2023-12-24 11:16:28
Jaime Peñafiel’s book is incendiary. It presents Queen Letizia as a seductive and ambitious woman who never had a problem dating whoever she wanted to advance. The author, one of the journalists who knows royalty best, assures that in the life of the beautiful journalist there were more of her qualities than her defects, but he recounts the latter without mercy.
Peñafiel tells of the queen’s love affairs, her supposed abortions and her desire to have power by marrying the heir to the throne. Throughout his story, he narrates scenes of the moments when he, as a royal journalist, learned about the past of who she would be queen.
One of them is a call she received from Guadalajara (Mexico), a place where Letizia had done a professional internship. Peñafiel says that one day her phone rang and on the other end of the line there was a woman who introduced herself like this:
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“I am the wife of the director of Siglo XXI, the newspaper where Letizia worked during her stay in Guadalajara in 1995 as a reporter for the supplement Tentaciones, a position she earned by hooking up with the big boss, my husband. “What a kind of queen you have…!” the lady told her at the beginning of 2014.
The woman provided more details. She told him that at that time the newspaper was run by her husband, and she “seduced him without respecting that he was a married man and father of five children.”
She added that after learning that truth, she “could not digest that prolonged deception that everyone knew about. She was the cuckold from the newspaper. My husband was so in love with Letizia that, when she returned to Spain, he spent days mourning her departure. Afterwards, I decided to ask for a divorce.”
Peñafiel checked who had been the director of that newspaper for that date and found that a renowned Mexican journalist, Jorge Zepeda, who had just won the Planeta award that was awarded in Spain, was in charge. He rebuked him personally and said: “Have you been Letizia’s lover?”
The man responded shockingly in what the author of the book, assures, was a natural and spontaneous reaction: “It wasn’t me, but the director.” After searching more, he found that at the time there was an editorial director named Luis Miguel González.
Letizia Ortiz and the then Prince of Asturias married in 2004. They had met two years before. A decade later, both would become kings of Spain. | Photo: getty images
“He loved and respected her so much that, when he found out that Letizia was marrying Prince Felipe, he sent an email to all his friends asking them, under no circumstances, to talk about the romantic relationship he had had with her. A gentleman! But a gentleman who had no qualms about falling in love being, as he was, a married man. It was a very passionate relationship, and passion makes you forget everything. «She was very daring. She had that attitude of someone who allowed herself to knock on doors with little caution and she approached everything that caught her attention. “She was very ambitious and disciplined,” Luis Miguel González acknowledged to Francisco Hernández.”
The queen’s lover
Peñafiel’s book has royalty on edge. Letizia and I, has become a bestseller since its launch on November 21.
In these pages, Peñafiel collects, among other voices, the testimony of Jaime del Burgo, a lawyer who confessed to having a love relationship with the queen since 2002, just around the time she met the Prince of Asturias. Romance that at first seemed temporary, since in fact the queen until recently had had a public relationship with another journalist, David Tejera.
The kings of Spain reappear after the infidelity scandal involving Letizia Ortiz (Photo by Carlos Alvarez/GC Images) | Photo: GC Images
The relationship, according to Del Burgo’s story, would have continued until 2004, the year of the royal wedding, and ended just two days before the world witnessed one of the most emotional weddings in the history of the world. Spanish crown.
A breakup with dramatic overtones: Del Burgo – hurt by Letizia’s decision – married, out of spite, Telma Ortiz, sister of the queen.
But the flame of love between Felipe de Borbón’s wife and her foul-mouthed lover never went out: according to Peñafiel, the passionate romance was ignited again in 2013. Since then, the couple – being brothers-in-law – managed to see each other secretly. , apparently at the Fairmont Juan Carlos I hotel, which – what a paradox – owes its name to Letizia’s father-in-law. A year later, the prince became king and in 2016 Del Burgo divorced Telma.
Del Burgo even published a series of messages on X at the beginning of December in which he reiterated everything he had told Peñafiel. Among those comments, which were later deleted, was a photo that the queen had sent her during one of her two pregnancies with an affectionate and compromising text: “Love. I’m wearing your pashmina. It’s like feeling you next to me. He takes care of me. Protects me. I count the hours until we see each other again. Loving You. Out of here. Yours”.
The selfie that has Queen Letizia of Spain in trouble. | Photo: The selfie that has Queen Letizia of Spain in trouble.
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