King Juan Carlos I has denied having an affair with the overdue Diana, Princess of Wales in a surprising new memoir, set to be launched subsequent week. Spain’s former monarch, who abdicated in 2014, spoke about his courting with the British royal.
There has lengthy been hypothesis that Juan Carlos seduced the Princess on the Marivent Palace in Palma de Mallorca, the place then Prince Charles and Diana spent 3 consecutive summers with their younger sons, Princes William and Harry, between 1986 and 1988.
Within the e book titled Reconciliation: Memoirs of Juan Carlos I of Spain, which was once written via French journalist Laurence Debray, Juan Carlos describes Diana, who died in 1997, as a “chilly, taciturn, far-off lady, with the exception of when there have been paparazzi” and denies having had an affair with the Princess.
Diana’s biographer, Andrew Morton, later quoted her as calling Juan Carlos “an overly libidinous guy”. In step with his e book, Women of Spain, launched in 2013, Diana is claimed to have mentioned of the then Spanish king: “I felt uncomfortable being left by myself with him in a room, despite the fact that I will guarantee you that not anything came about.”
Juan Carlos remains to be married to his spouse of 63 years, Queen Sofia, despite the fact that they’ve been estranged for various years. The previous monarch lives in self-imposed exile within the United Arab Emirates, whilst Sofia has remained living in Spain, nonetheless sporting out charitable paintings and supporting her son, King Felipe, his spouse, Queen Letizia, and their circle of relatives.
Juan Carlos’s extramarital affairs, together with with Danish businesswoman Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn, performed an element within the decline of his popularity. Whilst he was once the world over acclaimed for guiding Spain from dictatorship to democracy within the Seventies, it was once a string of scandals that additional broken his public symbol and resulted in his abdication.
© GettyA 2012 elephant looking shuttle to Botswana sparked outcry throughout Spain’s financial disaster. Juan Carlos later moved to Abu Dhabi in 2020 after his monetary affairs had been positioned below investigation in Spain’s perfect courtroom, however no fees had been introduced in opposition to the previous king. The e book will first be printed in France subsequent week and in Spain 3 weeks later.
