The Queen’s alleged lover has dealt a devastating blow to her reputation.
While the whole world was watching the behavior of the British royal family after the publication of Omid Scobie’s new scandalous book, a major scandal broke out in another royal family of Europe. We’re talking about Spain’s 50-year-old Queen Letizia. Jaime del Burgo, a long-time friend of King Felipe VI’s wife and who later married her sister, claims to have had a romantic relationship with Her Majesty. At the time, she was already married to the crown prince, who would later become king, the Telegraph wrote.
According to Del Burgo, he dated Letizia from approximately July 2010 until the end of 2014, before their marriage in 2004 and even after she became a member of the royal family. He shared a photo of Laetitia, clearly pregnant, on social networks. King Felipe and Queen Letizia’s daughters, Leonor and Sofia, were born in 2005 and 2007.
The man claimed that Letizia sent him photos while they were having a relationship.
The caption read, “My love. I wear your shawl (cloak). It’s like feeling you next to me. He takes care of me. He protects me. I’m counting the hours until we see each other again, I love you.”
After the post caused a stir, del Burgo deleted it and published new message.
“I do not replace the comma in my deleted posts. I appreciate messages from those who understand that I have my reasons. I do not hold grudges against those who threaten to kill me. I am not proud. But the truth is “I only know one King of Heaven and his name is Jesus of Nazareth. “He will judge me,” he said.
Why was everything known?
Rumors about the Spanish queen’s relationship with del Burgo emerged after the 53-year-old businessman interviewed the author of a new book about his relationship with the royal family. In the book Letizia and Me by royal reporter Jaime Peñafiel, he claims that Queen Letizia told him she loved him while she and Philip were lounging in hammocks by the pool at La Zarzuela, the royal residence. This led him to write an unpublished play in English called Hammock.
Del Burgo also claimed that Spain’s CNI secret service had been following him for five years and even broke into his home in Switzerland. But efforts to find something were unsuccessful. He kept everything related to his relationship with the Queen – “photos, videos, mobile phones, text messages” – in a bank vault.
The Spaniard admits that he wanted to propose to Letizia, who was a news presenter on Spanish state television at the time and had the ring in her pocket on the evening he first told him about his relationship with Philip. The book does not allege that Letizia had any affairs during her marriage to Philip, but del Burgo now claims the opposite.
A man who was a best man at Philip and Letizia’s wedding added that the future queen begged him the night before the wedding to “never leave her.” He married Thelma Ortiz, the Queen’s sister, in 2012, but the couple divorced two years later.
Despite the information presented in the book, Jaime states that it “does not tell the whole truth.”
Del Burgo, the son of the famous politician Jaime Ignacio del Burgo, president of the Navarre region, lives outside Spain and divides his time between Switzerland and London. He has attracted widespread attention in the past for his complaints about press intrusion while he was married to Queen Letizia’s sister. Jaime also made headlines when he said the public should stand up and ignore quarantine rules during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Reaction to the scandal in Spain
The Spanish royal family has refused to comment on his latest statements, but bloggers and media are outraged on social networks. Many people write that Jaime Peñafiel has long disliked His Majesty and has now revealed his hatred.
“Jaime del Burgo says that he and Letizia Ortiz became lovers for the second time between July 2010 and the end of 2014. The prostitute press remains silent. Now, if you want to serve Spain against the Balkan monarchy in 1978, you will have to do this with political importance start talking things”, “Jaime del Burgo. This man can’t go any lower… These statements were conveyed to Jaime Peñafiel, who, as we all know, has a deadly hatred for Letizia. It all adds up. He is responsible for all the failures and evil that corrupted the PP to divert attention from things. They are so disgusting”, “He (Del Burgo) meets with Jaime Peñafiel to spew the book. Peñafiel is a very right-wing man, a classicist to the core, he hates Queen Letizia so much that he thinks my “If they talked about me like that, I’d be in court 24 hours a day”, “Leticia Reyna, I am a Republican. I am also the victim of a privacy-based crime” About patriarchy. “Jaime del Burgo participates in a smear campaign together with Jaime Peñafiel,” they write in the comments.
Focus previously wrote in August 2023 that Queen Letizia sent her eldest daughter to military exercises.
Source: Focus
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