Infanta Cristina, Duchess of Palma de Mallorca
HM King Juan Carlos HM Queen Sophia
- HRH Felipe, Prince of Asturias HRH Letizia, Princess of Asturias HRH Infanta Leonor
- HRH Infanta Sofía
- SE Don Felipe
- Doña Victoria Federica IE
- SE Don Juan Valentín
- SE Don Pablo Nicolás
- SE Don Miguel
- IE Doña Irene
HRH Infanta María del Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz HRH Infanta Margarita, Duchess of Soria
( Called Christina of Spain) Cristina Federica Victoria Antonia de Borbón y Grecia, Infanta of Spain, Duchess of Palma de Mallorca ( born June 13, 1965 in Madrid), is the second daughter of King Juan Carlos I of Spain and Sophia of Greece.
Childhood and education
Cristina has two siblings, Infanta Elena of Spain and Crown Prince Felipe of Spain. She was baptized by the Archbishop of Madrid in the Palacio de la Zarzuela. Your godparents were Alfonso Jaime de Borbon and Infanta Maria Cristina of Spain. Their higher education received Cristina at the Santa María del Camino School. In 1984 she started at the Complutense University of Madrid a degree in political science, she successfully graduated in 1989. This made her the first woman in the Spanish royal family with a completed university studies.
In 1990 she completed a Masters degree in International Relations at New York University. Then she did an internship at UNESCO in Paris. She speaks Catalan, English, French, Greek and Spanish.
Marriage and children
On October 4, 1997 Cristina Iñaki Urdangarin married the Spaniard, a former handball player from FC Barcelona, in Barcelona. The couple has four children, all born in Barcelona:
- Juan Valentín de Todos los Santos Urdangarin y de Borbón (born 29 September 1999)
- Pablo Nicolás Sebastian Urdangarin y de Borbón (born 6 December 2000)
- Miguel de Todos los Santos Urdangarin y de Borbón (born 30 April 2002)
- Irene Urdangarin y de Borbón (born 5 June 2005).
With her family, she lives in Barcelona.
Official tasks used
The Infanta supports a number of charitable organizations in Spain, Europe and Latin America. She is president of the International Foundation for disabled sailors. Since 2001, she is like her parents a member of the Bilderberg conference. She is a member of the Board of Dali Foundation.
Cristina is also Honorary President of the Spanish Commission of UNESCO. Here she primarily manages educational projects which have the protection of nature and culture to the target. In October 2001, she was appointed UN goodwill ambassador to the United Nations.
Interests
The Infanta is considered very athletic, she sails very much and also skiing. She participated in several competitions in part in sailing. In 1988 she was a member of the Spanish Olympic team in sailing at the Olympic Games in Seoul. At the opening ceremony, she wore the flag of the Spanish team, four years later in Barcelona in 1992 her brother Felipe was given this honor.
Succession
In the Spanish throne Cristina is the seventh. On the places 8-11 are their children. From the British throne is like the whole of the Spanish royal family ruled out because it is Catholic.
Corruption scandal
In the course of the investigation against her husband Iñaki Urdangarin on suspicion of embezzlement, corruption, money laundering, forgery, tax fraud and social security fraud since 2006, Christina received a court summons for April 27, 2013, but which was first exposed again. Urdangarin has been accused over the ostensibly charitable foundation Noos embezzling public funds in the millions. Cristina had co-signed as a board member of Noos many documents. There was evidence that Cristina knew that her husband used her name and status for business. A notary declared their function on the board of Noos: You had been " a shield against the tax office ." Through a network of accounts in Switzerland and front companies that built Urdangarin to conceal the cash outflows, he channeled the funds to then for private spending to make use of. Cristina was renamed in some of the reared by Urdangarin and his business partner Diego Torres bogus companies as a shareholder and a member of the Supervisory Board. This included the front company Aizoon that they jointly founded and held shares of 50 percent, over this paid Cristina as luxury parties, safaris in South Africa and for the renovation of luxury family villa in Barcelona.
Only in a second attempt made it to the investigating magistrate José Castro from Palma de Mallorca to accuse Cristina. On February 8, 2014 Finally, she had to face the questions before the Court. For the first time in the history of the monarchy a direct member of the royal family had been invited to testify in court. Here, Cristina could not hope to obtain immunity because, according to the Spanish Constitution, the descendants of the monarch are actually equated with ordinary citizens. For this, she practiced for several days with their lawyers cross-examination. Just two weeks after the interrogation of Cristina the transcript became public, the 400 questions received the investigating judge " to 95 percent of excuses ."
The scandal Cristina husband Urdangarín and the proceedings against them and the elephant hunt affair amid the financial crisis of 2012 and the amorous adventures of the aging king with the German Corinna Sayn- Wittgenstein, the already ailing reputation of the monarchy damaged considerably. How much, took the censorship scandal from the university city of Salamanca in Castile and León. There works should be shown denounce corruption. Two of them were oil paintings of Ausín Sáinz in the style of old portraits of rulers: a portrait was the Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, who was involved in a black money affair, and dedicated a portrait of the Infanta Cristina - instead of a crown, the artist painted them a pile of excrement on her head.
The corruption scandal involving the royal family and the ruling Popular Party Popular Party helped that the country Spain on the global corruption index of Transparency International slipped ten places to rank 40.