Spain's Supreme Court admitted a paternity suit against Juan Carlos I, then threw it out 7 votes to 3

Juan Carlos I reigned from 1975 until his abdication in June 2014. As king he was inviolable. Two people said he was their parent. Albert Solà, born in Barcelona on 16 August 1956 and given up for adoption, said his biological mother, Anna María Bach Ramon, had a relationship with the young prince. Ingrid Jeanne Sartiau, a Belgian born in 1966, said her mother had a relationship with him until that year. After the abdication Parliament made the Supreme Court the only court that could hear cases against him. In January 2015 its civil chamber admitted Sartiau's suit and rejected Solà's. The prosecutor had opposed both for lack of initial proof. On 11 March 2015 the full chamber voted 7 to 3 to reverse the admission for lack of evidence. No court ever ordered a DNA test of Juan Carlos. Solà's appeal to the Constitutional Court was rejected in 2018. He died of cardiac arrest in a bar in La Bisbal d'Empordà on 8 October 2022. In May 2023 the television programme Focus reported a 2020 test naming another man as his father. On 15 March 2020 King Felipe VI renounced any inheritance from Juan Carlos after reports of a $100 million Saudi gift held through the Lucum foundation. Juan Carlos left for Abu Dhabi on 3 August 2020. Spanish prosecutors closed their inquiries in March 2022. In 2026 he lives in Abu Dhabi and publishes memoirs, and no child outside his marriage is recognised.