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The former King of Spain is clearing up those <\/span>Princess Diana<\/strong><\/a> rumors.<\/span><\/p>\n Nearly three decades after her death, <\/span>King Juan Carlos<\/strong> denied that he and the Princess of Wales had an affair in the \u201880s.<\/span><\/p>\n In fact, the former monarch, 87, describes Diana in his forthcoming memoir <\/span>Reconciliation<\/span><\/em>, as \u201ccold, taciturn, distant, except in the presence of the paparazzi,\u201d according to a preview published in <\/span>The Telegraph<\/span><\/em><\/a> Oct. 29.<\/span><\/p>\n Between the summers of 1986 and 1988, King Juan Carlos welcomed Diana, her then-husband <\/span>King Charles III<\/strong><\/a>, <\/span>Prince William<\/strong><\/a> and <\/span>Prince Harry<\/strong><\/a> to the Spanish royal family\u2019s summer home in Palma de Mallorca. Given Charles\u2019 long-running affair at the time with now-<\/span>Queen Camilla<\/strong> and ongoing speculation that Juan Carlos had several extramarital affairs, rumors of a tryst between Diana and Juan Carlos swirled.<\/span><\/p>\n Though Diana never addressed the rumors publicly, she described the Spanish king\u2014who abdicated the throne in 2014 amid multiple scandals\u2014as \u201ca little too attentive\u201d after a trip to Mallorca, according to <\/span>Andrew Morton<\/strong>\u2019s book <\/span>Ladies of Spain<\/span><\/em>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.eonline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The former King of Spain is clearing up those Princess Diana rumors. Nearly three decades after her death, King Juan Carlos denied that he and the Princess of Wales had an affair in the \u201880s. In fact, the former monarch, 87, describes Diana in his forthcoming memoir Reconciliation, as \u201ccold, taciturn, distant, except in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2124744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2124743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/King-Juan-Carlos-of-Spain-on-Princess-Diana-Affair-Rumors.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2124743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2124745,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124743\/revisions\/2124745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2124744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2124743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2124743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2124743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}