Disclosure of alleged illegitimate daughter of King Emeritus causes embarrassment and speculation about clan legacy
The Bourbons don’t have a day of peace. After the Windsors of the United Kingdom, they are the most controversial European nobles.
The Spanish royal family is once again generating sensational headlines after the newspaper ‘El Confidencial’ published that the king emeritus, Juan Carlos, had a daughter out of wedlock with the queen emerita Sofia.
Fashion influencer Alejandra de Rojas, 42, is named illegitimate heir. Officially her parents are the Counts Montarco, Eduardo and Charo.
But the countess allegedly had a secret love affair with Juan Carlos over the course of a few years. Alejandra would be born from the forbidden passion. If confirmed, she would be the youngest of the king emeritus.
Wanted by reporters, she refused to answer questions. The fact that she has not denied the alleged blood relationship with the former head of the Bourbon clan generates even more suspicions.
According to “El Confidencial,” Alejandra was told who her real biological father was as a teenager. Her mother feared that she would take an interest in her half-brother, the then Crown Prince Felipe, since they circulated in the same aristocratic circle in Madrid.
He has never claimed public acknowledgment of alleged paternity or a share of the royal family’s fortune, estimated at $3 billion.
Plunged into financial scandals, Juan Carlos abdicated the throne in 2014 and became king emeritus. Felipe became the de facto king. The former monarch has two more daughters, Elena and Cristina.
There is a common trait among today’s Bourbons: marital unhappiness. Juan and Sofia have a fictitious marriage. The queen emeritus doesn’t even hide the unhappiness caused by her husband’s recurring betrayals.
Elena and Cristina had noisy separations, followed by the gossip press. They have become enemies of their ex-husbands.
King Felipe lives in conflict with the queen consort Letizia, a former TV presenter who does not get along with any of her relatives.
As the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy wrote in his novel ‘Ana Karenina’, “all happy families look alike, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”.
Source: Terra
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