{"id":555582,"date":"2025-11-07T18:08:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T18:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/555582\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T18:08:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T18:08:28","slug":"former-spanish-monarch-slams-the-late-princess-diana-as-cold-except-in-the-presence-of-the-paparazzi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/555582\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Spanish Monarch Slams the Late Princess Diana as \u2018Cold\u2019 Except \u2018in the Presence of the Paparazzi\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She may have been the People\u2019s Princess, but one former royal is saying it was all for show. In his new memoir, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Reconciliaci%C3%B3n-Memorias-Reconciliation-Juan-Carlos\/dp\/6073938144\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Reconciliation;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Reconciliation<\/a>, former Spanish monarch <strong>Juan Carlos<\/strong> describes the late <strong>Diana<\/strong>, Princess of Wales as \u201ccold, taciturn, distant, except in the presence of the paparazzi.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">For decades, there have been whispers that the womanizing 87-year-old \u2014 whose financial and romantic scandals forced him to abdicate the throne \u2014 had an affair with Diana while she was still wed to now-<strong>King Charles III<\/strong>. (The couple spent three summers at the Spanish royal family\u2019s summer home in Palma de Mallorca in the 1980s.)<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\" &lt;span class=&quot;wp-caption-text&quot;&gt;Kent Gavin\/Mirrorpix\/Newscom\/The Mega Agency&lt;\/span&gt;\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"1106\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/754fdb6122776a199a11a83214a0bcd3.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p> Kent Gavin\/Mirrorpix\/Newscom\/The Mega Agency<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">But it wasn\u2019t for lack of trying on Juan Carlos\u2019 part. \u201cI felt uncomfortable being left alone with him in a room, although I can assure you nothing happened,\u201d Diana reportedly told friends of the royal after one such trip, referring to Juan Carlos as \u201ca very libidinous man,\u201d per <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/king-juan-carlos-spain-addresses-rumors-affair-princess-diana-upcoming-memoir-11839449\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:People;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">People<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This story <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalexaminer.com\/former-spanish-monarch-slams-the-late-princess-diana-as-cold-except-in-the-presence-of-the-paparazzi\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Former Spanish Monarch Slams the Late Princess Diana as \u2018Cold\u2019 Except \u2018in the Presence of the Paparazzi\u2019;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Former Spanish Monarch Slams the Late Princess Diana as \u2018Cold\u2019 Except \u2018in the Presence of the Paparazzi\u2019<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalexaminer.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:National Examiner;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">National Examiner<\/a>. Add National Examiner as a <a href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=nationalexaminer.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Preferred Source by clicking here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She may have been the People\u2019s Princess, but one former royal is saying it was all for show.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[2830,89554,121706,2831,48796,5105,7710,519,448,177556,177555],"class_list":{"0":"post-555582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-diana","9":"tag-juan-carlos","10":"tag-national-examiner","11":"tag-princess-of-wales","12":"tag-reconciliation","13":"tag-royal","14":"tag-royal-families","15":"tag-royal-family","16":"tag-royals","17":"tag-spanish-monarch","18":"tag-spanish-royal-family"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115509757026920523","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}