Corinna Larsen, ex-lover of King Juan Carlos, requests a claim for damages of 126 million pounds (about 146 million euros) in the lawsuit that she has filed against the former monarch for alleged harassment, as the defense of the former has made public on Tuesday. Spanish head of state. The London High Court held a preliminary session on Tuesday on the lawsuit filed in 2020 by Larsen, who attended the hearing.
The team of Juan Carlos I, who considers that the English courts do not have jurisdiction over the lawsuit, has asked this Tuesday that it be dismissed and rejects that the former Spanish head of state harassed his former lover, as she insists.
The High Court of London began today to attend the first preliminary session on the lawsuit that Corinna -presented today in court- has filed against the emeritus, after the Court of Appeal in England and Wales recognized in 2022 the ex-monarch’s immunity – against allegations of harassment – until his abdication, on June 18, 2014.
In the first of the four sessions reserved for the case, the lawyer defending King Juan Carlos, Adam Wolanski, detailed his arguments before Judge Collins Rice, in room number 13 of the Superior Court, and reviewed the sentimental relationship between Corinna and the emeritus.
The lawyer also made technical observations on the numerous amendments that Corinna’s defense has made to her lawsuit after it was filed in 2020.
The lawyer insisted that the plaintiff’s case has no real prospects of prospering due to lack of evidence.
Wolanski mentioned the favorable comments that Corinna made in her day towards Juan Carlos I, whom she considered her dear friend, and her intention to maintain the friendship.
Corinna accuses the emeritus of having harassed her personally or through people around her between 2012 and 2020, although the allegations in the period until June 18, 2014 have been left out because the Court of Appeal has recognized her immunity.
Wolanski also revealed, before the judge, Corinna’s attempt to contact the Spanish Royal House to open “communication channels”, shortly before filing the lawsuit, with the clear attempt to reach some kind of out-of-court agreement.
As explained by the lawyer, the plaintiff tried, with this contact, to “bribe” and “threaten”, because she said that she was willing to tell details of the emeritus to the press.
The former Spanish head of state denies “emphatically” that he has committed or directed any type of harassment of the plaintiff and rejects her allegations to the contrary as false.
Corinna, for her part, considers that the alleged harassment caused her anxiety and depression, as well as loss of income due to an alleged campaign to smear her.
