After leaving a slightly sad handwritten letter to his son, Spain's 82-year-old king Juan Carlos left his homeland and began a life of "exile". It sounds a little pitiful, after all, it is an elderly man, how difficult it is to leave home. But the truth may be the opposite, according to multiple Spanish media reports, Juan Carlos did not go to Portugal nor to the Dominican Republic, but flew to Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, and began an enviable "exile" life. At the same time, it is also reported that Juan Carlos's departure was not voluntary, but requested by his king's son, and Felipe VI, 52, chose to send him away for fear that his father's scandals would affect the normal functioning of the royal family.
This is where Juan Carlos is currently staying, the world's only eight-star hotel, the emirates palace hotel, which is really enough to get away with. According to the Daily Mail, the hotel first opened in November 2005 with a total floor area of 850,000 square metres, compared to 77,000 square metres at Buckingham Palace. The hotel was built at a cost of £3 billion (about 27.2 billion rmb) to turn the palace in "One Thousand and One Nights" into reality, and despite the perennial heat in Abu Dhabi, with an average temperature of 42 degrees Celsius, the comfort of 22 degrees Celsius is always experienced in the hotel. With 302 luxurious rooms and 92 junior suites, many retired heads of state and movie stars have stayed, and it is reported that Juan Carlos lives on the top floor of the hotel, with only six presidential suites on the first floor, which costs 10,000 pounds (about 91,000 rmb) per night, "for all the UAE royals, this is beyond the standard", which is evident in the level of luxury.
According to the Spanish magazine lecturas, the old king who stayed in the eight-star hotel "was not alone, he had someone to sleep with him", "his most loyal friend of the past 40 years lived with him, the one who could tolerate everything, never let him down, accompany him, comfort him". And the so-called most loyal friend, in the eyes of the royal expert and writer Pilar Eyre, is marta gayá, the old king's lover. Marta is the daughter of a well-known real estate developer in Spain, who has been in and out of high society since she was a child, can be called a socialite, she has a marriage that lasted for 4 years, and her ex-husband is an engineer. Marta doesn't do business, she claims to be a decorator, and her friends think Marta is very tasteful.
According to the Spanish historian Amadeo martinez ingles, Juan Carlos had more than 5,000 lovers, and the number is somewhat surprising, and I don't know how the historian examined it, but in any case, the old king's affair is indeed well known. However, in Pilar Al's view, Marta is definitely able to stand out from many women, she has a unique charm, not only because she is "very beautiful and slim", but also "very friendly and has judgment", so there are also sources that Juan Carlos once praised Marta as "the love of her life".
Marta, 71, was photographed in a church with Juan Carlos three years ago, the first time the two had known each other in years, when comments called it "rekindling the flame of romance," but now it seems that the flame of romance has never been extinguished. At that time, the two were in the same frame, which also made Felipe VI fall into embarrassment, that is, the positive image of the royal family that was hard to establish after the throne was destroyed at once.
This time Juan Carlos had to leave his homeland because of a corruption scandal, and in 2014 he also chose to abdicate because of negative news, mainly because his private life was too chaotic, too many lovers to make the Spanish people unable to feel good about him, and in 2012, Spain experienced the worst economic recession in history, and he was found hunting elephants with German princesses in Botswana. As for her husband's behavior, the former queen Sophia has never expressed any opinion, she has become the object of sympathy of many people, and the once lively and lovely Greek princess has become a "wooden man" after experiencing the "mental torture" brought by her husband.
Sophia and Juan Carlos married in 1962 in the Catholic Cathedral of St. Dionysius in Athens, staging the fairytale story of a princess and a prince. But the fairy tale never went on, what would happen to the prince and princess later? In the 58-year marriage between the two, it is really "gathering less and leaving more", even if it is necessary to appear in different frames in order to perform their duties, it is just a matter of appearance and separation. In the words of royal experts, the couple lived separately after 1976. Why 1976? That year Juan Carlos was caught directly with a woman, and since then Sophia has been reluctant to share a bedroom with her husband, which is exactly what Juan Carlos wants.
Just the day after news of Juan Carlos's "exile", The 81-year-old Queen Sofia appeared on mallorca, wearing a striped shirt and white trousers, shopping. The onlookers also said different things, some people said she looked sad, others said she was smiling as always. The analysis of the Spanish media said that although both statements may be correct, it can be felt that she is extremely indifferent to her husband and does not care where he is going or who he is with.