Madrid - Two Spanish courts have rejected demands that King Juan Carlos take a paternity test to prove that he is the father of two extramarital children, according to two rulings seen by AFP.
The courts said that under article 56 of the constitution the monarch cannot be held accountable.
Alberto Sola Jimenez from Spain's northeastern Catalonia region and Belgian national Ingrid Jeanne Satiau claim they are the king's son and daughter and had taken their case to the two Madrid courts which dismissed their cases on October 9.
According to the court documents their lawyer Begona Antonio Gonzalez argued that Jimenez was “Don Juan Carlos Alfonso Victor Maria de Bourbon's son by blood”.
Conservative newspaper El Mundo reported that Sola and Satiau filed their request of a paternity test after DNA tests showed that they were brother and sister with a 91-percent likelihood.
“This man is your father,” Satiau's mother reportedly once told her daughter when she saw the monarch on television.
Sola, an adopted child, has claimed for years that he is the child the king fathered when he had an affair with his mother, the daughter of a well-known Barcelona banker, according to press reports.
He and Satiau met after the Belgian woman contacted him. - Sapa-AFP