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Spain: King's sister Cristina separates from husband Iñaki after an affair

2022-01-24T18:27:58.681Z


Cristina of Spain and her husband Iñaki Urdangarin have split after more than 24 years of marriage. Apparently he was having an affair with a co-worker.


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Iñaki Urdangarin (left) and Infanta Cristina (archive photo):

Photo: Europa Press Reportajes / dpa

The Spanish royal family does not come to rest: Infanta Cristina, the younger of King Felipe VI's two sisters, and the former handball world star and lawyer Iñaki Urdangarin have announced the end of their marriage after more than 24 years.

Apparently, Urdangarin was having an affair with another woman.

"By mutual consent, we have decided to end our marital relationship," says a joint communiqué by Cristina and her estranged husband, which was published by the state television channel "RTVE" and other Spanish media.

Just last Wednesday, Lecturas magazine published photos showing Urdangarin and a strange woman walking hand in hand on the beach at Bidart in the French Basque country.

It later emerged that the woman was a colleague of Cristina's estranged husband, who worked at a law firm in Vitoria-Gasteiz in the Spanish Basque Country.

Questioned by journalists on the street a few days later, Urdangarin simply said: "Things like this happen."

They wanted to discuss the "problem" at home.

Urdangarin in open prison

It's not the first scandal surrounding the soon to be divorced couple.

Urdangarin was sentenced to almost six years in prison in 2018 in the affair surrounding the alleged charitable foundation "Nóos" for embezzlement of six million euros in tax money and for forging documents, money laundering and fraud.

For the first time, a direct member of the royal family was behind bars.

The 54-year-old is now in open prison.

The scandal, which became public more than ten years ago, caused a stir and, according to observers, led to the abdication of King Juan Carlos in favor of the then Crown Prince Felipe in 2014, along with other affairs.

Cristina was accused of aiding and abetting tax fraud but was acquitted.

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Source: spiegel

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