Infanta Cristina and Iñaki Urdangarin Announce Separation; Jan. 2022


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Apparently, inside the magazine there are more photos where they appear holding hands and hugging....

First reactions to photos of Iñaki Urdangarin with another woman:

Pablo Urdangarin: "These are things that happen, we will talk about it among ourselves". "We're fine, we're all calm, we're going to love each other the same and nothing else is needed."
https://www.telecinco.es/elprograma...7301.html#utm_source=apoyo_editorial_articulo

https://www.europapress.es/chance/r...os-nos-vamos-querer-igual-20220119134008.html

https://www.hola.com/actualidad/20220119203116/pablo-urdangarin-inaki-fotos-otra-mujer/

Infanta Elena in silence when faced with questions from journalists.
https://www.telecinco.es/elprograma...aicion-urdangarin-cristina_18_3269447131.html

https://www.europapress.es/chance/r...titud-carinosa-otra-mujer-20220119103503.html

https://www.europapress.es/chance/r...esvelar-encuentra-hermana-20220119173238.html

Infanta Margarita's reaction:
https://www.europapress.es/chance/r...dangarin-infanta-cristina-20220119145340.html

The reaction of Maria Zurita, daughter of Infanta Margarita:
https://www.europapress.es/chance/r...cristina-inaki-urdangarin-20220119150816.html

Victoria Federica, daughter of Infanta Elena, did not react at all well when asked about photos of Iñaki Urdangarin.
https://www.europapress.es/chance/g...imagenes-inaki-urdangarin-20220119171606.html
 
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Pity! A clear cut - an officially announced separation/divorce first before starting something new - would have been better.
 
Weren't they all recently on holidays over Christmas?

And is it defiantly Inaki?

He might not have a fancy woman and its a case of mistaken identity?

Its really nasty of those 'journalists' to ask such personal question to the children and Infanta Elena.
 
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Blog Real said:
First reactions to photos of Iñaki Urdangarin with another woman:

Pablo Urdangarin: "These are things that happen, we will talk about it among ourselves". "We're fine, we're all calm, we're going to love each other the same and nothing else is needed."
https://www.telecinco.es/elprograma...7301.html#utm_source=apoyo_editorial_articulo

Infanta Elena in silence when faced with questions from journalists.
https://www.telecinco.es/elprograma...aicion-urdangarin-cristina_18_3269447131.html
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An interesting development for sure. Let us not get ahead of ourselves, but, in the hypothetical event that Cristina and Iñaki get a divorce, would that help Cristina's rehabilitation in Spain?

I know that in the eyes of most Spaniards, Cristina is guilty. But let us not forget that, whereas Iñaki served time, Cristina was acquitted by the Spanish courts of any wrongdoing. Must she live in exile in Switzerland forever?

EDIT: BTW, what's with the Spanish press to chase Pablo Nicolás all the time in Barcelona? Is it because he is the most accessible among Cristina's children?
 
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Mbruno said:
An interesting development for sure. Let us not get ahead of ourselves, but, in the hypothetical event that Cristina and Iñaki get a divorce, would that help Cristina's rehabilitation in Spain?

I know that in the eyes of most Spaniards, Cristina is guilty. But let us not forget that, whereas Iñaki served time, Cristina was acquited by the Spanish courts of any wrongdoing. Must she live in exile in Switzerland forever?

EDIT: BTW, what's with the Spanish press to chase Pablo Nicolás all the time in Barcelona? Is it because he is the most accessible among Cristina's children?
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Infanta Cristina does not live in Spain because she works in Switzerland, at the Aga Khan Foundation, and some of her children study there. But whenever she wants, she can move to Spain. I believe that with a possible divorce she can get closer to the family, especially Felipe and appear in public with the family without problems. Christina was acquitted.
 
Mbruno said:
EDIT: BTW, what's with the Spanish press to chase Pablo Nicolás all the time in Barcelona? Is it because he is the most accessible among Cristina's children?
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I think he's the only one residing in Spain as he's studying in Barcelona
I believe he's 8th in the Line of Succession also.
 
Supposing from Pablo's diplomatic answer, something is up in fact :(
 
I have to say, that I am not even sure that this is Inaki. It could be the back of anyone. Of course, why would the journalist take a picture of just anyone and then say it is Inaki? If true then Pablo's words are a bit telling. Nothing surprises me anymore with Inaki and Christina.
 
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I have to say, that I am not even sure that this is Inaki. It could be the back of anyone. Of course, why would the journalist take a picture of just anyone and then say it is Inaki? If true then Pablo's words are a bit telling. Nothing surprises me anymore with Inaki and Christina.
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Exactly, if you run such a story, there is no mistaken identity. The pictures are out in the open, it's clear that it is him. Maybe the journos were even tipped off to get the story out. Cristina is a private person in that respect, she would not announce a separation anyway.
I am actually surprised it lasted that long, there have been lots of rumors of Inakis infidelity.
 
I really didn't expect It.
Hola says that Cristina is calm, phoned JC yesterday to tell him and doesn't yet know if she'll make any decision. (Perhaps because it's not the first time she may think it's up to her but Iñaki brazenly putting himself in this public position may mean that he's the one ready to end the marriage)
I wonder what JC thinks about this. First because he really pushed Cristina to divorce Iñaki when their financial scandal came to light, if she hadn't chosen Iñaki he would have kept her in the Royal fold and instead he had to banish her from his abdication...
And secondly because he's done the same to her mother.
 
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:previous: I agree. The time to divorce Inaki was in the thick of the NOOS scandal but she remained steadfastly by his side...now this.

I thought if they got through that they would make it through anything.

In a way it shouldn't be surprising if this is the way it ends. When Inaki became involved with Cristina, he was repeatedly deeply involved with another woman(Carmen Cami).:ermm:
 
I think Inaki was about to get engaged when he left his then-girlfriend for the Infanta.
Yes the time to divorce Inaki was much earlier but maybe the love has been one-sided for a long time and Inaki wanted out, not Cristina. By posing out in the open with a new woman Inaki got the facts straight and enforce the separation or at least put it in motion.
 
I remember so well the Infanta's two weddings whose Husbands became duke of Lugo and Duke of Palma de Majorca.
This Glory days are over for the whole royal family.
 
Duke of Marmalade said:
I think Inaki was about to get engaged when he left his then-girlfriend for the Infanta.
Yes the time to divorce Inaki was much earlier but maybe the love has been one-sided for a long time and Inaki wanted out, not Cristina. By posing out in the open with a new woman Inaki got the facts straight and enforce the separation or at least put it in motion.
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Good thoughts DOM! This makes me wonder if Inaki may have stayed in the marriage at the time of the trial thinking that Christina and family would keep him out of prison? And now that he's "out", he feels he can move forward with his life without the SRF.
 
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I thought if they got through that they would make it through anything.
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Yes I did too and I feel so sorry for the children especially Don Pablo Nicolás being badgered by the gutter press and after all they've gone through over the past few years.
 
 
 
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Staged by whom though?
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By Inaki to get the story finally out. Now everybody knows. If you want to keep it private you don't go walking hand in hand on a beach. I don't think there are paparazzi waiting for Inaki to appear in that area so maybe they were told about this opportunity.
 
Hopefully whatever is happening is just new to us, and the family is already amicably working out the next steps, whatever they may be.

Pablo certainly handled himself better than most experienced royals and celebrities.
 
I really feel for Pablo to be required to answer 'for the family' but he did so admirably. However, his answers seem to suggest that something indeed is going on. It's a bit weird though that he did talk to his father and siblings but not yet to his mother...

And I feel for Cristina very much as well. She stood by her husband over very trying times and now while his sentence is coming to a close he decides to move ahead with the wife of a friend?

The article also discusses how it must be really painful for Cristina but their guess is that she isn't surprised as the arrangement of Iñaki living in Basque country with Cristina in Geneva was already a rather weird one for a couple that was finally able to be together again after being separated by Iñaki's imprisonment for a while. In addition, they discuss the pictures taken over Christmas of a rather somber Cristina walking and talking with her sisters-in-law, a dinner between queen Sofia, infanta Elena and infanta Cristina on the 2nd of January and Iñaki who didn't show up for Pablo's game as indicators that something was going on.

Moreover, the pictures were taken last week on Tuesday, so it seems they've given the family a heads-up (not surprised if they were staged by Iñaki indeed) - as the article mentions that the emeritus king was informed yesterday by the infanta.
 
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Hopefully whatever is happening is just new to us, and the family is already amicably working out the next steps, whatever they may be.

Pablo certainly handled himself better than most experienced royals and celebrities.
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I agree 100%. Very impressive young man.
 
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And I feel for Cristina very much as well. She stood by her husband over very trying times and now while his sentence is coming to a close he decides to move ahead with the wife of a friend?
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The friend's wife is supposed to be a previous affair that came to light during the trial (leaked e-mails)

This woman is said to be a lawyer working at the law firm he's working in Vitoria (a condition of his relaxed sentence is for him to work)

I don't think it's a red flag that they were living separately. He can't move abroad (he has to check in weekly with prison) and Cristina is probably enjoying the anonimity of Geneva and is completely understandable that they don't want to uproot Irene again if she's settled at her school (first Barcelona, then DC, Barcelona again, Geneva)

I feel very sorry for the kids, especially Pablo who looks like he's going to have to field the press.

The gossip press is now saying that the pics were taken by a tourist and they were caught, It was not leaked. It's very dumb, when you are as well known as Urdangarín, to go to a public place where you've been holidaying your whole life with your secret girlfriend...but I guess he's dumb enough.

We'll see what happens in the future.

(BTW he didn't go to work today, obviously the press was waiting outside)
 
At the end of the day Cristina is the daughter, granddaughter and sister of a king. There is a way back to reconciliation with Felipe eventually. They were once very close.

She and her children will be fine.

It's Inaki who rose and fell the hardest. He went from being an Olympian, to a Royal Duke and son-in-law to the king of Spain....then to convicted felon and inmate. Now he's taken up with the wife of a "friend".

Before the NOOS scandal I thought of Cristina and Inaki as the golden couple of the SRF. They appeared to have it all.

That they revealed themselves to be greedy, dishonest and in Inaki's case truly vulgar to boot makes me very sad.
 
I find it rather surprising that Iñaki has chosen to publically humiliate his wife even further than he already did. There is no need to walk hand in hand in public with what supposedly is his mistress.

I don't think Cristina deserved this humiliation - after all she suffered with him & having to raise 4 children on her own. And considering Pablo's dignified & mature way of handling himself she seemed to have been doing a great job. If the couple is going for a divorce & has been separated he could have waited until it was announced before taking another woman out in public & being a further embarrassement to his wife, children and relatives.
 
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"Iñaki Urdangarin and Ainhoa Armentia reappear together after the Lecturas exclusive.

The first words of the still husband of the Infanta Cristina were immediate: "These things happen and we are going to manage it in the best way", Iñaki stated confirming his new relationship but without wanting to go into details"


https://www.lecturas.com/actualidad...entia-acuden-juntos-a-su-lugar-trabajo_114188
https://www.lecturas.com/actualidad...n-tras-sus-fotografias-ainhoa-armentia_114189


Obviously staged to force the Infanta to accept that their marriage was over. For me the Inaki is unacceptable!
 
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Urdangarín arrives to the law firm where he and his girlfriend work this morning:

We'll manage this as best as we can, as we've always done:

https://www.europapress.es/chance/r...paracion-infanta-cristina-20220120085049.html

A "friend"of Cristina: Iñaki told Cristina and the kids after this summer, she's all cried out over this and has accepted he won't go back to her. September was what she called the worst month of her life:
https://www.cope.es/actualidad/espa...-entero-nueva-amistad-marido-20220120_1737754
 
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Marengo said:
I don't think Cristina deserved this humiliation - after all she suffered with him & having to raise 4 children on her own.
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Some people say (not necessarily me) That he went to prison for 2 or 3 people .Meaning he was guilty but also covered up for Juan Carlos and or Cristina as well, and went to jail while they did not, so he doesn't owe them a thing.

But yes, even if that's true, he should have waited for the announcement of a separation before appearing in public like this.
 
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