MADRID (EFE) .- Philip IV of Spain yesterday gave one of the biggest surprises of his first year of reign: he ordered to withdraw the title of Duchess of Palma her sister Cristina de Borbon, who will be judged two tax offenses in connection with a corruption case in which processing is also her husband, Iñaki Urdangarin.
According to a statement released by the Spanish Royal Family, the Official Gazette published today Royal Decree by which the monarch revoked the use of noble titles to the princess, who won in 1997 at the behest of his father.
The middle child of King Juan Carlos Emeritus will be the first member of the royal family who feels before a court in the dock in court for which there is still no date set.
It is charged as an accomplice required two tax offenses allegedly committed by her husband, who will tried for allegedly having appropriated six million euros of public money with his former partner in the Nóos Institute, a non-profit organization linked to the world of sport.
Following the scandal, the Infanta and her husband were removed from the official agenda of the Spanish Royal Family in late 2011, when there was the complaint of former athlete. The so-called “Nóos case” was the biggest hit in the nearly four decades of the reign of Juan Carlos I, who abdicated a year ago in his son.
After the proclamation of Felipe VI as king, Cristina also left to be part of the royal family along with her sister, the Infanta Elena. The new monarchs have saved since the distances to marriage Urdangarin-Bourbon.
Different sectors have asked in recent months that Cristina renounce his dynastic rights, something that has not happened so far. The Infanta, sixth in line to the Spanish throne, has lived since 2013 in Geneva (Switzerland) with Urdangarin and his four children.
Since I was crowned a year ago, Philip VI took aim clean the image of the crown, discredited by the Nóos case and some attitudes of King Juan Carlos I.
Among other things, Philip VI ordered an audit of the accounts of the royal family, he came to new . sectors of Spanish society and attended dozens of meetings and official travel
and achieved a small improvement in the image of the monarchy: 4.34 out of ten in the April survey of state Research Center sociological, compared to 3.72 at the time of the abdication of Juan Carlos I. But still failed to overcome the barrier of the five points above which was the Spanish crown in 2010 and is far from the seven that had mid 1990s may deprive his sister of his knighthood before trial help. .
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