Clear horizon. King Juan Carlos has emerged immune from the latest judicial battle in which he has been immersed since his ex-lover Corinna Larsen filed, in the British courts, a lawsuit for harassment that, this Friday, after almost three years of previews, has been dismissed by Judge Rowena Collins Rice. The judge has accepted the arguments of the emeritus' lawyers who, throughout the process, have defended that the British courts are not competent to judge the case. The King's father cannot be tried for the facts attributed to him as the judge also considers that the plaintiff cannot prove the alleged harassment or that it took place on British territory.
In her ruling, Judge Collins states: "My main conclusion is that the High Court of England and Wales lacks jurisdiction to hear this claim. This is because it has not been brought against the defendant in his country of domicile, as "It is her default right; and the plaintiff has not convinced me that she has a strong, defensible case that her claim falls within an exception to that default rule." The judge also concludes that "if she had had the capacity to judge this case, she would have dismissed it for several reasons", among them, "the inconsistency" of her arguments and the numerous version changes.
Corinna Larsen requested a claim for damages of 126 million pounds (about 146 million euros). The lawsuit includes alleged episodes, described as harassment by the plaintiff, that took place, according to Larsen, in different countries (mainly the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Brazil and Monaco) between 2012 and 2020, although the alleged events that occurred before June 18, 2014 - the date of the abdication of Juan Carlos I - were already left out of the lawsuit when the Court of Appeals, agreeing with King Juan Carlos' lawyers, recognized their immunity.
The judge has communicated the court's decision - which is appealable - by email to the parties, as well as to the National Archives, according to the list provided by the British Justice information service.
Corinna Larsen, who had an emotional relationship with King Juan Carlos between 2004 and 2012, filed a lawsuit for harassment in the British courts, where she resides, in December 2020. In her letter, her lawyers recounted alleged episodes. of harassment that would have come from King Juan Carlos. Over the course of twenty pages, he described a series of episodes of harassment, implicating the former director of the National Intelligence Center, General Félix Sanz Roldán, and various agents of his service who would have took place mainly in Monaco and London.
With the lawsuit, according to sources close to King Juan Carlos, Corinna Larsen intended to reach a prior extrajudicial agreement to ensure ownership of the 100 million dollars (about 65 million euros when the calculation was made) that King Juan Carlos had given her. transferred and that, later, after the couple broke up following the accident in Botswana, he had claimed him. Larsen's intention was to use the lawsuit as pressure, although at no time did either King Juan Carlos or his lawyers negotiate based on that strategy.
According to some sources, there is a possibility that after the death of King Juan Carlos, his heirs (mainly his daughters, Elena and Cristina, since the King announced his resignation from a possible inheritance) could claim those 65 million from Corinna, considering that his father could not freely dispose of that money, nor donate it to other people.
Once it was proven that her strategy, described as "pure blackmail" by people close to King Juan Carlos, had no effect, Corina redoubled, with a smear campaign through statements in documentaries broadcast on internet platforms, her attempts to obtain , by means of a sentence, a sufficient amount of money to compensate for the possible loss of the 65 million. It was a few months ago when she quantified her compensation requests at 125 million pounds sterling (145 million euros), claims that have been definitively ruled out after the court ruling.
As usually happens, for both the plaintiff and the defendant (who has hired three prestigious London law firms), the judicial process, which began almost three years ago, has meant paying millions in fees to the lawyers and more for Corinna who, In addition, he hired the services of a public relations team that during this period has been bombarding with threats of new lawsuits, anyone who published information unfavorable to Corinna Larsen, whom they insisted on continuing to call "Princess Zu Sayn-Wittgenstein." , the surname she adopted from her second husband Casimir zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, whom she divorced in 2002. After hearing the sentence, Corinna Larsen has expressed disappointment in the judge's ruling, while King Juan Carlos, who for some months now confided to his intimates, his impression that the lawsuit would not go ahead, has received with relief the resolution that puts an end to what he has always described as a smear campaign and a clear intention of revenge on the part of who he was, for some years , his romantic partner.
