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This Wednesday a retro photo of King Emeritus Juan Carlos I of Spain having a kiss with Barbara Rey, 74 years old. This news, which shook the crown, would thus confirm long-standing rumors about the relationship between Felipe VI’s father and this woman related to the world of entertainment. Who is she.
The images of the King with his ex-lover.
The Dutch magazine Private He was the one who published the photo and unleashed a real scandal. In The image, which was taken in May 1994, shows them kissing while hugging. At that time, the former monarch was still married to Queen Sofia.
Currently Bárbara Rey is 74 years old (Source: Instagram/@barbararey_oficial)
From the images, many wonder who Bárbara Rey is. It is about a Spanish actress and former vedette who hosted various television programs and was considered a beauty icon in the 80s and 90s.
Bárbara Rey was considered a Sex Symbol in her time (Source: GTRES Agency)
The woman had a very active life in entertainment and Iberian fashion: in 1970 she was crowned Maja of Murcia and Second Lady of Honor of Miss Spain. The latter catapulted her to world fame by representing her country in the competition. Miss Universe. Before 2000 she was closely linked to King Juan Carlos, but until now they were just rumors.
After his time on the catwalk, he landed in the cinema with the so-called “uncovering genre”which characterized it as sex symbol Spanish. In just a decade he recorded 43 filmsamong them The national shotgun y I feel strange.
On television he was part of TV honorswhere he acted and performed different musical themes that allowed him release your own album with children’s songsaccording to indicated the magazine Readings. While he was triumphing on the small screen, he moved to the stage, where She starred in 20 plays as a star and dancer.
Bárbara Rey starred in 43 films and 20 plays in Spain (Source: Instagram/@Profile photo of dani10lola Profile photo of barbararey_oficial barbararey_oficial)
She had two children with the actor and businessman Ángel Cristo: Ángel Jr. and Sofía Papadópoulos García. The first of them was the one who was now in the eye of the storm, since he is accused of being the one who gave the photo to the magazine Private.
After the photo of Juan Carlos and Bárbara Rey became known, the journalist Silvia Taulés told on the Spanish television program TardeAR What was the reaction of the Royal House after confirming that there was a romance between the two 30 years ago.
“Scandalized. They are surprised that these images could be published because it is in a private place. He is the victim of a hunt. They do not think about the war between Bárbara and Ángel, but rather the final objective is Juan Carlos,” he said. He also added: “In addition, it is a very happy and relaxed moment and they destroyed all the joy he could have had. I was happy [el emérito] because he had found his place after all the problems and now he finds himself in a mess of skirts that he had overcome”. Meanwhile, he announced that an official announcement from the royal family is not expected, since it is due to an issue in his intimate life.
For its part, Bárbara Rey broke the silence after the leak of the image. He sent an audio to the Spanish television program Public Mirror and assured that will file a complaint to find out how the images reached the Dutch media. According to what was learned, he is having a confrontation with his son Ángel Jr. and he would have approached the press as a form of revenge. “It’s hard for me to talk. I don’t want to talk about my son at all, but he didn’t take those photographs. He, the only thing he has done is stealing all that type of material and many other private things of mine when I went to live in Marbella. They will have to prove in court why this is not going to stay like this,” she said furiously.
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