New details on the romantic relationship between King Emeritus Juan Carlos I and Bárbara Rey. After the intimate images published by the Dutch press which show the head of state at the time and his former lover kissing and in an affectionate attitude, ‘OKDIARIO’ published a series of audios in between.
In the voice notes, the two protagonists address various current topics of the moment and affectionately use the “my life”, “darling” or “my love”. Some names that come up several times during the conversation published by ‘OKDIARIO’: “Please, my life!” “But what’s wrong with my life?” “Everyone, my love, everyone.” “I’m laughing, darling, I’m laughing at Alfonso Armada.”
Here are excerpts from the conversation where the affectionate nicknames between the Emeritus King and Bárbara Rey are heard:
Barbara Rey: Oh yes! There’s also this Aznar… I thought I saw him… But, what’s the problem with my life?
Bárbara Rey: Well, my God, what an exaggeration, isn’t it? But, come on, I don’t think things will go that far… Please, my life!, I said… It’s obvious that they have a lot to hide and that they will have to get there…
Bárbara Rey: Everyone, my love, everyone.
Juan Carlos I: The things of Sabino and the word of honor, I laugh, I laugh, darling, I laugh of Alfonso Armada.
Juan Carlos I, on Luis Roldán: “It is better that they do not find him”
Although “love” and “my life” aren’t the only really striking things in these voice notes. Barbara Rey and Juan Carlos I They also spoke in 1994 about Luis Roldánformer director general of the Civil Guard, while his whereabouts were unknown after fleeing Spain while accused of corruption cases linked to the government of Felipe González.
In the said extract published by ‘OKDIARIO’the King Emeritus said: “I hope they find him”, to which Bárbara Rey replied “do you believe?” Immediately afterwards, Juan Carlos I expressed the following: “Even if between you and me, the Civil Guard says it is better not to find him. Better to find him dead“.
Juan Carlos and Bárbara Rey spoke about Sabino Fernández
Juan Carlos I also angered the head of the Household of His Majesty the King, Sabino Fernández. The monarch assured that Fernández was “a mole” and that he was very hurt by it, because he divulged sensitive information about the Royal Household.
This is the conversation between Juan Carlos I and Bárbara Rey about Sabino Fernández to which he had access ‘OKDIARIO’:
Bárbara Rey: But let’s see, if you’ve always behaved very well with him… Is there anything he’s not happy with you for?
Juan Carlos I: I don’t know. I don’t know.
Bárbara Rey: But, dissatisfied with you in particular, or with you and the queen? Or is he only after you?
Juan Carlos I: No… He says I managed to convince the Queen to be against him.
Bárbara Rey: But didn’t you tell me that sometimes you even felt that you had seen her, as if you had a certain confidence in her?
Juan Carlos I: Yes, yes. But after he left, he said I made her turn on him.
Bárbara Rey: But is the queen against him?
Juan Carlos I: No, no… not at all!
Bárbara Rey: So these are lies that he tells because he wants to tell them, but people don’t know that and a person who has been so close to you…
Juan Carlos I: Yes, but he invents things with journalists about private life, economic life, this life… Wow, the things he says! (…) There are meetings where they criticize me and talk about me… and about my life and things… and so… They invent and so and, then, he is present and, instead of cutting off, he says : “Well, if I said: ‘If I said… But, of course, since I cannot speak because of my loyalty, because of my years in the House…’
Bárbara Rey: So it warms up… it adds fuel to the fire…
Juan Carlos I: It’s worse than if I said it.
On the other hand, the king dedicated a few words to Alfonso Armada after his silence after February 23: “Word of honorI laugh, darling, Alphonse Armada. He spent seven years in prison, he went to his mansion in Galicia and his uncle never said a word. Never! On the other hand, this other one is leaving…”
