Many “orders” and separate beds with the queen: a new book on King Juan Carlos reveals more privacy

Three months ago the Spanish royal house confirmed that King Emeritus Juan Carlos had left the kingdom to take refuge in the payments of an Arab monarch friend in Abu Dhabi, while justice investigated him for suspicious financial transactions.

The Bourbon who was head of state for almost four decades, until he abdicated in favor of his son Felipe in 2014, was absent from the Palacio de la Zarzuela for more than 100 days and yet the Spaniards have news from him almost every day: more alleged excessive transfer leaks, anecdotes, exotic trips, covered in skin and rubbing seduction with courtesans and the royal ladies.

Even a new fictional biography: Me the king, written by Pilar Eyre, journalist and writer who has covered the Spanish Royal House for decades.

“He’s not coming back to Spain,” Eyre said in one of the TV shows he’s been on to promote the most. 500 pages who wrote about the King Emeritus.

At present, three tax investigations are underway into the money movements of Juan Carlos I who, together with Queen Emerita Sofía, Felipe VI, Queen Letizia and the heir to the throne, the Princess of Asturias, has forums.

The apolocation, however, does not immunize him from serving the crimes, if he committed them, but it designates the only court that could try him: the Supreme Court.

Spain is also tired of article 56 of its Constitution, which establishes the inviolability of the king, while he reigns. Juan Carlos I de Borbón lost it on June 18, 2014 when he gave the throne to his son Felipe.

According to Eyre, the author of Me the king, Jean Charles receive “commissions” for his intermediation – one of the main current accusations on which Justice is investigating – since 1973.

“It got its first orders during the 1973 oil crisis,” Eyre said of the Saturday Deluxe program. He got his Arab brethren to send oil to Spain because there was no oil in any western country due to the Yom Kippur War and because of that he was there for many years. charge a commission. It was the beginning of the immense fortune he came to cherish. Commissions at the time were not a crime. And he got rich. “

“It’s a modus operandi that has been around for many years,” said the author of I, the king-. The year 71 was a turning point. (Juan Carlos) went to celebrations for the anniversary of the Persian Empire, in Persepolis, and there he realized how did the rich live. At that time, he only charged 70,000 pesetas, which was little money at the time. There he made contact with the Arabs who then helped him to become very rich. “

In 1971, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi celebrated 2,500 years of monarchy in present-day Iran for three days in Persepolis. Le Bourbon was among the guests.

But for the Spaniards who do not rejoice in the dialogues that the fictional biography recreates, for example, about that lunch in which Juan Carlos, still King of Spain, gathered his children to tell them that he was planning to separate of Queen Sofía – with whom, according to Eyre, I didn’t sleep romantically Since 1968, year of the birth of Felipe, the daily chronicle offers a rich menu on the adventures of the emeritus.

Like the three private trips he allegedly made to Kazakhstan before 2007, according to the online newspaper elDiario.es, or one hunting belly Along with Kazakh President Nursultán Nazarbáyev, he allegedly lobbied for Spanish companies such as Repsol and Talgo and from where he returned home with a snow leopard coat and five million dollars in black briefcases.

Another obscene figure for many Spaniards is that of the eight million euros that King Juan Carlos is said to have used private flights which he exercised between 2009 and 2018, that is to say while he was head of state and after having left the throne.

These charters, according to another online journal, The confidential, took him on a tour of North America, the Caribbean and the Middle East.

The funds would come from the Zagatka Foundation, run by a cousin of Juan Carlos, Alvaro de Orleans-Borbón.

Hormones to soothe virility

Liechtenstein-based foundation reportedly received € 6.5m in transfers without clear origin.

The epic of the daring king does not neglect the stories of the heart. Even Corinna Larsen, Bourbon’s great weakness, is opening her mouth these days when commenting on the intimacies that the embarrassment would censor. As in 2011, after an intervention, King Juan Carlos would have received, from his environment, sleeping pills and female hormones to appease his virility and weaken it.

“He always had a great sexual drive, like all Bourbons,” said Pilar Eyre. And then a great need for affection. You always have to fall in love, even a little. She is not interested in just having sex for sex. “

Madrid. Corresponding