What’s behind Jaime del Burgo’s claim that Letizia was unfaithful to King Felipe VI: This is the theory gaining ground

Queen Letizia’s alleged infidelity with her former brother-in-law Jaime del Burgo has caused a storm in the international media and among royal experts. The “Pashmina scandal”, as it was called, continues to give rise to what is being talked about.

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On December 4, Del Burgo ignited controversy by posting a selfie of the queen on her X account, along with a message she allegedly wrote. In addition, he revealed that he had an affair with Letizia while she was already married to the king.

Although he deleted the posts, days later he confirmed their romance, guaranteeing that he “wouldn’t change one iota” of his revelations.

The theory behind Jaime del Burgo’s discovery

Given the controversy, writer, expert on the Spanish royal family, Pilar Eyre, gave her opinion on the businessman’s statements, seeking an explanation for his behavior.

In a video posted on his YouTube channel, Eyre explained that while this is a private matter concerning the monarch’s marriage, there is a strategy behind it all to damage King Philip’s image.

The journalist and author of the book “Yo, el rey” pointed out that it was the international media that mostly contacted her to discuss the issue and that the Spanish press reported little on the controversy.

He assured that “I did not intend to speak about the issue of Letizia, but at your request, if I do not speak, I will fail you and I will fail my journalistic career if I ignore it,” he said at the beginning of the video reviewed by El Plural media.

Letizia “had an affair with her future brother-in-law while she was married to King Felipe”, announced the British press, which joins the “Pashma photo” scandal

Then the expert on the Borbón family said that she was amazed by the unexpected discovery of the businessman who is currently in the limelight.

“I was taken aback this Sunday when I saw your tweet with a photo of Letizia in a pashmina. In a series of previous tweets, Del Burgo reveals something very powerful, admitting that he had an affair with Letizia while she was married to Felipe, giving details and his intimate plans. On Sunday, there was a stage of astonishment in all newsrooms,” he said.

Eyre assured that it was a matter to be settled privately. However, he recalled the crisis that the royal couple went through and which almost ended in divorce.

“It is a private issue, it concerns marriage. I had no idea about this story. I can’t say ‘I already knew that’. I know that then the kings had a serious crisis, Letizia was all alone. There was talk of a crisis in Mallorca that left Felipe and the girls stranded, and he went to Madrid. I attributed it to the crisis with his political family, to Juan Carlos’ anger. “It has always been said that Letizia does not tolerate infidelity like Queen Sofia did,” he said on the YouTube channel.

As for the comparison between Queen Letizia’s alleged infidelity and the skirt affairs carried out by King Juan Carlos at the time, Eyre stated that he would not want to compare the two cases.

Pashmina photo scandal: Why did Jaime del Burgo reveal Queen Letizia’s alleged infidelity to King Felipe VI?

“I don’t like to compare him with Juan Carlos. He was a womanizer and what brought him down was that he was corrupt, not unfaithful. Felipe and Letizia did not get into trouble with kickbacks or corruption. If all this comes to light now, it is to harm Felipe, responded the monarchists who are shouting ‘Felipe out’ because the king will sign laws such as amnesty. “Felipe is constitutive, he has no vote,” the journalist emphasized.

The expert repeated that “what came out of Letizia was a way of attacking her husband, humiliating and ridiculing her.” I think there will be more things that will come to light,” Eyre said.

Censorship in the Spanish press?

Despite the scale of the scandal, Spanish media reported little on the controversy. The Catalan newspaper El Nacional laments the low visibility in the press, citing alleged self-censorship.

“The press fills the pages with secondary stories such as Letizia’s clothes, Pablo Urdangarín’s girlfriends or Victoria Federica’s parties. And now it turns out that no one is publishing that Letizia cheated on Felipe for 2 years with another man,” states the article, which also publishes an alleged photo of the wife and her ex-brother-in-law in New York, which would confirm the alleged romance.

On the other hand, there is silence in the Palacio de la Zarzuela and they have decided not to touch on the subject, at least publicly, trying to diminish its importance. (AND)