crown. Because Spain still applies male-preference primogeniture, Leonor's position could in theory be displaced only by the birth of a brother; with none, she is set to become Spain's first queen regnant since Isabella II in the nineteenth century. Through 2025 and 2026 she completed a rotation of military training across the army, navy, and air force academies as part of her preparation to reign.
The senior branch of the family remains King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofía, who is herself royal by birth — a princess of Greece and Denmark and sister of the last king of the Hellenes. Juan Carlos, credited with steering Spain from the Franco dictatorship to democracy after 1975, left Spain in 2020 amid financial controversy and has since resided abroad, a separation that reshaped the working family around his son.
The Spanish Bourbons sit on the same tree as the Austrian and Spanish Habsburgs they replaced: when the last Habsburg king of Spain, the childless Charles II, died in 1700, his crown passed to a Bourbon grandson of Louis XIV — Philip V — precisely because Bourbon and Habsburg had earlier intermarried, so that today's Spanish royal house is the genealogical heir to the very dynasty whose extinction created it.
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