Spain Queen Letizia's urged to explain texts to fraud accused

Spain’s El Mundo newspaper has called on Queen Letizia to explain leaked text messages that show her supporting a prominent business executive caught up in a scandal involving alleged corporate credit-card abuse.

The open letter, published in the newspaper, came a day after the digital publication, eldiario.es, reported messages in October, 2014, between Letizia and Javier Lopez Madrid, a long-time friend of King Felipe VI and former Bankia bank board member.

Letizia used an expletive to describe to Lopez Madrid the section of El Mundo that printed a story about him and the credit-card scandal, adding “we know each other, like each other, respect each other”.