Queen Letizia of Spain’s ex-brother-in-law claims they were romantically involved— even after she married King Felipe
04.12.2023 - 19:43
/ nypost.com
King Charles and Kate Middleton getting outed as the royals who allegedly questioned what baby Archie’s “skin color” would be – but, not to be outdone, now the Spanish royal family is having their own drama. Queen Letizia’s ex-brother-in-law has claimed that he had a relationship with the 51-year-old royal before he married her sister, Telma Ortiz, 50. Jaime Del Burgo, 53, who is currently based in the UK, recently contributed to a tell-all book about Queen Letizia, “Letizia & I,” by journalist Jaime Peñafiel.Del Burgo, who is an entrepreneur and the son of former politician Jaime Ignacio del Burgo, was married to Letizia’s sister Telma from 2012 to 2014.
(After that, Telma married Irish lawyer Gavin Bonnar, who used to be married to musician Sharon Corr, and Telma had their first child at age 47). In the book, Del Burgo claimed that the two were still romantically involved after Letizia tied the knot with King Felipe, 55, in 2004. Before she married Felipe, Letizia previously married literature teacher Alonso Guerrero Perez from 1998 to 1999.
Jaime Del Burgo claims that he was dating Letizia when she met King Felipe, and that he was planning to propose to Letizia when she announced that she was dating a mysterious “diplomat” over dinner at the Mandarin Oriental Ritz hotel in Madrid in 2002.As “proof” to support his claim, in a since-deleted post on X, formerly known as Twitter, he shared a selfie that Letizia took in a bathroom mirror. The photo was not dated. In the selfie, Letizia is wearing a black pashmina, which Jaime claims belonged to him.
He claims that the queen sent him a message with the selfie that read, “Love. I wear your pashmina. It’s like feeling you by my side.
It takes care of me. It protects me. I
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