Should we take as true from now on everything that is said about don Juan Carlos if he doesn’t bother to deny it? They say that the emeritus He has been almost “forced” by some members of his own family to come face to face with the information that attributes to him a secret daughter as a result of his alleged extramarital affairs with the Countess of Montarco. But it may be that as a communication strategy it is a mistake and it would have been better for him to remain silent as he has always done in matters of love. “Why don’t you shut up?” is the question that comes to mind, the one that the former monarch asked Venezuelan President Chávez in the time of Zapatero. Would it be more prudent if Don Juan Carlos had kept quiet?
It is extremely unusual for the King to react with a statement to these things and now there are those who wonder if everything that the previous head of state has not bothered to deny should be taken for granted. Because that gives for another book.
In an unprecedented event, King Juan Carlos released a statement this Friday in which he denies being the father of Alejandra de Rojas: “I have not had a daughter with Rosario Palacios,” says the note, in which he also rejects the affair with the Countess of Montarcoas stated in the book titled King Corp. The untold empire of Juan Carlos I, written by José María Olmo and David Fernández.
The journalists and authors of the work maintain that the emeritus has a fourth daughter named Alejandra (they do not mention the last name), the result of an alleged “extramarital relationship” with an aristocrat that they do not identify but whose coordinates, clues and descriptions lead unequivocally to the aristocrat. deceased.
From Informalia we anticipated in scoop the same day of the publication of the news that relatives of Charo Palacios and therefore of Alejandra Rojas They denied that the latter was the sister of Felipe VI. However, the same sources admitted that it was the very Countess of Montarco who boasted of her closeness to “Juanito”, as she called the Emeritus, and the aristocrat implied that her relationship with the husband of the Queen Sofia it went beyond what we can understand as a simple friendship.
the infanta Margaret, little sister of Don Juan Carlos, came to verbalize on some occasion and in front of witnesses that her friend Charo Palacios I had to be prudent with comments and insinuations, since at that time, although the whole family knew that marital fidelity was not one of the virtues of Queen Sofía’s husband, silence media and manners were kept in the face of public opinion, and the Spanish media still did not speak openly about royal lovers, as is the case now with talkative ones Corinna y Barbara Rey or the most discreet Marta Gayá, about which torrents of ink have been published without Juan Carlos I having said anything publicly.
These days, after the tsunami, the infanta Margaret, mother of Maria Zurita (close to Alejandra Rojas), has also spoken out, just like her brother: “What has been said seems horrifying to me, because it is putting everyone against everything,” he said. He added that it all seems “total nonsense” to him. Charo Palacios, who often invited the Duchess of Soria to her house in Vaciamadrid, called the King’s little sister Margot, as his loved ones do. And without a doubt, many secrets were discussed at those meals that may never come to light.
Journalist Jaime Penafiel supports the existence of these indiscretions by the mother of the alleged daughter of Don Juan Carlos: “Sometimes I asked myself: ‘Does my daughter look like the King?’, says the veteran royal chronicler who called him Charo Palacios, and quotes none other than Sabino Fernandez Campo as a source to ensure that the Emeritus does not have more children than the three that were born within his marriage. He conde de Latores It was a more than authoritative voice if we take into account that the Asturian was Secretary General of the House of His Majesty the King from 1977 to 1990, and since then chief, until January 1993.
But not only the lieutenant general always rejected that Don Juan Carlos had more children than Elena, Cristina and Felipe. Various media besides Informalia On this occasion they denied the news of this alleged paternity, and Juan Carlos himself leaked the denial but without the solemnity of a statement. Another thing is that he had no relationship with Charo Palacios, as the emeritus also maintains.
It is therefore striking that for the first time Don Juan Carlos has spoken directly, without leaks and showing his face: “I absolutely deny having had any love affair with Mrs. Rosario Palacios (RIP) and consequently having had a daughter with her.”
And everything that Don Juan Carlos has not bothered to deny up to now?
The precedent contains traces of danger because we must immediately ask ourselves about everything that the previous head of state has not bothered to publicly deny: from his other published relationships to issues related to his fortune or the true role he played in 23-F , for summarizing in only three groups matters of which versions have never been denied by Juan Carlos de Borbón himself, some of which are far removed from officialdom.
It is impossible to forget that the son of Don Juan de Borbón deceived his father, Franco, his son and obviously his wife. Only with this poker of victims of the Emeritus to question the claims of the former monarch is at least reasonable.
But it is also understandable that the grandson of Alfonso XIII wanted to be chivalrous by denying “out of respect for the truth and honor” of the people affected this information “rejecting and condemning as false everything that has been published in relation to this invented matter”.
But It is one thing for Rosario Palacios and the King to be temporary lovers and another for Alejandra Rojas to be the fourth daughter of Emeritus. Because, among other issues, if that were true and it was not denied, we would be facing much more delicate connotations than a matter of skirts, because the supposed daughter could claim her part of the inheritance, valued by some media at around 2,000 million euros. euro. Better to clear doubts.
Charo Palacios, Dowager Countess of Montarco, died at the age of 79 in El Viso, at her home on Calle Doctor Arce in Madrid, in 2016. She was the daughter of the eminent scientist, Julio Palacios, one of Don Juan Carlos’ tutors. Icon of high society since the 50s, she was the muse and model of Elio Berhanyer, one of the best designers of the second half of the 20th century. Charo, who was at the wedding of Juan Carlos and Sofía in Athens in 1962, went to Zarzuela with the dressmaker, who had the Greek queen as a client. Until Juan Carlos’s wife vetoed her entry to the palace, which reinforces the version that there was something with the countess.
Eduardo de Rojas Ordonez, fifth Count of Montarco, he became a widower in 1965. With his first wife, María Pardo-Manuel de Villena, he had five children. In 1968 the founder of the Falange married again, this time with the young and beautiful Charo Palacios, almost 30 years his junior. As a result of their marriage they had Julio and almost 12 years later Alejandra de Rojas was born. Some with the last name Rojas say that from a very young age the involuntary protagonist of this story is aware that her legal father was not her biological father. Several members of her family confirm this to us. Another thing is that the father is Don Juan Carlos.