Spies ‘used Diana demise’ to scare Spanish king’s ex-lover

THE former king of Spain’s ex-lover has claimed agents broke into her home and left a book about Princess Diana’s death as part of a campaign designed to intimidate her, a court has heard.

Corinna zu Sayn-wittgenstein-sayn said Spanish “intruders” entered her apartment in Switzerland in 2012 and left the book focusing on the alleged “involvement of the British and US intelligence agencies” in the death of the former Princess of Wales.

She also claimed that shortly after finding the book, she received a “followup telephone call” from an “unknown person” who made an “allusion” to the manner in which the princess died, a barrister representing Juan Carlos said.

“There are many tunnels between Monaco and Nice”, the person is alleged to have said in Spanish.

The 57-year-old is seeking damages for personal injury and “great mental pain” allegedly caused by Juan Carlos’s harassment after they split up. Juan Carlos, 84, who abdicated in 2014 after a series of financial scandals, now lives in exile in Abu Dhabi. He denies any wrongdoing and has begun an appeal bid after losing a High Court battle for the Danish businesswoman’s case to be thrown out of court.

Barrister Timothy Otty KC told the judges that Juan Carlos considered Ms

‘Juan Carlos emphatically denies that he engaged in or directed any harassment towards this woman’

zu Sayn-wittgenstein-sayn’s legal action to be “vexatious”.

“He emphatically denies that he engaged in, or directed, any harassment towards Ms zu Sayn-wittgenstein-sayn and he rejects her allegations to the contrary as untrue.”

A ruling is expected later this year.