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Spanish Princess Will Face Fraud Trial

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Lost legal battle to avoid court.

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Spain’s Princess Cristina lost her battle to avoid court on tax-fraud charges and will have to testify in February in a corruption trial with her husband, along with at least a dozen other defendants. The government claims she failed to declare taxes on personal expenses paid by a real-estate company she owned with her Olympian husband, Inaki Urdangarin. The 50-year-old sister of King Felipe VI is facing a maximum sentence of eight years.

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