The eight years of sentimental relationship between the two, in which the businesswoman came to live with Zarzuela, have ended up in court
Her complicated full name, Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, began to be heard in gossip houses near Zarzuela for the first time in 2010. Two years later, when it became known that she was the one accompanying Juan Carlos I on the elephant hunting trip to Botswana in which the then head of state broke his hip, the Spanish ended up learning to pronounce their aristocratic German surnames. Surnames that, in reality, are not yours. And it is that Corinna, despite having divorced in 2005 from her second husband, the German aristocrat Casimir zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, continued for years to use her resounding surnames to open up, which earned her more than one argument with the family of her ex.
Corinna was officially a “serene princess” when she met Juan Carlos I in February 2004, still married to the Teutonic nobleman, in a hunt at La Garganta estate, in Ciudad Real, owned by the VII Duke of Westminster. They say that the emeritus, who was 66 years old at the time, fell captivated from the first moment by the charms of Corinna, who then, at 39 years old, had not yet gone through the operating room so many times.
They immediately became lovers and Corinna, who until then had worked as a manager at Boss and Company, a company dedicated to setting up hunts for the most powerful on the planet, became Don Juan Carlos’s assiduous companion overnight, even on official trips.
The businesswoman, converted according to herself into a sort of “representative” of the still King, even moved to La Angorrilla, a house in El Pardo near Zarzuela, where she lived for long periods together with Alexander Kyril, her only son, the fruit of his relationship with the German nobleman. From those happy days in which the head of state had, in practice, a second family, is the famous and carefree photo in which the King, in a bathing suit and with a backwards cap, watches over a barbecue in the company of Alexander, who came to call “Dad” to the Monarch.
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In her role as lover-secretary during those years of idyll, the former princess was in charge of organizing, for example, the honeymoon of the then princes of Asturias; she was at the foot of Doña Sofía’s husband’s bed when in 2010 she was operated on for a nodule in her lung; she made private trips to Europe and Africa… and even Corinna she became part of the official entourage of Juan Carlos I when she was received in 2006 with honors at the Stuttgart airport, walking behind the Monarch.
In that 2006, she combined her role as ‘second lady’ in the shadows with that of an international businesswoman, accompanying Juan Carlos to Saudi Arabia in full negotiations for the famous AVE contract to Mecca. In 2009, according to Corinna herself, the King got to know the father of her lover and ask for her hand to marry her.
But everything went wrong that 2012 and not only because of the hunting scandal in Africa. That year, in the summary of the ‘Nóos case’, his name also appeared linked to the alleged arrangements by Don Juan Carlos to find Iñaki Urdangarin a luxury position in a well-known sports foundation. About to be called to testify in the Palma courts, the CNI, according to the ex-princess’s version, appeared on the scene to guarantee the silence of the already “close ex-friend” based, always according to Corinna, on threats. Some coercion, which is the origin of the lawsuit that is aired in the British courts, for which the woman blames her ex-lover, who would have sent the then head of the Spanish secret services, Félix Sanz Roldán, so that he would not talk about the shady business of the Emeritus. Some irregularities that the Spanish Prosecutor’s Office considers proven but that it has decided in recent weeks not to prosecute, considering that they have either prescribed or were committed when the King was immune due to his status as head of state, before his abdication in June 2014.
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