Ainhoa Armentia got married with Manuel Ruiz 20 years ago, married two decades and two children, but her husband didn’t take a week to initiate the divorce as soon as he discovered that his wife was having an extramarital relationship with none other than the husband of the Infanta Cristina.
To the pain and heartbreak of lack of love was added public ridicule, the persecution of the fenders, the television cameras, the constant scrutiny of the neighbors with their eyes. There was no choice but to rearrange the situation.
Ainhoa’s husband He did not have the illusion of a new passion with him, nor, like the other victim, the Infanta Cristina, advisers, palaces, foundations that pay 400,000 euros a year, Don Juan Carlos as an adviser and counselor. Just him and his children. But he took refuge in it, in his work, got up and has already managed to be divorced. He is free. He went to a residence and left the house to the woman who had cheated on him.
Manuel Ruiz and Ainhoa Armentia they began as quickly as they could the paperwork to end their marriage. After 19 years of marriage, the shock came in the worst way. No, it was not a private meeting in which his wife told him: ‘I have something to tell you.’ It was the cover of a magazine in which he saw the mother of her children holding hands with the son-in-law of Juan Carlos I on a beach. The explanation came later. And Ainhoa couldn’t tell him that ‘this is not what it seems’. It was what it seemed. She was madly in love with Felipe VI’s brother-in-law, a married man famous enough to change her life forever.
But it hasn’t been like that for him. At least in what Ainhoa’s husband has been able to avoid. His behavior has been exemplary. After the bombing came the tsunami that has not stopped. It is said that the marriage was not going through a good moment.
The other deceived, the Infanta Cristina, also found herself face to face with the infidelity of the father of her children. But Doña Sofía’s daughter was at least prepared, if not for heartbreak, yes to face the storm: she has been knowing what media pressure is since she was born and has the means, springs and advisers to better manage a personal earthquake of those kinds. dimensions.
Urdangarin visits Ainhoa when the children are at home
Everything has changed for Ainhoa and Manuel. Hola magazine says that they already have a divorce and that Urdangarin’s co-worker continues to work as an accounting analyst. At first it was she who went to her father’s apartment after the infidelity that paralyzed Spain was made public. Later, it was she who settled in the marital home with her two children. It was Manuel Ruiz who stopped living with her and her children and her husband looked for a house to live in. Manuel, for the sake of his two children, has shown himself to be a civilized person because for him children are his priority. For example, he assumes that Iñaki regularly visits Ainhoa also when the little ones are there.