Waiter who claimed he was illegitimate child of Spain’s former king drops dead at a bar
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A waiter who claimed he was one of the illegitimate children of former Spanish King Juan Carlos died at a bar last weekend.
Albert Sola collapsed on Saturday after ordering a glass of wine at the bar in the town of La Bisbal d’Emporda near the Catalan city of Girona where he lived.
The 66-year-old, who was pronounced dead at the scene around 10 p.m. Saturday night, had gone to meet a friend at a bar called Pa i Trago after finishing work.
The former king, a guest at Queen Elizabeth’s funeral last month, was called a sex addict in an explosive 2016 book that called him “The King of 5,000 lovers.”
The father of two, Mr. Sola, previously worked with Belgian housewife Ingrid Sartiau, who has spent years trying to prove that she is Juan Carlos’ daughter.
Sola used DNA tests that showed a 99 percent match with the 84-year-old, now based in Abu Dhabi after he was implicated in a series of corruption scandals, to fight for official recognition of their blood tie.
Waiter Albert Sola (left) claimed to be the illegitimate son of the former King of Spain, Juan Carlos (right)
Spain’s Supreme Court refused to allow his paternity case in 2015 after it declared the tests invalid and an appeal to the country’s Constitutional Court failed.
Adopted as a child and claiming that the former King of Spain met his birth mother during a trip to Barcelona in the 1950s from a military academy in Zaragoza, where he was studying at the time, Mr Sola said despite his defeat at court: “I’m convinced I’m Juan Carlos’s son.”
He coupled up with 56-year-old Ms. Sartiau after she contacted him over the internet.
Ms Sartiau, 56, who claimed her mother revealed details of their ‘one-night stand’ in Luxembourg in 1966 and told her, ‘That man is your father’ when his face showed up on TV, also had her paternity case thrown out by the Spanish government. High Council.
She continues to insist that Juan Carlos, who stepped down in 2014 after nearly 40 years on the throne, is her father.
A woman who witnessed Mr Sola’s sudden death told the Spanish press: “He arrived with a friend, asked for a glass of wine, grabbed it and when he made his way to the table where the friend was already he fell over. He didn’t even have time to try the wine.’
The ‘sex addict’ former King Juan Carlos of Spain arrives at Westminster Abbey on September 19 for the Queen’s funeral
Police sources have already said they believe he died of natural causes, although the results of the autopsy have not yet been made public.
Former Spanish police chief Jose Manuel Villarejo alleged in October last year, while on trial for a blackmail case, that Juan Carlos was injected with female hormones while still on the throne to control his rampant sex drive.
He also said the monarch was given testosterone blockers after his libido was categorized as a “state problem.”
In an explosive book published in 2016, Juan Carlos: The King of 5,000 Lovers, Spanish society writer Amadeo Martinez Ingles called the ex-king a sex addict and said he had hundreds of relationships, even after marrying Felipe’s mother, Queen Sofia. .
He claimed to have had 62 lovers in a six-month period alone, and in what Martinez Ingles called his “passionate period” between 1976 and 1994, he said he had slept with as many as 2,154 women.
King Juan Carlos I attends the NBA Abu Dhabi basketball game between the Milwaukee Bucks and the Atlanta Hawks in the UAE on Saturday
Spanish royal family expert Pilar Eyre has said Juan Carlos made a ‘tactile’ march towards Princess Diana in the past when she was just 25.
Diana herself denied that anything untoward had happened, but admitted that while the libidinous king was “charming,” he may have been “a little too thoughtful.”
In January 2017, it was alleged that spymasters paid a former Miss World contestant millions of pounds of taxpayer money to prevent her from wasting the beans on her alleged affair with Juan Carlos when he was still King of Spain.
Juan Carlos left Spain for Abu Dhabi more than two years ago after Swiss prosecutors opened an investigation into bank accounts he allegedly held in tax havens.
He accepted a personal invitation to attend Queen Elizabeth’s funeral with his wife Queen Sofia, sparking criticism from Spanish left-wing politicians.
His son and Felipe VI’s former journalist wife, Queen Letizia, officially attended the Sept. 19 funeral