I’m sort of surprised by the amount of drama going down with the Spanish royal family. Almost one year ago exactly, King Juan Carlos formally abdicated, leaving his son Felipe as king. Juan Carlos abdicated under a cloud of scandal, and there were several other family members embroiled in controversy too. I should note: King Felipe and Queen Letizia don’t seem to be particularly dramatic these days. The Daily Mail is always trying to start something about Letizia looking too thin, but other than a too-severe hairstyle, Letizia looks pretty much the same as always. So in the absence of drama at the top, all of the drama is still with other royal family members. Like Felipe’s sister, Princess Cristina de Borbon. The king just “stripped” his sister of her royal title. Whoa!
Duchess drama. King Felipe VI of Spain stripped the title of “Duchess of Palma de Mallorca” from his sister, Cristina de Borbon, on Friday, June 12, as she’s currently embroiled in fraud charges. According to a statement released by the palace (via Agence France-Presse): “The official journal of the state [on Friday] will publish a royal decree by which his majesty the King will revoke the use of the title of Duchess of Palma de Mallorca by Her Royal Highness the Infanta Cristina.”
The formal title of Duchess of Palma de Mallorca was bestowed upon Princess Cristina in 1997, by her late dad, King Juan Carlos I of Spain, who abdicated the throne last year. The bold move from King Felipe comes after surmounting pressure that his sister relinquish her succession rights amidst her scandal. Princess Cristina is expected to stand trial as the first-ever royal in Spain to face prosecution since the monarchy’s restoration in the country in 1975.
She is accused of being involved in a huge tax-evasion scheme involving her husband, former Olympic handball player Inaki Urdangarin, who apparently embezzled millions of public funds through his Noos Foundation. Cristina’s lawyers, however, have remained adamant that the Princess was not involved in the scheme and was simply used by her husband.
It’s my understanding that this “title-stripping” would be the equivalent of stripping Princess Anne with the title “The Princess Royal” (which was conferred on her by the Queen many years ago) but leaving her as HRH Princess Anne. Like, Cristina is still a princess (a blood princess) but she is no longer the Duchess of Palma de Mallorca. And yes, if you’re a member of the royal family and you’re standing trial for some major criminal acts, you should probably voluntarily relinquish your place in the line of succession.
Here’s Cristina:
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Sad but he had no choice really – from what i’ve read about it the evidence against her and her husband is pretty damning. The Spanish authorities wouldn’t have charged her unless they had proof.
Also why is she still married to a man that she and her lawyers are saying used for to commit fraud?!?!
Exactly!!!! Why is she still married to him?
Does Spain have the rule that spouses can’t be compelled to testify against one another? If so, that is precisely why they are still married, I would guess.
Why is sooo important to people she is married or not to him?
Why would you care so much about it?
She was part and partner in Noos, She SIGNED legal documents — Why do you think a divorce would “clean up” this mess? Do you think a divorce wash up her alleged crimes?
She is in love with him ( teoretically), why should be divorced because you feel like?
I don’t think it’s so much about caring whether or not they’re married. It’s just she’s accusing him of lying to and using her, so why wouldn’t she divorce someone who supposedly betrayed her so deeply? If she’s trying to save her butt, a divorce would make her claims of innocence more plausible. I don’t have a horse in this race, but I hope everyone involved receives fair justice.
Well, If my husband used me in criminal activity without my knowledge, caused me to be investigated by the police and charged in the court of law and possibly get a sentence, divorce would definitely be on my mind.
“criminal activity without my knowledge”—– She SIGNED legal documents… She was socia in Noos…
Her claim is that he deceived her. Most people would react to that kind of deception by demanding a divorce. (Imagine you suddenly found out your hubby was a thief! How many couples would survive that shock/deception/embarrassment?) So it comes off as weird that she wants to stay married. Makes it seem more likely that she DID know what was going on.
Lucrezia—Her claim is that he deceived her. Most people would react to that kind of deception by demanding a divorce. (Imagine you suddenly found out your hubby was a thief! How many couples would survive that shock/deception/embarrassment
When you married someone you don´t leave the brain in the altar. You are a equal citizen
You Must be very careful when you signed or turn yourself a legal partner in any enterprise
There are plenty of married women ( famous or not famous) who use this types of arguments / sob stories in trial and you know where there are ? In jail. I´m not kidding you
Do not try this in Spain.
Why Cristina is still in trial
because She is La Infanta de España
If Spanish law recognizes the spousal privilege, they might not be compelled to testify against each other. Couples have stayed together for less.
Oh great, here comes Tropical Storm Bill. I have 1/8 tank of gas and NO Cheez-Its. Work better be cancelled today so I can numb my hunger pangs with booze.
There are legal documents testyfing her involvement… She was a sócia ( legal partner) in Noos…
Good luck Bearcatlawyer!! I hope you are not in a flood risk area. I live in Fort Worth and even here we are bracing for the rain.
Nooooo, not no Cheez-Its. 😀
On a serious note, hope the storm doesn’t cause too much damage and that you stay safe.
I found gas so now I have a full tank. The office was closed, but some clients frantically e-mailed me because they saw no reason why I should not be at my desk tending to their needs today (even though they were also off work…hmmm).
I am not technically in a flood plain, but in this case I think it is the wind and tornado risk that are the problems. Luckily I have flood insurance!
I would risk driving to the grocery now to stock up on Cheez-Its, but I am not sure what is open and worried that my fellow Houstonians have bought them up already. It would be too depressing for words to see empty shelves where Cheez-Its should be!
Aparently she’s in love. That’s her excuse for having signed a bunch of fraudulent documents. Because being in love makes you a moron, or that’s what she’s selling.
It’s true though. Love does something to the brain.
from what I understand Cristina has always been CRAZY about this guy (like she asked for the digits and the gf he had was swiftly dumped, secret dates and all that jazz) so.. there is that
People sign all sorts of documents or agree to terms without reading them properly. Just watch the brilliant South Park episode Human centiPad. “Why won’t it read?!”
hahahah That ep is one of my faves ever
Does anyone have any links? First time I’m hearing about any evidence, I thought it was only a rumor.
Felipe got all the hot in that family…Cristina is so homely.
Cristina?? Sis Have you seen Elena or Her Get ups?? Cristina is Practically Taylor Swift to Elena LOL
If she was married in the Catholic Church she may be not be ABLE to get a divorce.
Their older sister, Elena, is divorced.
Why are the UK royals so boring compared to the rest of the European royals? Sex, scandal, criminal activity, beardy gorgeous princes…….
Prince Andrew sex scandal was boring… huh?
Exactly so. The British monarchs are quick to cover up their tracks.
The Prince Andrew thing had the potential to be maybe slightly interesting but he even managed to make that look boring………
@Nonny
Yep.
Us Brits rarely get fed stuff about the other royals in the rags and mags. The internet changed that.
When we do person for person; man-to-man; with other Royal families right down to Royal Spouses other families have the Windsors beat.
The Swedish Royal Family for example make the naughties of the Kennedys look sedate.
And I don’t for one minute believe the voracious British/American press are hiding stuff to protect the British family.
There tons of stuff out there about then from historic to now, true, false and salacious but compared to to other Houses, is small fry.
because they actually want to stay royal into perpetuity.
I have always said the Windsors are more like the Waltons.
Its just that The Windsors are the most famous Royal Household in the world, so every thing with them is magnified ten fold.
But for all the ‘scandalous’ headlines, they are in actuality the most drama free of Royal Houses.
In fact take out the Diana/Fergie factor, and its time for the sedatives.
Exactly! They are so dull I’m falling asleep tying this……
Less scandal or just more resources to conceal? It’s no secret they’ve been linked to some major scandals, but there’s little pursuit from law or press. They’re just left alone with exception to minor things like the spare activities or stuff made public by another royal.
And who are the Waltons?
Ahh Florc that’s a perfect example of a false choice.
I think the most drama free of the royal houses are the Dutch, the Danish and the Belgian. Granted, I don’t now as much about the Dutch and the Belgian houses as I do about the Scandinavian ones – and among the Scandinavian royal houses, on the Danish one has avoided any major scandals since the 1920s.
The divorce between Prince Joachim and Princess Alexandra was handled with discretion, and I don’t regard the The Prince Consort’s Henrik’s occasional whining about not being king and having to defer to his eldest son as more than occasional ruffles.
There was quite a bit of scandal surrounding CP Mette-Marit’s past in Norway and in Sweden a book was recently published that painted a VERY unflattering picture of the king.
The Belgians – as in the royal family that’s implicated in the X Dossiers? I don’t think you can get much more scandalous than that.
The Belgians are not without scandal. The late queen Fabiola got in serious hot water over a tax situation, and the current king’s brother has had some difficulties recently. And there are the looming paternity lawsuits related to former king Albert.
As I said I don’t know much about the Belgians – looks like I was wrong there.
What are the X Dossiers?
The British Royals certainly haven’t been without scandal. I kind of miss the days of Queen Elizabeth’s sister, Margaret, partying her way across the globe, drinking up a storm and sleeping with all her friends’ husbands. Or hearing Charles’ voice on tape, moaning to Camilla –while married to Diana, mind you– that he was so hot for Camilla that he wished he could be her tampon. (Yep, you heard that right. SweartoGod.). Or Diana cooing sweet names to her several extra maritals when her cell phone was hacked. Or Fergie getting her toes sucked on camera. The list goes on. Jug earred (Charles), horse faced (Anne) or dumb as a box of rocks (Andrew), or inbred (all), maybe, but boring, no!
Well, I think they’re still recovering from the 90’s, for one. And Harry is many things but boring? He had his time only it didn’t hurt anyone.
All the scandals with Andrew? Not boring. They just never get followed through. They get spoken of… and the press moves on with a pro monarchy story.
I think the problem with the Andrew scandals is that they’re not gossip-y scandals but gross at best and heinous at worst. They leave a bad taste. Plus, the man himself is utterly boring so people simply forget and focus on George sticking out his tongue. Which, to be fair, is what I prefer as well.
Littlemissnaughty
To be fair stories like Andrew’s have been covered in the press and made more sensatinal with just wording. The reader gets less of a bad taste and makes for better news. As it is these stories should be covered because many like that feel entitled and above the law. They are untouchable. And the worse their actions the more likely they’ll be allowed to get away with it.
What makes this worse in the Monarchy is suppose to be the best of their people. And even more reason to not let their crimes go because the public would rather not have the image corrupted.
They have the sex, scandal and (alleged) criminality. It’s just the lack of gorgeousness that renders it all a bit boring anyway.
It might have helped her if she left her husband since she is claiming she didn’t know. It doesn’t sound like she has left him.
I did not help her! Divorce/separated or not ,she signed documents…
Sorry I mean : “It did not help her”
Somewhere Prince Charles is taking notes . When Charles becomes King, I wager that there will be some major changes
Christina has made counter claims to the Spanish papers, that it was SHE who offered to resign her title, rather then Felipe taking the initiative to do so.
Making her look self aware, and her brother opportunistic.
So much drama.
Pretty much.
Though, I remember reading several weeks ago she was refusng to give up her title while Filipe was quietly waiting for her to do so.
She made a big thing of her innocents and refusal.
Yeah, she’s a leech. She needed that title to be ripped from her clutching hands otherwise she would not have resign it by her own free will. She’s just trying to save face.
Meh, such an antiquated system to still have in place, even if the royal families have no power—these people truly are nothing special, they just come from generations of inbreeding.
Granted, there are a few awesome exceptions, but they’re a rarity.
I can’t find the information anywhere – does anyone know what that fake non-profit was supposed to do, officially? Years ago there was a scandal in my country involving former First Lady accused of embezzling money from the non-profit established to help children with cancer – public funds and private money from regular people. I think that fraud cases involving fake non-profits supposed to help people in need are the most despicable financial crimes. What kind of sociopath do you have to be to do something like that, especially if you are already rich?
Agreed!!
From what I can gather, they were into sports promotion. He wasn’t stealing from cancer-kids or anything quite that evil. They were overcharging (the government) for the costs of organising sports conferences, and pocketing the money.
As an aside – I’m wondering WTF the Spanish government was doing giving money for sports conferences when they were hit so hard by the Global Financial Crisis.
That’s Rajoy’s government for ya! 😉
Thank you. This information should be included in all articles, because there’s a fraud and there’s a fraud. He (or they) is a criminal and a thief obviously, but it’s still lower on the scale of financial crimes than many other known non-profit-related frauds.
I think one of the defrauded charities was related to disabled children.
was the Spanish Royal Family not at CP’s wedding? It seems all of Europe’s royalty was there, unless I missed them
No. They weren’t represented.
No . The Spanish Borbones did not attend the Swedish wedding (Carl and Sofia wedding)
Absolut no representation. Very very unpolite. Lets keep in mind that the swedish family attend All spanish marriages —-Elena, Cristina and Felipe, and some of them it was All swedish family attending.
They all attended Victoria’s wedding and she is the future queen. That should be enough. None of the Monaco and Luxembourg royals were there either. The King of Netherlands and King of Belgium also didn’t go.
Spain didn’t even attend Albert’s wedding, and he is head of state of Monaco and is Juan Carlos’s godson and is said to have a close relationship with the Spanish royals.
How nice would it look to attend a royal wedding that holds no significance for Spain only days after making a decision that was about the good of the crown and country? Not very nice. Strip Cristina of her title for corruption and frivolity and misuse of her status, then attend a royal wedding of the King’s 2nd child that would likely not even see the throne, spending money on new clothes, jewelry, security and transportation? LOL.
Letizia was even criticized for her new outfits during the State Visit to France, and that was a very, very important event and she had the right to dress up and spend money on her wardrobe. You think that Spanish media would welcome a non-stately Swedish wedding attendance? NO.
There is no one to represent Spain anymore. The royal family has been reduced to the Kings an their young daughters. Elena can’t attend a royal wedding because she’s not a part of the royal family.
Was there a riff? I thought that it was odd or maybe the Spanish Royal family weren’t invited
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Dori: Was there a riff? I thought that it was odd or maybe the Spanish Royal family weren’t invited
I don´t know if there´s any riff 🙂
I can´t help you in that matter.
But there is a very significant number of spanish people that did not like the lack of representation in the last swedish wedding 🙂
Elena can’t attend a royal wedding because she’s not a part .
Why Elena is not part of the royal family? What crimes or bad behaviour she comitted? Why the borbones firt-born can´t “work/ represent anymore the spanish crown?
Why reduced the ” royal” family to the bare minimun at this point? Doesn´t make sense to me
There were several royal houses who did not send reps because this was not a major event. He is not the heir to the throne, and now that there is Estelle as heir to Victoria, CP is moving into the status of “minor royal”.
Nephelim, when Felipe ascended they made a published statement that the Royal Family is now Felipe, Letizia, and the girls. Those are the only members moving forward, Elena and Cristina are out. Smart move in a country where the monarchy is losing ground rapidly.
Krishan: Unless they weren’t invited, all royal houses send a representative of equivalent rank or lower to these occasions. The level of representation depends on the rank and status of the royal getting married.
Further, the rules are that Monarchs don’t usually attend these occasions unless there is a personal relationship and or it’s a very special occasion or event or the rank of the person being celebrated warrants the monarch’s presence. Therefore as unusual as it was to see The Queen of Denmark present given her rank and status, CP is her godson.
The highest visiting rank at these occasions is usually the Queen Consort or Crown Prince. This is why the Queen consorts of Belguim, Netherlands and Norway were present, but not their hubbies. And the Crown princes of Denmark and Norway.
There was a full showing of royals from Norway and Denmark because they have close personal ties to the Swedish royals. They aren’t just cousins, they are also very close friends.
The Danish, Swedish and Norwegian royals almost always attend the big family events like weddings, christenings and funerals because they are all closely related, more closely than the other European royal houses. Fx King Harald’s mother was a Swedish princess (and his cousin), as was Queen Ingrid (QMII’s mother). So QMII is both Carl Philip’s godmother and King Gustaf’s first cousin. They are also all of them very close friends, the younger generation even more than the older generation (per QMII’s own statement in a recent interview).
Krishnan, ArtHistorian,notasugarhere , Lak
Thanks for the different points of view
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The Spanish royals rarely ever attend royal events anyway, unless it is a State event or Queen Sofia would represent. Harsh economic times in Spain mean rare attendance to other royal gatherings. Heck, even State Visits in Spain don’t get the tiara treatment anymore. It’s just very “dry” for the Spanish royals right now.
LAK: I doubt they were not invited. The Lux royals went to Madeleine’s wedding, and they had no scheduled event at the same time as Carl Philip’s wedding. Most likely they just didn’t want to go. Same for Spain: invited but couldn’t go because the wedding was not a State event (unnecessary right now with the Spain economy) and they dont have anyone else to represent them.
All things aside… King Felipe looks like Dennis Miller is that header pic. I know….I need more coffee
“The formal title of Duchess of Palma de Mallorca was bestowed upon Princess Cristina in 1997, by her late dad, King Juan Carlos I of Spain, who abdicated the throne last year.”
“Late?” Isn’t he still alive?
I noticed that too. Pretty bad writing.
I was baffled by that. I googled because I wasn’t aware that he was dead. LOL.
Yes, he’s still alive. He only abdicated, not died. 🙂
I was going to comment on that lol. I got momentarily confused there.
Me too!
I’m not really into royals so I’m out of the loop here, but… What do these people do? Do these titles gives them responsabilities? Or is thid just a huge fancy larping?
They don’t exactly hold any power, do they?
Spain like England is a constitutional monarchy. They have no power.
European monarchies are mostly P.R shows/ representatives of their countries and/or patrons of charities
The hard fact is there´s no real political power .Their influence is fading with the time
These are hollow crowns and in some cases hollow and torn crowns.
Middle eastern monarchies are different kind of animal.
Note: I do not belong to the “tribe who believes in the divine right of the kings” I´m a republican
“torn” — I mean thorn crowns
I wonder if this was done solely be Felipe, and they’re barely talking, or if this was the family sitting around together trying to figure out how to navigate this.
He’s really handsome. He actually looks like he ought to be king of something.
Felipe and Letizia distanced themselves from Inaki and Cristina years ago. Letizia was criticized in the press for it, that she was keeping the siblings apart and driving a wedge in the family. Now people are starting to realize F&L had important reasons for getting away, publicly and privately, from I&C.
Facts–Elena , Cristina and Queen Sofia are still in speaking terms ( there are plenty reports and photos in spanish sites and forums). This 3 women are real family, whatever Cristina is guilty or not.
Felipe and Letizia ……… No coments!
King J.C………. No coments!
Oh! by the way, Letizia ´s family is not exactly cristal pure and above all suspect. There are some members in trial / investigated too (economic crimes) but its a different case
How times change. That a member of RF will be stripped some title and priviledges was unthinkable a decade ago. Last one I can think of was Diana, when she was leaving the RF.
And the drama with it.
But all things aside. I find it the right decision.
Queen Letizia looks enough like King Felipe to be his sister..are they related? Princess Christina is rather frumpy in these photos.
nope, Letizia is a commoner! She even had an actual job before she met Felipe, she was a reporter. I believe their courtship caused a bit of a scandal because she’d been married and divorced before (but it was a civil marriage, so no bar against Felipe marrying her in church).
Hardly doubt. Letízia got plenty of plastic surgery in her face. That´s a well knowledge fact in Spain
There was a public announcement about the nose – deviated septum. Others are alleged imo. I always thought, if she was getting plastic surgery to look different (instead of medical condition), she would have done it before she went in front of the cameras a decade before she met Felipe.
I really do not want to discuss about this. I think it is a sterile debate. 🙂 it´s obvious there ´s some plastic surgery in her face. I don´t think plastic surgery (cosmetic or medical) is something evil,shameless or terrible per se . Why some Borbones fans/ monarchist sectors try to “minimize”/ or find a medical reason is beyond me
I think Plastic Surgery is fine. If you can ´t accept your natural appearence, use science .There ´s some risks but that´s life. It s your body
She is not the first or the last royal to have some plastic surgery.
“if she was getting plastic surgery to look different (instead of medical condition), she would have done it before she went in front of the cameras a decade before she met Felipe.”
You need Money. Those procedures are not cheap. She was a reporter and her family is middle class. When she married royalty, Leti got more public exposure and maybe more pressure to look great and more glamorous 🙂
A general rhioplasty and other plastic surgery is not beyond a middle class person’s budget. And once she was a success in that industry, she was making more than Felipe makes now.
That’s why I question when people insist she has had multiple surgeries to look a certain way, instead of the one surgery for medical reasons plus things like laser skin treatments and good skin care. She was going into a field where appearance is unfortunately a big part of the game. If she felt she needed to look differently, she would have found the money two decades ago for whatever procedures she wanted.
“she was making more than Felipe makes now”.
No.
It´s not only Felipe/ Letizia/ Casa real state´s “salary” . The Borbones are a very rich family ( Forbes magazine)
“laser skin treatments and good skin care”
I don´t know nothing about this and never mention nothing about this matter.
The only evidence is
the rinoplasty ( and it´s obvious in photographs)
But I ´ll never understand why people get so defensive about this … 🙂
Her salary was higher than that it is now. You are the one who mentioned “got plenty of plastic surgery in her face” which always makes me wonder who the people are who insist she has had multiple surgeries. The only one ever mentioned is a rhinoplasty.
Stripping her of title is unnecessary because he can not strip the blue blood that’s in her. We live in a real world. Sometimes there are family members that are out of line. That is facts of life. That’s something he has to accept. I am sure many people can understand this. In the end, she is still his dear sister. Blood is thicker than wine.
From what I’m reading, he’s stripping her (as well as her husband) of the title granted at her marriage but not the title she was born with. Given the circumstances that’s the right decision, but Christina will still be known as HRH, the Infanta (or Princess) of Spain, or however the title is rightly used.
Is Cristina the ‘simple-minded’ princess? I remember my Spanish friends explaining to me years ago that one of the princesses had some kind of, as we would say now, developmental issues. I can’t remember if it was Cristina or Elena. I remember them telling me that the best the royal family could do was to marry her off. If she is the princess they were referring to, it makes sense that she would stick by her dubious husband and get herself into trouble.
No, it was her older sister Elena.
And yes, the rumour is her marriage to Jamie Marchalier (sp) was practically a business deal.
I was always under the impression that Elena’s husband was gay. Perhaps she is, as well. I never got the impression she was simple, she is well-educated and never conducted herself that I saw in anything but a dignified way, interacting with diplomats, etc. I think the issue wasn’t simple-mindedness but homosexuality.
yes, i think Elena and Jaime de Marichalar married for reasons… and not love.
I mean this man runs through Madrid in awesome capes! It is possible that they both are gay or he is and she just didn´t fnd the right one or whatever. So she married him to silent people. I remember rumors calling her too ugly to fina a man! That´s just horrible! Maybe Jaime and Elena were both friends and wanted a family. We´re speaking about catholic Spain here. It would make sense.
The Spanish royal version of Teresa Guidice. “It was all my husband’s doing, I just signed where he told me to.”
Well, he really stripped her of her subsidiary title, as Duke of Palma de Mallorca was the title given to her husband upon their marriage, so naturally she became the Duchess. But he hasn’t actually stripped of the title she was born with, HRH a Princess of Spain. She’s still a Royal Highness. It’s quite hard to take that away if you’re born with it. In actuality he’s stripped of her husband’s title.
No, Cristina received the title and her husband was allowed to assume the title of Duke consort when they married.
From what I’ve read, Cristina’s guilt is iffy but her hubby’s isn’t — so this was more about making sure that Inaki isn’t going to prison as a Duke than it was stripping his sister of the title.
The title was given to her, not her husband.
when Elena married she was also given a ducal title. Her husband took the male form of it upon marriage but was styled Excelencia instead of HRH. When they divorced he lost his right to be addressed as such. Elena remains an Infanta and a Duchess.
IDK if these ducal titles were meant to be for life or hereditary.
I think just life.
I just realize that I apparently need to make some phone calls and get the new Hola! … she has always been after (in love with) him, so no surprise there … of both sisters, she was the pretty one that married the pretty guy… her other sister also suffered at the hands of the ex… they might be Royals, but they are not immune..
I knew this was coming, but it just sad to see the state of the Spanish crown. Long gone are the days of it being the most historical relevant dynasty in Europe. Now there’s only ashes to it, such a pity.
so true. King JC did have some relevance in the post-Franco years, but what he made of it towards the end is deeply disappointing, especially during a time when the country has already taken so many economic blows.
In unrelated news, Masako and Naruhito visited a day care in Tokyo today. They visited a museum exhibit a few weeks ago. Baby steps, but she’s out and about.
Great for Masako 🙂
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Oh yay!!! Thanks for sharing!!!
*runs off to see*
I thought that was Dennis Miller.
Good. Cristina is incredibly spoiled, smug, and arrogant. She has shown no sign of remorse for what she and her husband have done to the Spanish people. She and her husband have tarnished the crown and yet are still living it up in Geneva, vacationing in expensive locations and trying to save face by saying she was the humble one who asked for her title to be revoked. Lol.
Her husband is a vile mysogynist who sent emails with offensive, sexist content and naked pictures of women to her…and she laughed about them all!
The worst was the email about Letizia and it was perverted in nature, something like “what’s the difference between Atletico Madrid (football team in Spain and Felipe’s favourite) and Letizia? Nothing, they both get f*cked by Madrid!!!” pertaining to Atletico Madrid’s then history of rarely winning, and Madrid being the rival Real Madrid/Felipe since Madrid is Spain’s capital.
Now, if you were a decent person, would you laugh at that email, especially when it is about your family? I’d be shocked if a family member sent me a vile joke about another family member. That’s just wy too weird and disgusting. But Cristina approved because she’s cut in the same cloth as her husband.
Letizia, for years have been blamed for bad relations between her and Cristina. The media has accused her of ruining the family. hahahaa! Now all this mess has come out about Cristina, the media can no longer shield their Golden Girl. For years she was the star because she was the prettier sister with the handsome husband and pretty blond kids. Now she’s a social pariah.
The Greeks stand by her, though, esp. Marie Chantal and Pavlos. No wonder. They’re all leeches who only go by their useless titles and even refuse to take a surname even when Greece has made it clear they don’t want them anymore.
I remember her at Victoria’s wedding in Sweden, 2010. She was wearing one of the big Spanish tiaras only reserved for the Queen. Her mother, then the actual Queen, was wearing a smaller tiara as was Letizia, the actual future Queen. Cristina just behaved at that event like she was hot sh*t, waving and lapping up the attention as if she was the Queen of Spain. There were talks she forced her mother, who can’t say no to her, to let her use the big tiara, just as there were talks that her “camp” was the one releasing malicious info about Letizia to the media to make Cristina look better. Ha! Karma. Now Cristina has nothing to defend herself with.
Then in 2011, her husband was indicted with corruption and embezzlement, and she ran away to Geneva so she can’t be reached by the Spanish media and can’t be questioned.
Her husband was a handball player whose jobs post-career were gained only through Juan Carlos’s connections. He had no particular skill set to get his own job that could maintain Cristina’s lifestyle.
They are both used to living the high life and answering to nobody/nothing. Now it’s caught up with them and they’re denying everything. She is dependent upon her royal title and even now uses it to spin the PR her way.
There is no way she did not know of her husband’s crimes. If anything, she probably masterminded some of the schemes to steal money!
Well alrighty then, King Felipe.