On October 16, 2020, emeritus king Juan Carlos' former lover and business associate Corinna Zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn filed a civil lawsuit against him in England's High Court for alleged harassment under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997. He strongly denied her allegations.
On March 24, 2022, the High Court judge handed down a judgment rejecting the Defendant (Juan Carlos)'s claim of state immunity under the UK's State Immunity Act 1978. The decision allows the Claimant (Corinna) to proceed with her civil case against him in the English court.
The judgment:
https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content...ittgenstein-Sayn-v-Borbon-Judgment-230322.pdf
Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn v HM Juan Carlos Alfonso Victor Maria De Borbon Y Borbon [2022] EWHC 668 (QB) (24 March 2022)
Summary of the judgment:
https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content...Wittgenstein-Sayn-v-Borbon-Summary-230322.pdf
Quoting from the summary,
The judgment, at paragraph 8, quotes particulars of the claims made by Corinna against Juan Carlos. She alleges "harassment in the period from April 2012 to 18 June 2014" by agents of the Spanish intelligence service (CNI) and/or King Juan Carlos, including "physical surveillance which included vehicle and personal surveillance, trespassing onto her property at which she was residing and hacking into her/their telephones and computers", in order to "find and remove any documents in her possession related to his business and financial dealings; to ascertain any information about the Claimant which might be used to pressurise her to comply with his wishes; to prevent her from providing information in respect of anything which might incriminate him; and to install surveillance equipment".
She further claims that the head of the CNI threatened her and her children's lives if she acted against King Juan Carlos's interests and that King Juan Carlos himself supplied defamatory allegations about her to the media.
Her allegations of harassment by the Spanish security services first surfaced when a secret recording taped in 2015 was leaked by retired Spanish police chief José Manuel Villarejo to the media in July 2018.
https://okdiario.com/investigacion/...da-mis-hijos-rey-juan-carlos-lo-sabia-2595390
https://www.elespanol.com/espana/20...z-roldan-hizo-amenazas-hijos/321468445_0.html
https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2018/07/16/inenglish/1531729422_476862.html
In the years following, she discussed her allegations in numerous interviews.
https://okdiario.com/investigacion/...los-distancia-que-siguiera-siendo-rey-6244769
https://www.parismatch.com/Royal-Blog/Juan-Carlos-Corinna-son-ex-maitresse-sort-les-griffes-1704420
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-53749630