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Last year, Spain’s former king skedaddled from his home country, where he was at the centre of investigations into alleged bribery and money laundering.

But that’s not the only cause of his downfall.

Juan Carlos lost everything after stories of an elephant-hunting trip in Botswana with (one of) his mistress(es), as well as rampant womanising, came to the fore.

The New York Post reported in 2020 that for the nearly four decades that he was on the throne, he was rumoured to have had nearly 5 000 lovers, according to a retired colonel:

“Juan Carlos I is an authentic sex addict and a sexual predator,” said Martinez Ingles, a decorated soldier and self-styled historian who claims that much of his information about the former king was derived from government intelligence sources.

“The most beautiful stars and the most spectacular representatives of high class Spanish and foreign women passed through his bed for temporary trysts, and he also disrespected women from much more modest backgrounds.”

His wife, Queen Sofia, is pictured by his side in the above image, but his marriage and political position did absolute zilch to squash his raging libido:

“She [the Queen] has put up with things that no woman should have to put up with, due to her determination that her son would be king and not to endanger Spain’s monarchy,” says Mábel Galaz, a veteran royal correspondent for the newspaper El País.

The Telegraph just came out with the fact that he had to be injected with female hormones in an attempt to stimy his sex drive, which was considered a “state problem”:

José Manuel Villarejo, a disgraced former police commissioner entangled in allegations of spying, fraud and bribery, told Spain’s parliament that Juan Carlos had been administered testosterone blockers to dampen his “ardent” libido.

“They took everything away from him, he couldn’t be with a woman or anything,” said Mr Villarejo, who was at the centre of a scandal that eventually led to the king’s exile.

Mr Villarejo became aware of this via a conversation with Juan Carlos’s former lover, the German princess Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein:

According to one of the many conversations with the rich and powerful that Mr Villarejo recorded as a private investigator, Ms zu Sayn-Wittgenstein said that a French doctor who had treated Jacques Chirac had analysed Juan Carlos and concluded that he had been given “a lot of female hormones to take away his strength”.

Image: Mikhail Metzel / TASS

Ms zu Sayn-Wittgenstein went along on the ill-fated hunting trip in Botswana where Juan Carlos broke a hip, was flown back to Spain in a private jet, and then made to apologise to his country as it all occurred during Spain’s deep financial crisis:

Now, Ms zu Sayn-Wittgenstein is attempting to sue Juan Carlos for harassment in a UK court.

Apart from Ms zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, the former King also had a Miss World contestant called Bárbara Rey as a lover once.

She allegedly received millions of euros from the state to maintain her silence on the affair.

[source:telegraph]