European monarchies have, in their centuries of history, repeated episodes of affairs and infidelities. From the multiple romances of Eleanor of Aquitaine, part of the extinct French royalty, in the 12th century, to the not-so-secret romance of the current King of England ,Carlos III, with Camila Parker Bowles cheating on Lady Di, royal blood seems to have a predilection for double lives. However, in times when access to information and social networks have changed lifestyles, secret romances are more difficult to sustain in secret.
The royal families of Denmark and Spain are involved in their own cuckolding stories that have endless spices and versions that turn them into a soap opera in real time.
In cold Denmark, the brand new King Frederick X lives his own ordeal after a series of photos of the then prince in Spain with the actress Genovesa Casanova were published. According to the Iberian media, both were walking in Retiro Park without being recognized.
Due to all these rumors surrounding Frederick Both Margaret II and her son Frederick X managed to gather a large crowd that gathered to celebrate the proclamation of their new king by the Danish Prime Minister, Mette Frederiksen. However, the effusive kiss that the new monarch gave to his wife and now his queen consort, Mary Donaldson, stole the attention. In Denmark, they claim that this gesture sought to erase the clandestine romance in one fell swoop and try to conceal the tensions within the royal marriage. According to the Danish media, it was a gesture calculated to convince public opinion that the couple is in good health, although new details of the now king’s double life continue to come to light.
In Spain, meanwhile, Letizia Ortiz and King Carlos VI continue to be in the crosshairs of the tabloid press, which continues to discover details that put their marriage in check. Although the royal couple tries to maintain the union, many claim that they do so solely for their daughters: Princess Leonor and Infanta Sofía.
In recent days, it has come to light that if it is Letizia Ortiz who requests a divorce from King Carlos VI, he would be the one who retains custody of Princess Leonor and Infanta Sofía, which is why the raina consort of Spain, does not agree to the separation.
The book “Letizia and I” published by Jaime Peñafiel in Spain at the beginning of December 2023 caused damage that extends to the present day. The journalist wrote the chronology of the alleged infidelity of Princess Leonor’s mother. The book has the collaboration of Jaime del Burgo who claims that he maintained a relationship with the monarch during her royal engagement to Felipe VI and that her courtship ended two days before her wedding. In the middle, Jaime married Telma Ortiz and became Letizia’s legal brother-in-law, so the alleged infidelity that they would have resumed in 2012 generates even greater complications.
The soap opera has been spreading for months and is the main topic of conversation among Spaniards, orphans of stories of royal cuckolding after the abdication of Juan Carlos I, in 2014, carried out in the midst of a national scandal after multiple women claimed to have been his lovers. .
For the moment, Argentina’s Máxima Zorreguieta has been setting the bar high and being the exception to the rule in the Kingdom of Orange-Nassau. The rest of the European monarchies live their own soap opera and all of them add chapters day by day.
