Former Spain King Juan Carlos a sex addict who had 5,000 lovers in his lifetime, decorated colonel says
Spain's former king grabbed headlines last week after abruptly leaving the country where he is under investigation for alleged bribery and money laundering. The news, which sent shockwaves across Spain, was delivered by 82-year-old Juan Carlos to his son King Felipe VI on Monday.
84-year-old Amadeo Martinez Ingles, however, wasn't surprised, the New York Post reported. According to the paper, the retired republican colonel has been Carlos' nemesis for over four decades and was expelled from the military for publicly expressing his opinions about the government in 1990. More recently, Ingles was fined several thousand euros by a Spanish court for alleged “insults against the crown.” But the unfazed historian and writer has continued to rail against the monarchy, describing Spain’s Royal House of Bourbon as “a band of drunks, whores, idiots, bastards, nymphomaniacs and lazy thugs" in an op-ed last week.
Ingles has for years called out Juan Carlos's alleged corruption and asked uncomfortable questions to the crown including about the shooting death of Alfonso, his younger brother. What's more? Ingles also chronicled Carlos's various extramarital affairs in his best selling biography “Juan Carlos I: The King of the 5,000." According to the historian, the former king has had nearly 5,000 lovers in his lifetime.
“Juan Carlos I is an authentic sex addict and a sexual predator,” Ingles said, claiming his information was mostly derived from government intelligence sources. “The most beautiful stars and the most spectacular representatives of high class Spanish and foreign women passed through his bed for temporary trysts, and he also disrespected women from much more modest backgrounds.”
In fact, Juan Carlos's recent downfall stemmed from the revelation of his affair with German-born Danish businesswoman Corinna Zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, who is 26 years younger. The affair reportedly occurred after he broke his hip during a safari in Botswana in April 2012.
"The news that Spain’s king had been on a $46,000 hunting trip paid for by a Saudi royal advisor with a much younger lover and had to be flown back to Spain — on a private jet — for emergency surgery, did not sit well in a country that was about to accept a $115 billion bailout to shore up its faltering banks," according to The Post's Isabel Vincent.
Carlos's political opponents demanded his abdication while he was recuperating in a Spanish hospital. As reported by El Pais, Queen Sofia, his wife of nearly 60 years, waited three days before paying him a visit. Juan Carlos, who was lauded for steering the country to democracy in 1975 following the death of dictator Francisco Franco, abdicated in favor of his son Felipe VI in 2014 after a 39-year reign. That said, he retained the title of “king emeritus,” which means he is still immune from prosecution.
The drama surrounding the Spanish royal family intensified last week when Carlos fled to Abu Dhabi with four royal aides, saying he wanted to deflect criticism away from his son. Felipe VI has tried his best to distance himself from his father, after having renounced any inheritance from him and canceled his more than $200,000 a year palace stipend. In fact, one source told The Sunday Times of London it was he who demanded his father leave the country.
Juan Carlos was reportedly spotted at a golf resort in Portugal and a lavish estate in the Dominican Republic last week. According to Spain's daily newspaper ABC, his latest whereabouts were tracked to a $10,000-a-night presidential suite of a luxury hotel in Abu Dhabi.