The photographs published by the Dutch magazine «Privé»This week in which Don Juan Carlos appears with Bárbara Rey in a loving attitude has served to update a stage in the history of Spain, when the Monarch, now retired, was the Head of State. The intervention of the CNI (at that time CESID) has also served to resume the supposed payments of reserved funds again. in bedroom matters, the war of dossiers, illegal recordings, Mario Conde’s conversations with Bárbara Rey and the chalet on Sextante Street owned by the CESID/CNI where Don Juan Carlos went with other friends, but not with the artist. For the new generations, all these stories of love affairs, where not only the retired Monarch had an alternative life to his marriage, but also high-level politicians and businessmen, are new.
The theme of Bárbara Rey and Don Juan Carlos appears in the book “The Solitude of the King” (2004), by García Abad, but journalists such as Antonio Herrero, Julián Lago and Pepe Oneto already published in the “Letters to the editor” of their media the keys to what now seems new. And reports appeared where the “dangerous friends of the King” who provided confidential information were already located. Some were published directly, but, if it was difficult to contrast those data known by those who handled political and economic power, they were subordinated as mere comments. The information was handled and discussed long before Corina Larsen dedicated herself to applying pressure as she did with lawsuits that she lost in every instance. Young politicians would be better informed if they were interested in looking at the newspaper library. Google does not update this data.
Marta Gayá was on the cover of the weekly “Época” when the biography of “the Balearic lady” was already known in the directors’ offices. It was a euphemism that was used to name it, although there was no self-censorship afterwards to specify the relationship with the phrase “they attribute to the King a relationship with Marta Gayá.” In August 1992, the magazine “Tiempo” published the following cover: “Attack on the King’s privacy.” And in January 1993, “Revolution in Zarzuela”, with the departure of General Sabino Fernández Campo as head of the General Secretariat of His Majesty’s House. The information provided had to do with the role of Jiminy Grillo in the personal life of Don Juan Carlos, with friends who ended up prosecuted and some in prison.
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It was the son of one of the most prominent figures of the pink scene who provided the photos of Don Juan Carlos and Bárbara Rey. They were already published without censorship or self-censorship. Ángel Cristo Jr. already advanced in the program “On Friday!” that he had compromised material that demonstrated the relationship. And, even more so, that he had been the one who had made the graphic report, implying that they were very compromising photos to give free rein to the collective imagination.
Bárbara Rey tells me that they were made in 1994 in her house in Boadilla del Monte, that it was not her son and that what they show is the relationship that existed. «I was single and this material and other things that are my privacy have been stolen by my son. “For me it has been a very hard blow.” The artist will sue her son, who already had another legal claim for accusing her of blackmailing the Crown.
We must remember the personal notes of Emilio Alonso Manglano. This soldier who directed the Secret Services for fourteen years (1981-1995) already appeared in general information magazines (“Tiempo”, “Cambio” and “Época”) as the instigator of recordings of the monarch by the CESID. One of them was the conversation between Don Juan Carlos and his close friend Josep Cusí in which he confessed his love for Marta Gayá in 1990. and her desire to get divorced. In 2017, this confession was leaked and the relationship became known. It went from being the “amour fou” of the Head of State to a deep relationship of friendship maintained, even when Corina Larsen burst in like an elephant in a china shop. In 1992 her name and a photo were published in the magazine “Época” under the headline “The Lady of the Rumor.” Later, “Tiempo” would give more information about this enigmatic woman. Now, more than three decades after that first meeting in 1990 facilitated by Prince Zourab Tchokotua, it seems that everything is new. Manglano’s second “new thing” was alleged payments of funds reserved for the King that his successor Alberto Saiz, director of the CNI In the years from 2004 to 2009, not only would he not confirm, but he stated the opposite. Now everything seems new when it is not.