A journey from king Felipe and Letizia to London to attend a mass in memory of the Duke of Edinburgh to coincide with a new decision by a British court on a lawsuit against King Juan Carlos by his former lover, Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein.

The businesswoman has filed a lawsuit in London’s High Court where she accuses the king and the Spanish secret service for “harassment” and “espionage” against him in England. London’s High Court denied permission requested by the king emeritus’ defense to appeal the decision last week overturned Don Juan Carlos’ decision. immunity from prosecution in the UK. Defenders of the former king have asked British courts to reconsider his decision, but they have ordered the trial to proceed.

This way, the only possibility the king had of crippling the process was to go to Court of Appeals, something his legal defense had anticipated he intended to do. The alleged abuse was set to begin in 2012, after King Juan Carlos tried to resume his romantic relationship with her, breaking up in 2009 and then continuing for several more years as a friendship.

Larsen alleged that Spain’s National Intelligence Service, then head of Félix Sanz Roldán, or those working on his or Juan Carlos’s behalf, placed him and others in their environment “under physical supervision”.

This “includes vehicle and personal surveillance, with raids on the property where he lives, in addition to having his cellphone and computer hacked.” He also stated that he was threatened by the king emeritus, who allegedly told him that “the consequences for him “wouldn’t be good” if “he didn’t do what he wanted”.

Larsen denounced that Sanz Roldán also told him at a London meeting in 2012 that he could not “guarantee the physical safety of them or their children.” The Danish-born woman also known as Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, has publicly denounced in interviews and even during her appearance as a witness in court in Spain, that the abuse and mistreatment began when she ended her relationship with Juan Carlos.

According to the Financial Timesin the background of the case is payment of 65 million euros in 2012 by Juan Carlos entrepreneurs use the funds starting with a 100 million dollar prize received by the then king of Spain from the late King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia in 2008.

In your request, Larsen said Juan Carlos told him “he wanted to make sure he and the kids were okay, But she is worried that her family will be against whatever she left in her will after her death.”

But later, he detailed that Juan Carlos asked him to return the money “or put it at your disposal” and when he refused, he accused him of stealing funds and smearing them in front of his family and business associates, as well as King Salman and Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia.

This, he said, meant a loss of income from his job as a “strategic consultant”, for working with people with high purchasing power and with leading companies from around the world. The businesswoman also stated on another occasion that The Sultan of Oman bought him a £50m apartment in an exclusive London neighborhood Knightsbridge, for the use of the king of Spain.

According to Larsen, Juan Carlos asked him to pay a deposit for a service fee of around £200,000 at the property, but he refused. Meanwhile, Juan Carlos I’s defense, has not yet responded to the claim, although it has not yet been decided whether a British court is competent to investigate a former head of state of another nationality and who does not reside in the United Kingdom.said a British newspaper.

Whether the accusation is true or not, The key to the legal process being opened in the UK is to determine whether at the time of the crime Corinna was accused of against Don Juan Carlos, she was covered by immunity. which gave him the status of Head of State.

The king emeritus’ legal defense stated that any action resulting up to the release of Don Juan Carlos in June 2014, is covered by that immunitybecause until then he had not ceased to be Head of State, but the British court rejected this argument: “Whatever the status of the accused under Spanish law and the Spanish Constitution, he no longer has sovereign status or head of state which grants him personal immunity.”.|