00:00Former King describes Princess Diana as cold, taciturn, distant, following past affair rumors.
00:08Juan Carlos I, who reigned as the King of Spain from 1975 until his abdication in June 2014,
00:15is opening up about his relationship with the late Princess Diana.
00:19The former monarch, who is said to have had many extramarital affairs in his prime,
00:24has denied having a sexual relationship with the Princess of Wales,
00:27according to an excerpt from his upcoming memoir, Reconciliation, that was published Wednesday, October 29, in The Telegraph.
00:36In his book, Juan Carlos, now 87, also describes the beloved royal as cold, taciturn, distant, except in the presence of the paparazzi.
00:46Rumors of a relationship between Juan Carlos and Diana began after she and King Charles III took sons Prince William and Prince Harry to Merivant Palace,
00:55the Spanish royal family's summer home in Palma de Mallorca, on four summer visits in the late 1980s and 1990s.
01:03Around the same time, Charles, now 76, was having an affair with Queen Camilla, whom he later married in April 2005,
01:11following his divorce from Diana in 1996 and her sudden death the following year.
01:16Though Diana never publicly addressed the rumors about her and Juan Carlos,
01:21The Telegraph reports that her biographer, Andrew Morton, said she called him a very libidinous man, adding,
01:28I felt uncomfortable being left alone with him in a room, although I can assure you that nothing happened.
01:34Diana tragically died in a car crash in Paris in August 1997 while her driver was fleeing the paparazzi.
01:41She was 36. Her ex-husband, Charles, became king of the United Kingdom upon his mother Queen Elizabeth II's death in 2022.
01:51Juan Carlos abdicated the throne in 2014 after being involved in multiple scandals.
01:57His memoir, titled Reconciliation, is slated to be published in France next week.
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