Queen Letizia's ex-brother-in-law has sensationally claimed to have had a relationship with the royal family before marrying her sister Telma – sharing a never-before-seen image as 'proof' of their romance.
Jaime Del Burgo, 53, who currently lives in Britain, recently contributed to a tell-all book about the Spanish royal family, where he claims they were still romantically involved after Letizia's 2004 marriage to King Felipe.
The entrepreneur – who claims he was dating Letizia when she met King Felipe – shared an undated selfie that the queen, 51, took in a bathroom mirror during one of her pregnancies as 'proof' of their relationship on X, formerly known as Twitter, last year. night.
The selfie shows the royal in a black pashmina – which Jaime claims was his – and he also typed a message purportedly sent to him by the Spanish Queen.
It read: 'Love. I'm wearing your pashmina. It's like I feel you by my side. It takes care of me.
Last night, businessman Jaime Del Burgo shared this invisible selfie of Queen Letizia with his X followers. He claimed the royal wore his pashmina and said he 'took care of her'
'It protects me. I'm counting the hours until we meet again. Love you. Go away. Yours,'
After sharing the image, other The businessman has now deleted his X account.
A spokesperson for the Spanish royal family told FEMAIL: “We have no comment on this.”
It comes just weeks after Jaime – who was married to Letizia's sister Telma from 2012-2014 – made a series of allegations about his relationship with the Queen in journalist Jaime Peñafiel's new book 'Letizia & I'.
Speak with El Cierre Digital, The author, 91, said Letizia was Jaime del Burgo's “great love” and that the couple's relationship turned into a “great friendship” after she started dating King Felipe.
Local media report that Jamie – the son of former politician Jaime Ignacio del Burgo – planned to propose to Letizia when she announced her relationship with the future king in the gardens of the Ritz hotel in Madrid.
After their engagement was announced in 2003, Letizia – who divorced her first husband in 1999 – asked Jaime to be best man at their wedding.
Pictured: Jaime Del Burgo and his ex-wife Telma Oritz seen in 2012 before their wedding. The couple divorced in 2014
Pictured: King Felipe and Queen Letizia in Madrid last month. The Queen's ex-brother-in-law claims in new book that the royal family suggested they have a baby together via an American surrogate
In the book, Letizia's alleged ex-lover describes Felipe as a “kind-hearted man” and even says he had a “great friendship” with the royal family.
He told the author, “I told him my problems and he told me [me] are.'
However, Jaime claims that even after the wedding in 2004, he was still romantically involved with Letizia and has kept “photos, videos, cell phones” and text messages as evidence.
In the book, Jaime claims that in 2010, Letizia whispered that she loved him as they lay in a hammock by a pool at her home.
The author – who joked that Letizia's alleged ex-lover should have been his co-author – wrote: 'Letizia lay in the same hammock, under the veranda by the pool, facing each other, and said to me: 'I love you' and I replied, 'I love you.'
After this, Jaime claims they “took steps forward with the goal of being free” – which involved seeking legal advice and viewing properties in the US.
Queen Letizia's sister Telma Oritz with her second husband Robert Gavin at the Princess of Asturias Awards in 2019
Pictured: King Felipe and Queen Letizia on their wedding day in Madrid in May 2004. Jaime Del Burgo claims he was going to propose to the newsreader until she announced she had met King Felipe
One of the most damaging claims Jaime is reportedly making is that Queen Letizia reportedly suggested they have a child together with the help of a surrogate mother in Los Angeles.
But in August 2011, Jaime said Letizia abruptly ended their relationship when she called him and said, “We can't keep seeing each other.”
The following year he married Letizia's younger sister Telma Oritz, who used to work in the Barcelona city council.
Author Jamie Peñafiel wrote: “When [Jamie del Burgo] is getting married to Telma, it is Felipe who advises him on the marriage agreements and over the years they have maintained a great friendship.'
In 2012, the couple moved to New York to start their married life, but Telma returned to Barcelona the same year before announcing their final divorce in 2014.
The couple's first divorce attempts were crushed by the groom's father, Jaime Ignacio del Burgo, who told the court that his son and Telma were remorseful and wanted to give their marriage another try.
Telma Ortiz leaves the EDP Gran Via Theater after attending the 'We Choose Earth Tour' on June 22, 2023 in Madrid
Pictured: Queen Letizia during her time as a newsreader for Television Espanola, before her wedding to King Felipe
Telma has since married Irish lawyer Gavin Bonnar and the couple welcomed their first child together in October 2021.
Gavin shares two children with his first wife, musician Sharon Corr.
In the meantime, Jaime remarried the Swedish lawyer Lucía Díaz Liljestrom.
Letizia and Telma tragically lost their younger sister Erika in February 2007 when she died following an intentional drug overdose.
Queen Letizia's younger sister was only 31 years old and left behind her six-year-old daughter Carla.
At the time, the Spanish royal family was six months pregnant with her second daughter: Princess Sofia.
Born on September 15, 1972 in Oviedo, northern Spain, Letizia grew up in a middle-class family and attended public school.
While her mother, Maria Rodriguez, was a nurse, Letizia took after her father, Jesús José Ortiz Álvarez, and stepmother Ana Togores, who are both journalists, and studied communications at the University of Madrid.
She then obtained her master's degree in journalism and after a stint at the Asturian daily La Nueva España, she went to work for ABC, a popular national newspaper with the third largest circulation in Spain.
This was followed by a period at the Spanish news agency EFE before she took a role in the local newspaper Siglo 21 after a move to Guadalajara, Mexico.
Back in Spain a year later, she worked for the Spanish version of Bloomberg, a news channel and agency specializing in economics, before moving to CNN+.
Before meeting Felipe of Spain, Letizia was married to high school literature teacher Alonso Guerrero Perez, who was nine years older than her.
Pictured: King Felipe and Queen Letizia with their eldest daughter, Princess Leonor of Spain, last month
The couple married in 1998 after a ten-year romance, with the pair meeting when the future Spanish queen was just 16.
They married in a civil ceremony in the town of Almendralejo, Badajoz, but divorced the following year.
By the time she met her husband-to-be Felipe in 2002, Letizia was working for the popular TV channel 24 Horas, where in addition to anchoring the popular Telediario 2 evening news bulletin, she covered a wide range of major news events.
As a news anchor, she reported live from Ground Zero after the attacks of September 11, 2001.
The following year she met Prince Felipe – at the site of an oil spill in northern Spain. The year after first meeting Felipe, Letizia resigned and a few days later their engagement was announced.
Letizia and Felipe's wedding in Madrid in 2004 saw a surge in support for the royal family, and her habit of championing high street brands such as Zara proved popular. She and Felipe had two daughters, Leonor in 2005 and Sofia in 2007.