King Juan Carlos News: Second Paternity Claim Against Former King Thrown Out by Spanish Court
On Wednesday the Supreme Court of Spain dismissed a second paternity suit brought against former King Juan Carlos.
The court accepted the ex monarch’s argument that the claim against him had no basis in fact, and the decision was backed by seven judges to three.
In January, the court agreed to consider a claim brought by a Belgian woman named Ingrid Sariau that alleged that her mother had a relationship with Juan Carlos which lasted into 1966, which was the year that she was born.
Sariau claimed that her mother Liliane Sartiau had spent time during a holiday in Costa del Sol with the soon-to-be king in December 1965.
As reported in the Guardian, Liliane Sartiau had described her holiday love as “a dashing 31-year-old, very gentle, handsome and sweet with blue eyes.”
The woman claimed that after spending three nights with the man in a luxury hotel, the concierge of the hotel informed her that the man she staying with was “Prince Juan Carlos of Spain.”
Her daughter, Ingrid Sartiau, was born in 1966.
Juan Carlos immediately made an appeal after the claim was brought forth.
Lawyers for Juan Carlos pointed out the fact that the former king does not have blue eyes and would not have been 31 years old in 1965, further arguing that the details provided of the alleged encounter were too vague as they did not reference the name of the hotel, the dance club, or the concierge.
In January, the court dismissed a similar claim made by a Spanish man named Alberto Solà Jiménez for a lack of evidence. Solà Jiménez, who was born in 1956, claimed that his biological mother had a relationship with Juan Carlos before he married Queen Sofia.
Juan Carlos married former Queen Sofia in 1962. He became king in 1975.
While king, he was immune from lawsuits.
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