It’s one of those sentences that makes less sense the more you look at it. The King of Spain’s wife’s ex-boyfriend, who is also her ex-brother-in-law, has claimed that he wasn’t really her ex-boyfriend when we thought he was. As scandalous summaries go, this one’s notable for including its own stroke symptoms.

So it’s useful, then, that Jaime del Burgo, the ex-ex in question (we’ll get to that), has now provided a bullet-point outline of the Spanish royal brouhaha, which, in recent weeks, has enthralled the public.