She may have been the People’s Princess, but one former royal is saying it was all for show. In his new memoir, Reconciliation, former Spanish monarch Juan Carlos describes the late Diana, Princess of Wales as “cold, taciturn, distant, except in the presence of the paparazzi.”
For decades, there have been whispers that the womanizing 87-year-old — whose financial and romantic scandals forced him to abdicate the throne — had an affair with Diana while she was still wed to now-King Charles III. (The couple spent three summers at the Spanish royal family’s summer home in Palma de Mallorca in the 1980s.)
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But it wasn’t for lack of trying on Juan Carlos’ part. “I felt uncomfortable being left alone with him in a room, although I can assure you nothing happened,” Diana reportedly told friends of the royal after one such trip, referring to Juan Carlos as “a very libidinous man,” per People.
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