It looks like 2012 will be an "annus horribilis" for the Spanish king: just as the storm caused by his ill-fated elephant hunt in Botswana subsided, Juan Carlos found himself at the center of a new scandal.
According to the Spanish press, King Juan Carlos has two illegitimate children, a son, Alberto Sol Jiménez, who was left in an orphanage in Barcelona immediately after his birth in 1956, and a daughter, Ingrid Sartio, born ten years later, who lives in Belgium today.
Ingrid's mother, Liliana, was working as a governess in France when she had an affair with the King of Spain. She revealed to her daughter who her father was only ten years ago. Albert and Ingrid met recently while searching for their ancestry and decided to do a DNA test which unequivocally showed that they are closely related, i.e. that they have one common parent.
Spanish papers say Albert intends to ask the king to take a paternity test, although he doubts the king will do so given the "delicate" media moment. Namely, it turned out that Juan Carlos did not travel to Botswana just to hunt elephants, but also to spend time with his lover of many years, the German Corinna Zu Sein-Wittgenstein.
It is not the first adventure attributed to the Spanish king, who is rumored to be a big womanizer. Juan Carlos allegedly had an affair with British Princess Diana in the mid-80s.
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