US EditionJuan Carlos I, to Milans Del Bosch in the Early Morning After 23-F: "Any Blow Cannot Be Shielded From the King, It Is Against the King"
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The King’s action upset the subversive military, which considered it a “objective to beat.” After the coup, the first institutional campaign to protect the monarch began, which lasted far beyond the noise of sabers.
The head of state heard the shots live from the radio when he was going to shower after a tennis game, spoke to Milans del Bosh on four occasions to stop him from drinking.
One of the documents about the coup d'état of February 23, 1981, which the government has declassified this Wednesday, reflects the conversation that King Emeritus Juan Carlos I had with Lieutenant General Jaime Milans del Bosch in the early morning of the 24th, at 1.20 p.m., minutes after TVE issued the king's message against the coup. In that telephone conversation, the king transferred to the military that "any coup d'état" could not "shield …
Spain's government has so far published secret documents relating to the attempted overthrow of 23 February 1981, so the coupists considered it a serious mistake not to have fixed the then King Juan Carlos.
The documents of the attempted coup d’état of 23-F declassified by the government are already available on the La Moncloa Palace website. There are 153 documents in total, including conversations held by Antonio Tejero since Congress, and CESID’s annotations in the days prior to his entry into Congress. [...]
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Noticias de Navarra“After this message I can no longer turn back,” King Juan Carlos I transferred to General Milans del Bosch after the broadcast on TVE of his message against the coup d’état, at 1.12 a.m. on February 24, 1981. He also communicated his “strong decision to maintain the constitutional order within the current legality”, according to a document of the CNI on the coup d’etat of 23-F declassified yesterday by the Ministry of Defense and entitled “Repor…
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