GUADALAJARA, MEXICO.- The time in the future queen of Spain, Letizia Ortiz, spent in Mexico, where she studied and worked for the “Siglo 21” daily published in Guadalajara, occidental Mexico, is beginning to be revealed, dispelling the mystery of a stay during which she cohabited with the town Bohemians.  

A painter’s muse, a newspaper reporter that interviews the leader of Maná, one of the most successful Mexican groups at national and international level, and young student enjoying the city´s Bohemian atmosphere, are the features of the story being woven around the woman who next May will marry Prince Felipe, heir to the Spanish crown.

The young woman who will be queen of Spain one day, has become an item of scandal after it was found out that a nude bearing her face had been exhibited in a coffee house in Guadalajara, Mexico. The author of the painting, Waldo Saavedra, a Cuban painter living in Guadalajara, denies that Letizia had posed in the nude. He admits to knowing the future queen, that he has photos of her face, but when asked if she had posed for him in the nude, he denies it: “No, she did not pose.”

Saavedra, who also paints covers for disks and magazines, has stated that Letizia has never seen the painting where she appears naked, which at present is in the home of Javier Sánchez, a member of the group Maná. However, he does admit he fell in love with her, although he confesses, “I never told her.”

Since the face and loveliness of the future queen also served to inspire the cover of “Liquid Dreams,” a 1997 Maná CD which was dubbed as “historical” by the members of the band, there was also talk about a romance with Fher, the charismatic vocalist and leader of the group. Fher admits that he met her during an interview he gave her and that was featured in “Siglo 21” magazine. He also recounted that later on Letizia attended a concert in Guadalajara and came by to their dressing room to “say hi”, where they chatted and drank tequila.

Nevertheless, Fher, who also said that Letizia had been the first reporter who at an interview asked them about Mexican politics, gastronomy, and culture in general, reason why he “recalls her as lovely, charming and smart,” made it clear that he had not known until now that Letizia was on the cover of “Liquid Dreams.”

“Today I find out that art on one of our historical CDs, Liquid Dreams,“ is partly inspired by her, and I am happy about that,” he stated.