Now I feel like such a fool.

I thought she had broken down and stopped to help. So you can imagine the shock when I saw her sitting astride her ex in the passenger seat.

She is 42 and I’m 45. We have a 12-year-old son together and she has a daughter, 16, from her first marriage, who lives with her father.  

My wife has always had an amicable relationship with her ex, who is 47. 

When her daughter stopped visiting as often as usual, I assumed it was because she wanted to spend time with her friends, rather than her mother and half-brother.

A few weeks ago, my wife said she was going to see her daughter, to lend her a suitcase for her summer holiday.

That same night, I had to go round to my mother’s, because she thought she had a gas leak. After the engineer had sorted it, I headed home. On the way, I passed my wife’s car.

It was only after I’d parked up and walked over to the window that I noticed they were kissing – and worse!

My wife screamed when she saw me. I jumped back in my car and drove away, feeling sick about what I’d witnessed. 

Twenty minutes later, my wife came in.She’d been crying. 

She told me she hadn’t meant it to happen – it was one of those things. 

I asked her how long she’d been seeing her ex and she said, “Three months.”

Their daughter clearly knew and had stopped visiting us, hoping her mum and dad would get back together.

My son heard us arguing. He has said he hates his mum for splitting the family up. 

He’s not talking to her at the moment. It’s all a mess.

If she’s still seeing her ex, then it’s time for an ultimatum. 

She can’t sever all ties with him because of your stepdaughter, but she must decide who she wants to be with.

Sadly, one child will be hurt either way.

If you both want to save your marriage, you may need outside help. 

Suggest couples counselling. Tavistock Relationships provides quality counselling at a reasonable cost (tavistockrelationships.org, tel: 020 7380 1975).  They also offer an online therapy Service. 

My support pack, Worried About Your Parents, will help your son.

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Ms Butina said on social media platform X (formerly Twitter) that she has asked Russia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs if the party complied with Russia’s prohibition of LGBTQ+ “propaganda”, or violated the order outlining “traditional Russian spiritual and moral values”.

Yekaterina Mizulina, the head of pressure group Free Internet League, called for a boycott of the attendees.

“Such hangouts are a shot in the foot of the entire policy pursued by the state. The partygoers live in a different world than the rest of the country,” she wrote on Telegram, as per Moscow Times.

“These people should be boycotted at the state level,” she further said.

The police raided the nightclub on the second day of the party, after which guests were seen “way more dressed”, the outlet further said.

Ms Ivleeva, meanwhile, mocked the criticism, saying on Telegram that same people “like to look at beautiful, slender western models” but raise eyebrows when something like this happens inside Russia. Russian outlets claimed men were kissing on the dance floor and nude images were projected.

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Ortiz’s former husband Jaime Del Burgo, 53, currently based in the UK, recently contributed to a tell-all book about the 51-year-old Spanish royal, in which he makes the far-fetched claim that he and Letizia were still romantically involved after her 2004 wedding to Felipe. 

The entrepreneur – who claims he was dating Letizia when she first met the heir to the Spanish throne – also shared a selfie the Queen took in a mirror during one of her pregnancies as ‘evidence’ of their relationship on X, formerly known as Twitter, last night. A spokesperson for the Spanish royals told FEMAIL: ‘We have no comment to make about this.’  

It isn’t the first time the spotlight has shone on the complicated love lives of the Spanish monarchy – with the course of true love running anything but smoothly for many of the family members. 

Former Spanish king, Juan Carlos I, now 85, has been dogged for decades by rumours of countless infidelities during his marriage to Queen Sofia. 

Two of the marriages of Juan Carlos and Sofia’s three children – Felipe and his sisters Elena, 59, and Cristina, 58, – have ended in divorce; Cristina’s falling apart last year following her husband Inaki Urdangarin’s 2018 jail term for financial crimes. 

The sensational claims by Jaime Del Burgo, the ex husband of Queen Letizia’s sister Telma, have seen him allege that he was ‘dating’ Letizia before he married Telma.

This week he’s claimed that the Spanish Queen eventually ended their relationship – abruptly – by calling him and saying: ‘We can’t continue seeing each other’ in August 2011, seven years after she wed the Spanish monarch.  In 2012, Del Borgo got engaged to Letizia’s younger sister Telma.  

Telma, who already had her daughter Amanda from her relationship with ex-partner Enrique Martin Llop, accepted the proposal after just two months of dating.

At this time, Jaime claims he was still close to Letizia and Felipe. Author Jaime Peñafiel wrote in his new book Letizia & I: ‘When [Jaime del Burgo] is going to marry Telma, it is Felipe who advises him on the marriage agreements and, over the years, they have maintained a great friendship.’ 

In 2012, Del Borgo and Telma relocated to New York to start their married life – but Telma returned to Barcelona the same year before announcing their permanent separation in 2014. 

This week, Telma’s ex Jaime Del Burgo shared an undated selfie the Queen, 51, took in a bathroom mirror during one of her pregnancies as ‘evidence’ of their relationship on X, formerly known as Twitter.

 In the selfie, the royal can be seen wearing a black pashmina – which Jaime claims belonged to him – and he also typed out a message, supposedly sent to him by the  Spanish Queen. 

It read: ‘Love. I wear your pashmina. It’s like feeling you by my side. It takes care of me.

‘It protects me. I count the hours until we see each other again. Love you. Get out of here. Yours,’ 

After sharing the image, other X users questioned the validity of Jaime’s claims – given there is no evidence that Letizia sent him the photo or accompanying message. The businessman has since deleted his X account.

A spokesperson for the Spanish Royal Family told FEMAIL: ‘We have no comment to make about this.’ 

Telma’s partner is now Irish lawyer Gavin Bonnar and the couple welcomed their first child together in October 2021, when Telma was aged 47. Gavin shares two children with his first wife musician Sharon Corr. 

In her recent album The Fool & The Scorpion, Sharon wrote lyrics including ‘the queen’s twisted sister’ – which fans speculated were inspired by her children’s new step-mother. 

Telma and her family prefer to stay out of the limelight – but it’s thought she still has a close relationship with her sister, with the mother-of-two invited to several special family occasions, including the Princess of Asturias Awards in 2019.

At the lavish event, she watched her niece Princess Leonor, 18, who is heir to the Spanish throne, give a speech. 

This summer, when in Madrid to attend a talk on renewable energy starring Amal Clooney, she told the media her nieces were ‘the best’.

Letizia married high school teacher Alonso Guerrero Perez, nine years her senior, in 1998 following a ten-year romance  – with the pair meeting when the future Spanish queen was just 16.

The couple tied the knot in a civil ceremony in the town of Almendralejo, Badajoz, but divorced the following year after just one year of marriage.

Letizia met husband-to-be Felipe in 2002, while she was working for popular TV channel 24 Horas, with the couple announcing their engagement just a year later.

Letizia’s status as a divorcee, as well as her former relationship with the high school teacher, caused controversy in Spain ahead of the royal wedding, suddenly thrusting Alonso into the spotlight. 

However, her previous marriage came back to haunt her when her ex-husband published a novel that seemed to be inspired by his controversial romance with the Spanish royal.

Guerrero Perez, from Alcalá de Henares, Spain, wrote a fictional book called El Amor De Penny Robinson, or The Love of Penny Robinson.

The novel tells the story of a man – who has the same name as the author – suddenly thrust into the spotlight due to his ex-wife becoming queen.

In the book, the main character even describes how he took a nude snap of his first love, Laura, a character believed to be based on Letizia.

The protagonist falls in love with two women – Laura and Nené – who are both thought to be based on Letizia.

The book then tells the story of how the second woman, named Nené, becomes Queen – leading to the protagonist becoming a ‘media character’. 

The older sister of King Felipe VI, Infanta Cristina of Spain, now 58, found herself at the heart of one of the Spanish monarchies biggest scandals – after her husband, now ex, was jailed for financial crimes. 

Businessman and retired handball player Iñaki Urdangarin, 54, was sentenced to five years in prison in 2018 for embezzlement and money laundering in excess of £4.5 million through his non-profit organisation, the Noos Institute.

Urdangarin married Infanta Cristina in 1997 and the couple share four children together, all in their late teens or early twenties: Juan, Pablo, Miguel and Irene.

The couple shared a joint statement in January 2022 to Spain’s State News Agency saying they were to separate. 

The end of their relationship came after he was pictured holding hands with another woman, allegedly an unnamed co-worker at the Imaz & Asociados law firm, in a photo published by the Spanish magazine Lecturas. 

In a bid to distance themselves from these corruption claims, the Spanish royal family removed the section dedicated to Iñaki Urdangarin on their website. 

Infanta Cristina was also investigated for corruption, but was acquitted of any charges. However, her brother King Felipe VI stripped her of her title of Duchess of Palma in 2015.

Now living in exile in the United Arab Emirates, largely estranged from his wife and family, Juan Carlos I, 85, has been perhaps the Spanish royals biggest purveyor of scandal in recent decades.

Although now best known for his misdeeds, he was once one of the most glamorous men on the world stage. Juan Carlos, who has three children – two daughters and a son – with wife Queen Sofia enjoyed a close relationship with Queen Elizabeth and the British royal family; a friendship with King Charles continues. 

A onetime hero to Spaniards thanks to his rejection of the legacy of dictator Francisco Franco and the ushering in of a new democratic, liberal era after decades of authoritarianism, his people eventually grew tired of the rumours about his less than salubrious behaviour. 

Juan Carlos’ adulterous bedding of hundreds of women – with some claiming he has slept with 2,000 women – and accusations of financial impropriety are likely to be his lasting legacy. 

The Spanish public finally turned on their king in 2012 when he took an elephant-shooting trip with his former lover, the aristocrat Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn. 

Amid increasingly poor health, abdication and self-imposed exile came two years later, with the king letting his son, Felipe IV, take over. 

While the 2007 separation of Princess Elena, the eldest daughter of Spain’s King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia, was low-key in comparison to that of her younger sister, it still put the royal family back in the headlines. 

Elena, now 59, and her husband Jaime de Marichalar, who married in Seville Cathedral in 1995, separated after 12 years of marriage. 

The Spanish princess announced that she was leaving her husband and taking her two children with her. Elena’s eldest child Felipe Juan Froilan, now 25, was the first grandchild for Juan Carlos and Sofia. The couple also had a daughter Victoria Federica, now 23.

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Milei’s rise does not mean that Argentine society has turned ultra-right from one day to the next or that they embrace the fundamentalist ideals of a new libertarian fascism of the market. One which puts economic freedom above democracy and civilizing minimums of the Western world, typical of political liberalism.

The problem is that Milei’s discourse is seen as a way out, by using anti-caste and anti-elite rhetoric, which takes advantage of citizen discontent, a product of the economic crisis and state corruption. He proposes an idea of idiot capitalism, which completely leaves out of discussion and criticism the role of an economic caste, which is the one that has ultimately benefited the most from the current capitalist crisis.

With this, of course, it is not about exonerating the Argentine political class and particularly what is known as Kirchnerism from responsibility for a historic anti-Peronist vote and a very bad candidate such as Sergio Massa. However, the installation of Milei’s antisocial and state-phobic discourse should not be allowed to take hole, as it is totally unsustainable in any democracy.

Hence, Milei’s libertarian fascist discourse dwarfs what has been proposed by figures like Bolsonaro and Trump. He proposes a crude economic focus incapable of seeing basic power relations and thus proposing an almost religious morality with respect to the business sector, by sacralizing it at all times. It’s as if we should be constantly thanking them for the benefits they would give us.

Consequently, Milei explicitly states that businessmen are social benefactors, for the mere fact of providing goods and services as for giving us jobs. Exactly what has given them the same concentration of wealth, labor exploitation and socio-environmental disasters that their actions often generate. To him, the corrupt are always the politicians, while the businessmen are pure and righteous beings.

For this reason, the deep admiration that Milei feels for characters such as Axel Kaiser, Jose Antonio Kast and the so-called Chilean economic miracle, imposed during the Pinochet dictatorship and deepened with the return of democracy. A policy that privatized practically everything and indebted families to extreme levels to be able to pay for such basic things as education, health, housing and to survive during retirement, given the miserable pensions provided by the private AFP system.

But that does not matter to Milei, nor does it matter that in Chile the richest 1% concentrate 49.6% of the wealth, far surpassing countries like Russia, the United States, Brazil and Argentina, and that certain Chilean economic groups, given their power, have financed the political class for decades and have also colluded in the prices of food and medicines in a criminal manner.

Milei sees nothing wrong that such a concentration of economic groups in Chile such as Luksic, Matte and Angellini appropriate the country’s natural wealth, destroy ecosystems with impunity and consume massive amounts of water, since these mining, forestry and agro-export mega-companies provide employment.

On the contrary, Milei’s brand of capitalism reaches such an extent that, apart from admiring a socially and environmentally unsustainable Chilean model, he proposes a retro-utopia, which yearns for the return of Argentina’s supposedly glorious past of 100 years ago. Back then, Argentina was a country with the highest GDP, but without industry, with almost no labor rights and totally dependent on selling raw materials to the international market.

That said, Milei disguises herself as an outsider, an anti-system rebel, while taking advantage of the inflationary crisis in Argentina and the impoverishment of the people.  However, he is only proposing an unviable country, through extreme measures that go from eliminating several ministries, eliminating the Council of Scientific and Technological research, the Central Bank, cuts in Education and drastically reducing taxes. Within his economic fundamentalism, taxes are robbery and a criminal act of the State.

In short, if Javier Milei becomes president of Argentina, which is posible, we will see what he is capable of doing, considering the few deputies and senators that his La Libertad Avanza party will obtain. In order to govern he will be obliged to give in politically, having to leave his libertarian purity aside and see himself as one of the caste that he himself criticizes.

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Milei, who rode a wave of voter anger with the political mainstream, won by a wider-than-expected margin. He landed some 56% of the vote versus just over 44% for his rival, Peronist Economy Minister Sergio Massa, who conceded.

“The model of decadence has come to an end, there’s no going back,” Milei said in a defiant speech after the result, while also acknowledging the challenges that face him.

“We have monumental problems ahead: inflation, lack of work, and poverty,” he said. “The situation is critical and there is no place for tepid half-measures.”

In downtown Buenos Aires hundreds of Milei supporters honked horns and chanted his popular refrain against the political elite – “out with all of them” – as rock music played from speakers. Some people set off fireworks as excitement spread.

“We came to celebrate this historic triumph,” said Efrain Viveros, a 21-year-old student from the province of Salta. “I’m honestly ecstatic. Milei represents change, for the better. With Massa we’d have had no future, our future has returned.”

Milei is pledging economic shock therapy. His plans include shutting the central bank, ditching the peso, and slashing spending, potentially painful reforms that resonated with voters angry at the economic malaise.

“Milei is the new thing, he’s a bit of an unknown and it is a little scary, but it’s time to turn over a new page,” said 31-year-old restaurant worker Cristian as he voted on Sunday.

Milei’s challenges are enormous. He will have to deal with the empty coffers of the government and central bank, a creaking $44 billion debt program with the International Monetary Fund, inflation nearing 150% and a dizzying array of capital controls.

Some Argentines had characterized the vote as a choice of the “lesser evil”: fear of Milei’s painful economic medicine versus anger at Massa and his Peronist party for an economic crisis that has left Argentina deeply in debt and unable to tap global credit markets.

Milei has been particularly popular among the young, who have grown up seeing their country lurch from one crisis to another.

“Perhaps not everything Milei says I agree with or can identify with but he is our future,” said Irene Sosa, a 20-year-old student celebrating outside his election bunker. “Milei represents a future for young people like me, Massa was everything that is wrong with our country.”

Milei’s win shakes up Argentina’s political landscape and economic roadmap, and could impact trade in grains, lithium and hydrocarbons. Milei has criticized China and Brazil, saying he won’t deal with “communists,” and favors stronger U.S. ties.

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The US diplomat has been facing a chorus of Arab calls to support an immediate ceasefire. Foreign ministers from Qatar, Saudi, Egypt, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates met Blinken in Amman on Saturday and also urged him to persuade Israel to agree to a ceasefire. Blinken also visited Iraq on Sunday and held talks with the prime minister, Mohammed al-Sudani.

The latest manoeuvres come amid continued concerns for civilians inside Gaza, as the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said they had divided the besieged coastal strip into two and the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported “unprecedented bombardment” by Israel.

Jordan’s military air-dropped urgent medical aid to a Jordanian field hospital in Gaza early on Monday, according to a social post from Jordan’s king and reports in state media. “This is our duty to aid our brothers and sisters injured in the war on Gaza. We will always be there for our Palestinian brethren,” King Abdullah said.

Antony Blinken meets with the Turkish foreign minister, Hakan Fidan, on Monday 6 November. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/AP

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