Just 24 hours ago, the magazine
Lecturas
launched an exclusive that questioned the foundations of the Royal Family.
On its cover on Wednesday, January 19, Iñaki Urdangarin can be seen walking hand in hand with a woman who is not the Infanta Cristina.
The photographs were taken in a public place and, although they have surprised many, his son Pablo Urdangarin has already answered questions from Europa Press, completely normalizing the situation: “Yes, everything is fine, really.
We are all calm and we are all going to love each other the same.
Nothing else is needed."
It was his father who wanted to play down the matter this very morning.
"These things happen and we are going to manage it in the best way," he confirmed to the magazine
Hello!
this very morning
,
without going into details. “It is a difficulty that I will manage with my family, with the utmost tranquility and together, as we have always done”, he stated, following the line that Pablo already marked a day ago. "I have nothing more to say," he concluded, settling the issue as he entered the Vitoria law firm where he works. Acting as a spokesperson in this matter, his son declared again this afternoon, hours after learning the identity of the woman who accompanied the former handball player: "He said it very well," he said, referring to Iñaki's words Urdangarin. “We are all fine, in general. We are happy. It is an issue that we have to talk about and little else”, he concluded. On whether or not the Infanta Cristina was aware of the existence of this relationship, she explained: “I'm not sure about that.We will have to talk about it at some point and we will find out little by little.”
Only a few hours after the publication of the controversial images, the identity of the woman who accompanied him was confirmed: Ainhoa Armentia, a 43-year-old lawyer with two children who also went to her job today just a few minutes after the Urdangarin's entrance, ignoring questions from the press.
The images, according to the magazine, were taken on January 11 in the Basque-French town of Bidart, where the Urdangarin family spends their summers.
Ainhoa Armentia arrives at her workplace, this morning minutes after Iñaki Urdangarin. Raúl Terrel (Europa Press)
The same magazine to which the former handball player declared this morning was the one that captured the last time that the Infanta Cristina and Iñaki Urdangarin were seen together. The couple, who said "I do" 24 years ago, were photographed together on January 5, spending a few days in Baqueira Beret, in the Catalan Pyrenees and accompanied by their four children.
Exactly one year ago, in January 2021, the judge granted Urdangarin the third degree and during the course of the year he has been achieving a series of advantages thanks to his good behavior and compliance with the program for prisoners for economic crimes.
It was on March 1 when he requested the transfer to the Alava prison.
He began spending the night in his cell from Monday to Thursday to serve the rest of his sentence in an open regime, so he can now go out every day to go to work in his office and have weekends off.