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King Felipe VI's former brother-in-law Iñaki Urdangarin will publish his memoirs on February 12th under the title 'Everything Lived', in which he recalls his nearly four-year stay in prison after being convicted of corruption, which at the time was a scandal for the Spanish royal family.
According to the Grijalbo publishing house, which will publish this book, as reported this Thursday, it is "a first-person account of the success, fall, and personal reconstruction" of Urdangarin, who separated from Felipe VI's sister Cristina de Borbón in January 2022 after almost 25 years of marriage.
In the book, he also reviews his childhood, his sporting career (before his wedding he was a professional handball player) and his arrival in the royal family after his marriage to Infanta Cristina, but also his "path of personal reinvention" after his time in prison.
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After years in which his life has been narrated "by others", Urdangarín assures that he now wants to tell his story with his "own" voice: "Not to justify myself, nor to seek compassion, nor to gloss over mistakes. On the contrary: I am writing this book because I need to face everything I have lived - the peaks, but also the valleys - and share it honestly." The then-brother-in-law of the king was sentenced to six years and three months in prison for a corruption case related to the embezzlement of public funds, although the Spanish Supreme Court later reduced his sentence by five months. This case caused a major crisis in the Spanish monarchy due to the outrage in public opinion over the criminal activities of the son-in-law of the then king, Juan Carlos I, who was also involved in his own scandals and ended up abdicating in favor of his son in June 2014, in what is considered the most difficult time that the royal family has gone through in recent decades. Urdangarin entered prison in June 2018 and in March 2022 obtained parole, a few months after his separation from Cristina de Borbón, to whom King Felipe VI withdrew his noble title in 2015 due to her alleged involvement in her husband's corruption plot, although she was eventually acquitted during the trial. Urdangarin's memoirs will go on sale two months after King Juan Carlos I, father of Felipe VI, has also published his memoirs, under the title 'Reconciliation', in which he admits his "extramarital affairs". Juan Carlos I has been living in Abu Dhabi since 2020, following the scandal that arose when his relationship with the German Corinna Larsen became known and, in addition, that he had part of his assets abroad.
