“The goal is to hurt the Emeritus”

After years of knowing that there were compromising images of King Juan Carlos and Bárbara Rey in an affectionate attitude, this Wednesday we saw some of these photographs on the terrace of the vedette’s house in Boadilla del Monte, which have seen the light in the Dutch magazine ‘Privé’. It has been Ángel Cristo Jr. who has sold the snapshots to the publication, assuring that it was he who took them on the orders of his mother in 1994, when he was 13 years old. His mother denies that he took them (he was 13 years old), affirms that they were taken by a very close person, now deceased, and announces legal measures against her son and against the magazine.

“With these photos, King Juan Carlos was blackmailed by one of his many lovers, the television star Bárbara Rey. She used her son to take the secret photographs. It made her a lot of money and out of revenge towards his mother and to refute her words, Ángel has told this shocking story,” the Dutch publication headlines, causing a real media tsunami in our country.

Outraged, Barbara has spoken to various journalists and media outlets and has made it clear that she is going to take legal action against her son, assuring that he was not the one who took the photographs and accusing him of having stolen them. “I feel bad, I have been feeling bad for a long time and now it is worse. This is non-stop, it is too strong. And “publishing this, as he has done, makes it clear what this boy is like. I never thought he could go to such an exaggerated extreme” she has confessed to Beatriz Cortazar, confirming that she has put the matter in the hands of her lawyers and that she could be considering criminal proceedings against Angel, which would entail asking for a prison sentence for her own son.

Meanwhile, the Royal Family has not commented on the images of the Emeritus with the vedette, nor does it intend to do so, since they consider that this is a matter outside the institution’s control and they have nothing to comment on the matter.

But the entourage of Don Juan Carlos, who is currently in Sanxenxo to compete in the regattas that will be held in the Galician town this weekend, has reacted. The Emeritus is “very surprised” that these photographs have been published. His friends are “scandalized” because they consider it to be something “illegal” since they were taken in a private place, and they believe that it is being “a witch hunt” against the father of Felipe VI.

Hurting the Emeritus

Those close to her believe that these images have not come to light just now by chance, and they are convinced that the “ultimate objective is not the war between Bárbara and her son, but Don Juan Carlos”, who was in a “moment of tranquility” and his weekend and the joy he could have had have been ruined.

The Emeritus’s first reaction is that he is not too worried. He has many open fronts and they say that he is not surprised. He is very informed about what is happening in Spain and knows about Bárbara and her son, and is prepared for more material to come out. However, experts consulted believe it is unlikely that the former monarch is not in favour of the judicial route, although he has legal advisers who will study what is happening.