Queen Letizia of Spain, her ex and a royal scandal

When El Pais published a profile last year of the Spanish queen, Letizia, a government minister described her as “our most important help. I thought she was cold and distant, but she is professional, normal and fun.” The news from Madrid this week might make fun in short supply for Letizia, and courtiers must be choking on their churros. Jaime del Burgo, a businessman, old friend and ex-boyfriend of Letizia’s, has claimed that he hasn’t always been quite as much of an ex as courtiers might wish. Their romance in fact continued after her marriage in 2004, he claims, and ran until she ended it, in 2011. He published, then deleted, a photo of her when visibly pregnant, claiming that she sent it to him