Post by Kukul-Kan on Jan 21, 2004 19:04:06 GMT -5
Future queen 'shown topless'
By Isambard Wilkinson in Madrid
(Filed: 20/01/2004)
Pictures of a painting showing a topless woman said to be Spain's future queen appeared on a newspaper's website yesterday.
The move by El Mundo sabotaged the royal family's wish for a scandal-free build-up to the wedding of Crown Prince Felipe to Letizia Ortiz, a divorced journalist.
The website published an article and photograph taken from a Mexican newspaper which alleged that the 31-year-old royal bride may have posed semi-naked for a Cuban-Mexican artist while she studied in Mexico in 1996. She went on to become a television presenter in Spain.
The photographs showed a mural, which once decorated a restaurant and then served as a poster for a band. A figure similar to Letizia Ortiz is shown bare-breasted and holding a paper plane.
The artist, Waldo Saavedra, said he knew Ms Ortiz and has other paintings and photographs of her. He said he had enjoyed a "professional and friendly relationship" with her.
Spanish government officials have bought a safe to keep the divorce papers of the royal bride in so that details of her failed first marriage cannot leak out.
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www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/01/20/wspain20.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/01/20/ixportal.html
By Isambard Wilkinson in Madrid
(Filed: 20/01/2004)
Pictures of a painting showing a topless woman said to be Spain's future queen appeared on a newspaper's website yesterday.
The move by El Mundo sabotaged the royal family's wish for a scandal-free build-up to the wedding of Crown Prince Felipe to Letizia Ortiz, a divorced journalist.
The website published an article and photograph taken from a Mexican newspaper which alleged that the 31-year-old royal bride may have posed semi-naked for a Cuban-Mexican artist while she studied in Mexico in 1996. She went on to become a television presenter in Spain.
The photographs showed a mural, which once decorated a restaurant and then served as a poster for a band. A figure similar to Letizia Ortiz is shown bare-breasted and holding a paper plane.
The artist, Waldo Saavedra, said he knew Ms Ortiz and has other paintings and photographs of her. He said he had enjoyed a "professional and friendly relationship" with her.
Spanish government officials have bought a safe to keep the divorce papers of the royal bride in so that details of her failed first marriage cannot leak out.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/01/20/wspain20.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/01/20/ixportal.html
