Princess A Suspect: Spain's Princess Cristina Suspected In Corruption Case

Spain's Princess Cristina is suspected to be involved in a corruption case involving public money. Princess Cristina, 47, daughter of King Juan Carlos of Spain, is said to be the first person of nobility in the country to receive a court summons.

A court in Mallorca, Spain, accused Princess Cristina and her husband Inaki Urdangarin, the Duke of Palma, of giving government money allotted for sporting events and tourism to one of the Duke's private organizations.

Princess Cristina, seventh in the line of Spanish royal succession, was named a suspect in the case that began as an investigation involving her husband, Urdangarin, who was charged with using public funds to support the Noos Institute, which also deals with sporting events though on a nonprofit level. The Noos Institute funds such activities in the Balearic Islands and in Valencia, Spain. Urdangarin allegedly moved over 3.2 million Euros of government funds into the Noos Institute and to the Duke's other private organizations.

Princess Cristina, prior to the investigation into the corruption case, was a director at La Caixa, another nonprofit, in Barcelona, Spain. Princess Cristina's summons said that she will be required to attend questioning at Palma de Mallorca, Spain on April 27.

Though a Spanish native, Princess Cristina studied international relations at New York University and later worked at UNESCO in Paris, France. She is also well known as being a member of the Spanish sailing team at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, Korea. She has been married to Urdangarin since 1997.

Princess Cristina's level of alleged involvement in the corruption scandal is not known yet as up to this point Urdangarin was one of the major figures suspected and investigated in the case. The royal family declined to comment on the ongoing investigation.