King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia (Josefina Blanco – Europa Press)
They say that no one is saved from death and deception – to use an appropriate expression. Not even kings. However, when a leaf conflict enters a palace, an international scandal usually breaks out. And that's exactly what happened in the last few hours after an alleged infidelity came to light Queen Letizia would have committed herself to this in the first few years of her current marriage King Felipe VIby pursuing a romantic relationship with none other than his ex-brother-in-law.
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This time it wasn't the journalists who uncovered the affair, but the man himself. Jaime del BurgoEx-husband of Thelma Ortiz, Letizia's sister, who took to her social networks to tell the world that she had a close relationship with the former journalist. And he did it at the exact moment the monarch was in Argentina attending the inauguration ceremony of the new president. Javier Milei. Some say that this is why Felipe's face looked so grim. And then there was nothing else to talk about in the Palacio de la Zarzuela.
Del Burgo, a lawyer and businessman from Navarre, was married to the queen's sister between 2012 and 2016. However, on December 4, he revealed that before becoming his brother-in-law, he had had a romantic relationship with Letizia. Along with a photo of the monarch in a black pashmina, taken on his phone in what was supposed to be a bathroom and when she was apparently pregnant, the man wrote: “All love. I'm wearing your pashmina. It's like I feel you next to me. He takes care of me. Protect me. I'm counting the hours until we see each other again. Loving You. Get out of here. Your“.
But that was not all. On the same social network, the alleged lover of the current queen referred to the Spanish journalist's book Jaime Penafeldexplicitly confronted with the Spanish Crown under the title Letizia and me He recognized his alleged infidelity. And he was responsible for clarifying the various “stages” that the author of the publication highlights in his text. “1) Romantic relationship, from 2002 to 2004; 2) friends and confidants, from 2004 to 2010; 3) Long-lasting and continuous romantic relationship, 2010 and 2011; 4) As brother-in-law, 2012 to 2016. “It is the third relationship that ends abruptly after two years, a few months after Letizia Ortiz stepped down as Princess of Asturias, divorced Felipe and settled as a couple in New York, which is what we had planned,” he explained. Castle.
Jaime del Burgo's post about Letizia in X (ex Twitter), which triggered the scandal
It should be noted that Letizia's two pregnancies were a single one in 2005, when she was expecting Eleanorand the other in 2007 when she carried Sofia, which would put the image the man shared with his followers at the “friends and confidants” level by his own definition. Del Burgo then decided to delete all of these posts. However, the fuse of the scandal had already been lit and it didn't take long for it to explode and spread all over the media.
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