Journalist Pilar Eyre, a renowned expert in matters of the Royal Household, has revealed some unknown episodes about Queen Sofía in Lecturas magazine. This information has left many people stunned. According to what she has said, Doña Sofía has carried out small and calculated acts of revenge over the years against the women who were romantically linked to King Emeritus Juan Carlos I.
Eyre has explained that Sofía had prevented, for example, Corinna Larsen's son, Alexander, from entering a prestigious British school. She did so by maneuvering so that English aristocratic families would turn their backs on him.
In the end, the young man ended up studying at a renowned Swiss boarding school. King Juan Carlos I's relationship with Corinna deeply hurt Sofía, and that supposed act of revenge would have been one of the ways she showed her discontent.
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It wasn't the only one. The journalist has reported that Sofía would have tried to get Mallorcan society to ostracize Marta Gayá, another of the women with whom Juan Carlos was involved.
In that case, the king himself would have prevailed and Sofía's wishes would not have been fulfilled. She punished other women with social exclusions: she crossed them off the guest lists for receptions at Palacete Albéniz or prevented them from mooring their boats in Mallorca.
The royal household expert has uncovered everything she knows about Doña Sofía's past
Even, according to Pilar Eyre, she personally supervised the sending of invitations to celebrations at Campo del Moro, where mysterious cross-outs appeared on the names of certain ladies. Sometimes, these exclusions would have been due to mere suspicions, the woman's beauty, or her reputation as a seductress. Names like Isabel Preysler, Tita Cervera, or Marta Chávarri would always have received a cold treatment from the queen.
The expert has also recalled that, when the royals were simply "Sofi and Juanito," Sofía had repeatedly refused to travel to Estoril. Officially, she did so to please Franco, who didn't approve of visits to Don Juan. However, Eyre has stated that the queen suspected that behind each of her husband's childhood friends there could be a girlfriend.
Pilar has concluded that, despite the public image of cordiality, in private the relationship between Sofía and Juan Carlos would have been characterized by "the most absolute indifference." Meanwhile, by a series of silent but calculated reprisals that have marked the intimate history of the Royal Household.