Queen Letizia of Spain's former brother-in-law claims he's publishing his own tell-all book to share the 'truth' about his bombshell claims they had an 'affair'

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The Queen of Spain’s former brother-in-law has revealed he is preparing to publish his own tell-all book.

UK-based businessman Jaime del Burgo shocked the world in November by alleging he and Letizia were partners before he married her younger sibling Telma Ortiz, who he is now separated from.

He went on to make the astonishing claim he and the former newsreader talked about starting their own family and a new life together in the States during a ‘secret romance’ while she was still with Spain’s King Felipe.

Del Burgo made many of his allegations in an explosive book he contributed to which was published in November by royal expert Jaime Penafiel called ‘Letizia y Yo’ – English for ‘Letizia and I’.

Now he has revealed he is preparing his own autobiographical book – ‘Nothing More Than the Truth’ – in a new hammer blow for the Spanish Royal Family which has reacted so far with silence.

The Queen of Spain Letizia’s (pictured with husband King Felipe) former brother-in-law has revealed he is preparing to publish his own tell-all book

The lawyer and entrepreneur said in a tweet: ‘This week, 12co Books and 12co Libros were created to publish the autobiographical ‘And Nothing But The Truth’ in 2024.

‘This way, we will control the complete process, editing, printing, and distribution.

‘It will be accessible in ebook format for Apple and Kindle and on sale in the leading bookstores in Spain and Latin America, also in North America and some European countries.

‘It will be translated into English, German, Italian and French.

‘The physical book will incorporate a new system in the publishing sector to avoid plagiarism, copies, and leaks.’

He went on to add: ‘The profits of And Nothing But the Truth will be transferred in their entirety to a Spanish charity company (to be announced).’

The 53-year-old dad-of-two stirred up controversy late last year by posting an updated selfie the Spanish Queen took in a bathroom mirror during one of her pregnancies as ‘evidence’ of their supposed romance.

It showed her wearing a pashmina he claims to have gifted her.

UK-based businessman Jaime del Burgo (left)  shocked the world in November by alleging he and Letizia were partners before he married her younger sibling Telma Ortiz, (right) who he is now separated from

The lawyer and entrepreneur said in a tweet: ‘This week, 12co Books and 12co Libros were created to publish the autobiographical ‘And Nothing But The Truth’ in 2024

He also reposted a message, supposedly sent to him by Letizia, which read: ‘Love. I am wearing your pashmina. It’s like feeling you by my side. It takes care of me. It protects me. I’m counting down the hours until we see each other again, until I love you, until I leave here. Yours.’

Del Burgo deleted the claim and others he had uploaded to X, formerly Twitter, before backtracking and reposting many of them after insisting: ‘I don’t change a comma of my deleted posts.’

Before his controversial tweets, he had contributed to veteran journalist Jaime Penafiel’s book about Letizia which many mainstream Spanish media outlets had surprisingly made little or no mention of.

Del Burgo, who divorced Telma Ortiz by mutual consent in 2016 four years after they married and two years after they split up, claimed in the book he was carrying an engagement ring in his pocket during a meeting at Madrid’s Ritz Hotel with his ‘then-girlfriend’ Letizia in 2002 when she told him she had fallen in love with the future King of Spain.

The 53-year-old dad-of-two stirred up controversy late last year by posting an updated selfie the Spanish Queen (pictured)  took in a bathroom mirror during one of her pregnancies as ‘evidence’ of their supposed romance

On Boxing Day, Jaime shared with his 23,000 followers the ‘four stages of the relationship’ with Letizia

He alleged he became friends with Felipe after they met and was asked by Letizia to be a witness at their May 22 2004 wedding.

Jaime also made the incredible claim that the Queen asked to see him the night before the wedding at the exclusive El Latigazo restaurant in Madrid – where she asked him to ‘never leave’ her.

He said in quotes Jaime Penafiel said he had obtained via emails and phone calls with del Burgo, now married to a lawyer called Lucia Diaz Liljestrom: ‘When we met, she took hold of my hand and asked me why I had never asked her to marry me. Obviously I didn’t reply. I encouraged her as best I could. The last thing she said to me before we said goodbye to each other in that restaurant was a request: ‘Never leave me.”’

The businessman claimed their romantic relationship was forged in Venice and went back more than 20 years.

He also recalled a moment he says occurred following Princess Leonor’s birth when they were lying together in a hammock by a pool, saying in Penafiel’s book: ‘Letizia told me ‘I love you’ and I responded ‘I love you’.’

On Boxing Day, Jaime shared with his thousands of followers on X the ‘four stages of the relationship’ with Letizia in a message he is thought to have first published in early December before removing and then reposting it.

He listed them in his claim as: ‘1) Love relationship, from 2002 to 2004; 2) Friends and confidants, from 2004 to 2010; 3) Long-lasting and continuous loving relationship, 2010 and 2011; 4) As brothers-in-law, from 2012 to 2016.’

He went on to write: ‘It is the third relationship that ends abruptly after two years, a few months after Letizia’s resignation as Princess of Asturias, divorce from Felipe and establishment as a couple in New York, which was what we had planned.’

In another post he claimed that he and Letizia discussed the issue of divorce from Felipe and they sought legal advice, adding: ”We considered New York as the best option for permanent residence, the idea that we would have our child by surrogate in Los Angeles was proposed to me.’

Telma Ortiz is now with 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 her recent album The Fool & The Scorpion, Sharon wrote lyrics which included ‘the queen’s twisted sister’ – which fans speculated were inspired by her children’s new step-mother.

Neither Spain’s Royal Family nor Letizia have made any comment about the claims repeatedly and very public aired by Jaime del Burgo or Jaime Penafiel.

Referring to the scandal earlier this month, a spokesperson for the Spanish Royal Family told FEMAIL: ‘We have no comment to make about this.’

Before Christmas, Jaime cryptically insisted that ‘the truth will come out’ in a social media post.

Writing on X, he also remarked that ‘Spaniards have the right to know who represents us by inheritance or election, what is behind the spotlight, the staging and the performance’.