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<p>A waiter who spent years trying to prove he was the love child of <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/will-former-king-juan-carlos-scandals-sink-the-spanish-royal-family">Juan Carlos, the former king of Spain</a>, died suddenly at the Pa i Trago bar in La Bisbal, Spain, as he was about to take a sip of red wine, Spanish media reports. </p>
<p>Before his death, Sola insisted that he had DNA tests that proved he was a 99 percent match with <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-crazy-private-life-of-juan-carlos-spains-royal-horndog">Juan Carlos</a>, the former king <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/juan-carlos-i-former-king-of-spain-goes-into-exile-amid-allegations-of-tax-evasion-and-affairs">who abdicated power in 2014</a> after breaking his hip while on an African safari with a lover. </p>
<p>The former king later became embroiled in twin tax scandals in Spain and Switzerland involving a check for $100 million from the former king of Saudi Arabia, that have made it a convenient choice to live in Abu Dhabi to avoid Spanish and Swiss authorities. </p>
<p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/waiter-who-claimed-to-be-king-of-spain-juan-carlos-love-child-dies-suddenly-in-bar?source=articles&via=rss">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->
A waiter who spent years trying to prove he was the love child of Juan Carlos, the former king of Spain, died suddenly at the Pa i Trago bar in La Bisbal, Spain, as he was about to take a sip of red wine, Spanish media reports.
Before his death, Sola insisted that he had DNA tests that proved he was a 99 percent match with Juan Carlos, the former king who abdicated power in 2014 after breaking his hip while on an African safari with a lover.
The former king later became embroiled in twin tax scandals in Spain and Switzerland involving a check for $100 million from the former king of Saudi Arabia, that have made it a convenient choice to live in Abu Dhabi to avoid Spanish and Swiss authorities.
