A WAITER who claimed he was the illegitimate son of Spain's former king has mysteriously dropped dead in a bar.
Albert Sola, 66, collapsed after ordering a glass of wine at Pa i Trago in the town of La Bisbal d’Emporda, near the Catalan city of Girona.
He had gone to meet a friend at the boozer on Saturday after finishing work when he suddenly passed away in his hometown.
The dad-of-two, who became known by punters as "the little king", was pronounced dead at the scene at around 10pm.
A horrified woman who witnessed his passing told Spanish press Albert was walking to a table when "he keeled over".
"He didn’t even have time to try the wine," she said.
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Police sources have suggested the waiter died of natural causes, but the results of his post-mortem have not yet been publicised.
Albert long proclaimed that he was the secret son of ex-head of state King Juan Carlos I, who is rumored to have had hundreds of affairs.
The former monarch – who controversially secured a seat at Queen Elizabeth’s funeral last month – was dubbed a sex addict in an explosive 2016 book titled 'The King of 5,000 lovers'.
The disgraced ex-ruler is alleged to have fathered a string of children after bedding countless women throughout his reign.
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Albert believed he was shipped off to Ibiza away from the limelight after being orphaned as a child and later adopted.
But he claimed his life was littered with extraordinary gifts and experiences, suggesting he was being subsidised by a wealthy relative.
After reaching adulthood, Albert looked into his adoption records and says he was told by a director it was the "most complex adoption in the history of this centre."
He alleged that diplomats in Mexico also told him he belonged to a "powerful family", spurring his quest for answers.
The waiter believed his birth mum had met Juan Carlos when he visited Barcelona in the 1950s from a military academy in Zaragoza where he was studying at the time.
Albert told The Irish Times: "It's quite simple: I am the son of the king."
The dad-of-two later joined forces with a Belgian housewife, Ingrid Sartiau, who also claimed her dad was Juan Carlos.
Albert used DNA tests showing a 99 per match with the 84-year-old to fight for official recognition of their blood link.
It's quite simple: I am the son of the king.
However, Spain’s Supreme Court refused to admit his paternity lawsuit in 2015 after ruling the tests invalid.
His appeal to the country’s Constitutional Court also failed, leaving a desperate Albert to send pleading letters to the royal residence.
But his correspondence to the disgraced former King, now based in Abu Dhabi after being implicated in a string of corruption scandals, went unanswered.
Albert was contacted online by his alleged half-sister Ingrid, 56, in hopes of aiding their mission of unmasking their father.
She claimed her mum revealed details of a "one-night stand" in Luxembourg with the disgraced former King in 1966.
The 56-year-old said her mum told her "that man’s your father" when his face flashed up on TV, prompting her to try and connect with Juan Carlos.
But her paternity lawsuit was also thrown out by Spain’s Supreme Court, although she continues to insist the ex-ruler is her father.
Just last year, Spain's most infamous police chief claimed Juan Carlos – who abdicated in 2014 after nearly 40 years on the throne – was injected with female hormones to control his rampant sex drive.
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Ex-police commissioner José Manuel Villarejo, who was on trial for blackmail and corruption, said the disgraced former head of state was given the drugs by the Spanish secret service to "lower his libido".
The 70-year-old alleged that it became a "problem for the state that he was such an ardently passionate person".
Spanish society writer Amadeo Martinez Ingles suggested Juan Carlos engaged in hundreds of relationships even after marrying Queen Sofia.
In his shocking book titled, 'Juan Carlos: The King of 5,000 lovers', he claimed the lustful monarch had 62 lovers in just six months.
During his "passionate period" between 1976 and 1994, Martinez Ingles said the ex-king had slept with a staggering 2,154 women.
Spanish royal family expert Pilar Eyre has previously said Juan Carlos made a "tactile" advance to Princess Diana when she was just 25.
Diana herself denied anything untoward had happened but admitted that while the libidinous king was "charming" he could be a "little too attentive."
Juan Carlos left Spain for Abu Dhabi more than two years ago after Swiss prosecutors opened an investigation into bank accounts he allegedly held in tax havens.
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He accepted a private invitation to attend Queen Elizabeth’s funeral with his wife Queen Sofia, leading to criticism by Spanish left-wing politicians.
His son and Felipe VI’s former journalist wife Queen Letizia attended the September 19 funeral on an official basis.
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