The names of Albert Solà and Ingrid Sartiau made headlines long before Alejandra's as alleged illegitimate children of King Juan Carlos. But their parentage has never been proven or acknowledged.
The journalists Jose Maria Olmo and David Fernández will publish in May "King Corp. The never told empire of Juan Carlos I" (Books of the K.O.), an investigative work in which it is revealed that the father of King Felipe VI has a secret daughter. She is over fifty years old, lives in Spain, is married, and has a son. According to the authors, this is a fact known to the king and the entire royal family.
This woman, who according to some journalists is called Alejandra, as Pilar Eyre revealed some time ago, has never claimed any kind of right from her alleged father. It seems that she is the daughter of an aristocratic family and that Don Juan Carlos and his mother met on a hunt.
The girl grew up not knowing who her father was. They told her when she was already an adult, but she decided that she did not want to know anything about her supposed paternal family. On the contrary, Don Juan Carlos tried, according to the authors of the book, to approach her, although he never introduced her to her children. However, this woman is not the only alleged illegitimate daughter of the king emeritus.
Albert Solá, the alleged son of King Juan Carlos
In October, Albert Solá died suddenly of natural causes. He was 66 years old, lived in La Bisbal (Girona), and had gone to court in 2015 to prove that he was the son of Juan Carlos I. However, the Supreme Court did not accept his claim for processing, because it hid data and did not present a DNA test.
Solá published an autobiography entitled El Monarca de La Bisbal (Ediciones B). His claim became the engine of his existence because it would have shown that he was the rightful heir to the throne. He wrote hundreds of letters to Juan Carlos I demanding a meeting, something that never took place. Solá was working as a waiter when he died. In La Bisbal, everyone knew his story. He even appealed the decision of the Supreme Court and requested protection from the Constitutional Court, which also did not accept his claim.
Albert Solá came out in a report in The New York Times, in 2021. He said that he had been adopted by a couple of peasants, Salvador Solà and Antonia Jiménez, but that he found out, through comments and people who approached him, that He was the son of King Juan Carlos. Apparently, he had been born in Barcelona in 1956, the result of the relationship that Juan Carlos I had with what would be his biological mother, Anna María Bach Ramon, a young woman belonging to the Catalan high bourgeoisie, who gave him up for adoption. The young woman was then 21 years old and the emeritus was 18.
Ingrid Sartiau, who wanted to be recognized as the king's daughter
The other best-known illegitimate son of Juan Carlos is a woman, the Belgian Ingrid Sartiau. Today she is 57 years old and she has been trying since 2013 to be recognized as the daughter of the king emeritus. She says that she found out the truth about her paternity because her mother told her. Although the courts never managed to admit her lawsuit, filed in 2015, Ingrid has repeated her story on numerous occasions before the television cameras.
The courts have always objected that her testimony is full of contradictions and that the DNA evidence that she has presented about her does not clarify anything. She joined with Albert Solá, her alleged stepbrother, to mutually support her claims.
According to Ingrid, her mother, Lilian Sartiau, met the then-Prince Juan Carlos while working as a housekeeper for an important Belgian family. They began to write to each other and have secret meetings. It was a crush, and Lilian didn't know who her lover was. She found out months later and freaked out. She feared that her daughter would be taken from her.
However, after a few years in which Lillian left her daughter in the care of some peasants, mother, and daughter would return to live together, leading a comfortable life beyond their means. Ingrid's sister, Huguette, assures that everything was due to the care of Juan Carlos I. Important people visited them to take an interest in the girl.
Ingrid discovered the truth in 2012 when the Juan Carlos incident in Botswana. One of the Belgian television news reported on the news. It was then that Lillian told the whole story to her daughter, that she has always tried to point out her resemblance to the Bourbons. But her life has been difficult, because of the depression that her situation has caused him.
The woman lives in Belgium and is the mother of a daughter named Aude. She usually congratulates the emeritus on her birthday through social networks. She shares all kinds of news related to him. Last May she was in Spain when the emeritus visited Galicia and was one of the people who waited for him at the gates of La Zarzuela to cheer him on.
"I would like to meet the royal family, although I know it would not be welcome," she said. Sartiau contacted a prestigious Belgian geneticist, Jean-Jacques Cassiman, and provided him with his and Solà's analyses to determine the relationship. But the results of the study are controversial. According to the doctor, they showed that they were not the children of Juan Carlos.
María Alexandra is another Barcelona woman who claims to have been born from an extramarital relationship that the emeritus had in the sixties. She works as a salesperson and also tried to prove her parentage. She claimed money because she has a disability and receives a pension of 460 euros.
