Blonde and smiling, the Infanta Cristina, sister of King Philip VI of Spain, now converted into the first member of the family of the king who will sit on the dock, gave long the image of a modern princess and rebellious.
In a new chapter of a scandal that erupted in 2011 with the complaint of her husband, Iñaki Urdangarin, for alleged embezzlement, the judge decided last Thursday to bring her to trial for two alleged crimes Treasury. When questioned by the judge on February 8, the princess had opted for the “strategy of love”, claiming to have a blind faith in her husband.
Always “has lived in his world. He has felt until some untouchable “, explained after imputation Abel Hernandez, the Spanish Crown specialist writer
For a long time, the image of the family had fascinated the media. Infanta professionally active with her husband, a former Olympic medalist high handball and handsome, and their four children with an air of princes blond, on holiday in the summer palace of Marivent, in the Balearic Islands.
Cristina, 49 ” He is a person, as all members of the royal family, cordial, polite, friendly, straightforward, plain-speaking, “says Ana Romero, who was a correspondent for The World in the Royal Household. But the image was broken when the December 29, 2011, the judge charged to Urdangarin.
Over the months, suspicions became more threatening. Having escaped in the spring of 2013 to a first claim for influence peddling, Cristina Federica Victoria Antonia of the Holy Trinity de Borbón was imputed tax and laundering offense. This last position was abolished in November.
For three years, the princess and her husband disappeared from the official activities of the family. And on June 19, Cristina was largely absent in the proclamation ceremony of his brother.
“Your image has clearly deteriorated. The Spaniards put on her and her husband all the frustration felt by corruption, “noted Romero. It remains to be seen whether the abdication of his father, Juan Carlos I, on June 2, enough to ward off the shadow of the scandal of his brother Philip VI.
States before the scandal
Cristina, born on June 13, 1965 in Madrid, known as the rebellious daughter of the family, graduated in Political Science in 1989 at the Complutense University of Madrid, before continuing his studies in New York .
His humanitarian commitment leads in 1993 to work for the La Caixa Foundation in Barcelona, where he heads the department of social activities, and to be honorary president of the Spanish Commission for Unesco.
It is also a big fan of sports, especially sailing. He met Urdangarin in the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996, where he won the bronze medal with the Spanish handball team. She herself had participated in the Seoul Games in 1988, as a member of the Olympic sailing team and champion of Spain.
“It is extremely competitive and stubborn,” claimed the writer Andrew Morton in a book on women of the Spanish royal family, ensuring that Cristina was who took the initiative to woo Urdangarin.
They were married on October 4, 1997, at which King Juan Carlos awarded the title of Duchess of Palma . his daughter, now sixth in line to the throne
The couple has four children, born between 1999 and 2005: Juan Valentin, Pablo Nicolas, Miguel and Irene. In 2009, all moved to Washington, where Urdangarin was appointed director of the Spanish telecommunications giant Telefonica.
Reached there by scandal Noos, in August 2012 they returned to Barcelona. Giving image of a couple together in adversity, Iñaki and Cristina live with their children since 2013 in Geneva, where the princess works for La Caixa.
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