It was Corinna Larsen, a Monaco-based business consultant known for her relationship with Spainâs former monarch Juan Carlos I, who first talked in public about marriage. In statements to the BBC in August of last year, she asserted that her father told her in 2009 that Juan Carlos had asked him for her hand. âHe called me up and said the king had come to see him and told him he was very much in love with me, and intended to marry me,â she said in that interview. âHe also told my father he couldnât do it straight away, it might take some time. He wanted my father to know he was very serious about me.â