Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein has assured in an episode of ‘Corinna and the King’, that Juan Carlos I threatened her and pushed her to suicide.
The chapters of the podcast ‘Corinna and the King’ have left no one indifferent. The controversial statements of the German businesswoman Larsen about her relationship with King Juan Carlos I are generating controversy and making headlines in the Spanish press.
What has Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein said about King Juan Carlos?
Corinna Larsen as she is also known, has offered her version of why she did not marry King Juan Carlos.
“I realized that the Catholic king could never divorce. He was surrounded by people who were clearly trying to make him happy and encouraging him to go through with this crazy plan and he would have to do it simply because you have to please the king.”
By the time the king has already abdicated, Larsen decides to change his attitude to the monarch and moves from maintaining a cordial relationship to trying to get as far away from him as possible.
“You realize that for everyone you are just a commoner who only has to do what she is told and that’s not the way I was brought up,” explains the German businesswoman about her reaction.
The businesswoman’s attitude affected Juan Carlos, who even went so far as to offer her a controversial noble title: princess of Borbon.
“It was all a fantasy, I didn’t take it seriously, I took it as a man who was quite desperate.”
The darker side of King Juan Carlos
In 2014 when the German lawyer began to see a change in his attitude and decided to terminate their romance when she realized that the emeritus king had other love affairs behind his back and that he wanted access to the 65 million euros that he had previously given her. From then on, what for the commission agent has been an absolute hell, to the point of considering death, began.
Corinna has revealed that she was cut off from her friends, as well as “threatened, persecuted and intimidated”. According to her version, Juan Carlos managed to make her lose all her reputation and her job, in addition to what the press was saying about her. “A large-scale propaganda strategy” to make her look like “the bad guy” in the eyes of the world.
The German has also told of a dark episode she experienced with King Juan Carlos. According to her version, the emeritus called her in January 2015 to threaten her with death. Specifically, the emeritus, told her that he was in Saudi Arabia at the funeral of King Abdullah, which she interpreted as a threat.
“Imagine telling the king of Saudi Arabia that that generous gift his brother [referring to the deceased king’s brother] had given to his friend had been stolen by this evil woman,” she claims in reference to the 65 million euros she received from the emeritus.
According to Corinna, that call pushed her to suicide:
“That destroyed any shred of hope I had of ever finding normality, peace or a happy life again. I realized, in 2015, the great efforts they were making to destroy me, but now I’m talking about more than the destruction of my reputation; I’m talking about the possibility of physical elimination or pushing me to suicide.”
In addition, Corinna stresses that she felt very lonely and on the verge of depression: “They wanted to show me that they had a global reach, that they could reach anyone.”
