They had not seen each other for five years. King Juan Carlos and his still son-in-law Iñaki Urdangarin have met again this Friday in Geneva where the family has gathered to attend Irene Urdangarin’s graduation and, also, celebrate her 18th birthday. The youngest daughter, and only girl, of the Infanta Cristina has reunited her parents in the Swiss city, separated in fact; her brothers, Juan, Pablo and Miguel; her grandparents, Juan Carlos and Sofía, and Claire Liebaert, as well as her cousins ??Felipe and Victoria de Marichalar and her aunt, the Infanta Elena, as well as some of her paternal cousins ??and some of her friends she.
The Four Seasons hotel in Geneva has been the family meeting point, where this morning the Infanta Cristina with her sons, and Iñaki Urdangarin with his mother, his daughter and his niece Victoria have been seen coming and going. The entrance and exit of the hotel establishment has been somewhat comical, since the hotel employees have tried to hide them behind some umbrellas, despite the fact that the sun was shining in Geneva.
The kings Juan Carlos and Sofía, who arrived separately yesterday in the Swiss city, have left the hotel together shortly after, in the company of the Infanta Elena and Felipe de Marichalar and have got into the same car, heading towards the facilities from the École International de Geneve (Ecolint) where Irene Urdangarin’s graduation ceremony takes place. It is planned that tonight, the family and some close friends will participate in a celebration for the coming of age of Irene, who turned 18 on June 5.
This Friday is the first time, since January 15, 2018, in which there is evidence of a family meeting between King Juan Carlos and Iñaki Urdangarin. On that occasion, Juan Carlos attended the celebration for the 50th birthday of Iñaki, who six months later, on June 18, 2018, would enter the Brieva prison (Ávila) to begin serving his sentence of five years and ten months. to those who were sentenced for the Nóos case.
The last time that Iñaki Urdangarin appeared at an official act of the royal family was on October 12, 2011; shortly after, after the outbreak of the Nóos case, he was separated from the Zarzuela.
It is also the first time that the parents of the Infanta Cristina meet Iñaki Urdangarin after his relationship with Ainhoa ??Armentia came to light. And in the list of special occasions, it is also the first in which there is evidence of a meeting between the Infanta Cristina, Iñaki Urdangarin, her children and closest relatives, after the announcement of the marital separation.
