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Francisco de Borbon makes a phone call outside court in Madrid, after being granted bail. Photo: Getty

Just days before Spanish police arrived at his Marbella villa, Francisco de Borbon was celebrating his birthday on a luxury Nile cruise in Egypt with his family, before flying home for dinner with friends at a fashionable Costa del Sol restaurant.

The jet-set aristocrat – who is a distant cousin of the Spanish king – was already preparing for his next trip, to Athens the following week to meet Pavlos, the Crown Prince of Greece.

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