Son of King Juan Carlos's former mistress 'makes astonishing claim that she made him watch the couple have sex when he was 13 so he could secretly photograph them in blackmail plot'

A Spanish man has claimed that his mother made him watch and photograph her having activity pinch Spain's King Juan Carlos to leverage millions of pounds from nan country's royal family erstwhile he was conscionable 13, according to reports. 

Angel Cristo, a photographer, alleges that his mother, character and TV host Barbara Rey, pestered him to transportation retired nan blackmail crippled successful 1994 that was covered up by Spain's information services.

By Cristo's relationship Rey invited nan King, past still joined to his woman Queen Sofia, to her family location connected a sunny afternoon, wherever she cooked him paella, swam pinch him successful her excavation and yet seduced him, 20 years aft they had begun a romance together. 

Photographs, seen by MailOnline, show Rey and now-86-year-old Juan Carlos, who abdicated nan throne 10 years ago, kissing and hugging connected her terrace, and besides show Rey pouring nan King wine, earlier going inside. 

He told nan Telegraph: 'I was only 13, but I was bully pinch a camera. My mother said "what a pity you’re excessively young to thief maine pinch this. You couldn’t, though, could you"?'

'She went connected and connected until I said ‘yes, I´ll do it’. She manipulated me', Cristo said, adding that he believed this constituted abuse. 

Cristo was hidden successful his neighbour's spot pinch a statement of show to nan affair, and captured it connected his Canon EOS 700 camera. Rey had besides hidden a concealed video camera, and filmed nan affair. 

Cristo said he past edited copies of this clip for his mother.  

The photographer said while he knew what he was doing was wrong, he wanted to thief his mother's dire financial situation. 

She is alleged to person manipulated Spain's concealed work into giving her astir £3million. 

The money was paid successful a bid of installments, pinch nan first being delivered by concealed work agents successful a sports bag. 

The authorities past agreed to salary her £250,000 a twelvemonth for a decade.  

Though she was meant to destruct each copies of nan photos and videos, she kept immoderate hidden distant successful a safe beneath her father’s armchair successful Totana, her hometown, and successful a slope deposit container successful Luxembourg.

Angel past took these and sold immoderate of them to a Dutch mag for 'a very humble sum' past month. 

Leaks of a taped telephone speech betwixt Rey and Carlos revealed that nan King had confided successful her connected individual matters, including nan authorities of his matrimony to Queen Sofia. 

Carlos explained during a telephone telephone successful nan mid-1990s: 'We person nary family life. 

'Between you and me, and being selfish, it’s very comfortable for maine because nan Queen performs her occupation to perfection. And connected apical of that, she puts up pinch nan business and doesn’t tally disconnected pinch different man', he added. 

A abstracted telephone telephone pinch a friend revealed that Rey was pinch him for 'four-and-a-bit years earlier getting married. And again aft separating successful 1989. 

Rey added: 'We ever had a telephone relationship, and we met connected nan overseas juncture while I was married.'

Despite this, she has ne'er publically spoken astir her matter pinch nan King, though has said respective times she had a dalliance pinch a 'high charismatic of nan state.'

Her boy said that she utilized her anterior narration pinch nan King to get her life backmost connected track, pursuing a messy divorcement pinch her husband, Angel's father.

Angel besides alleged that his mother tasked him pinch taking photos of her having activity pinch Frank Frances, a later fellow of his mothers, successful bid to waste them to Spanish newspapers. 

'It’s unusual to watch your mother pinch a man,' he said. 

Since nan matter was revealed, Spain's media world has admitted that it knew astir it, but refused to people thing successful lawsuit it offended nan royal family. 

At nan time, Spain had only been a populist for 20 years, and Juan Carlos was seen arsenic nan look of modern Spain, a acold outcry from nan fascist dicatorship of Francisco Franco. 

Lucia Mendez, a journalist from nan newspaper El Mundo, told nan Telegraph: 'At that clip we were astatine nan highest of self-esteem astir nan changes made complete nan erstwhile 20 years, and nan typical who embodied our newfound position was nan king. 

'There was a statement among nan elites, nan politicians and journalists to fto nan king do what he wanted. But moreover now it is shocking to perceive him discussing matters of authorities pinch a female for illustration Barbara Rey. Any personification who behaves for illustration this is intelligibly a threat to his ain system.' 

But since then, Juan Carlos has been embroiled successful a bid of scandals. 

He abdicated nan throne successful 2014, aft financial scandals and rumours of his infidelity proved excessively overmuch for him, and he moved to Dubai. 

He was stripped of his €200,000-a-year stipend from nan Royal Family aft different financial scandal. 

Rey, Juan Carlos and Spain's royal family each declined to remark to nan Telegraph.