US EditionIn New Memoir, Spain's Former King Denies Murdering His Brother
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The former Spanish king, in self-exile in Abu Dhabi for the many scandals, recounts his life in a book of memories
Spain awaited the memoirs of scandal king Juan Carlos with fear and trembling. Now that Reconciliación (Reconciliation) is out, the reactions are undeniable: from "ridiculous" to "another mistake." And that reconciliation, with both his family and his compatriots, is also something he can forget.
In New Memoir, Spain's Former King Denies Murdering His Brother
Written from self-imposed exile in the United Arab Emirates, former King Juan Carlos I’s new memoir reads less like a royal reflection and more like a dispatch from a man haunted by a past he refuses to confront. The book arrives as he continues to live thousands of miles from Spain, a distance created not by choice alone, but by scandal, legal scrutiny, and allegations that have threatened to engulf his legacy.Haunted by assassination of his br…
Following the publication in France of the memoirs of King Juan Carlos I, titled "Reconciliation," many have analyzed some of the most controversial episodes of the monarch's life. Journalist Pilar Eyre, for example, seized the opportunity during her appearance on the program "Mañaneros 360" on La 1, where she revealed three separate instances in which King Juan Carlos allegedly lined his pockets.
Before Juan Carlos I decided to write his memoirs in the first person, applying what many experts have called a "Disney filter" to transform a biography into something akin to science fiction, journalists specializing in the Royal Household, such as Pilar Eyre, had been reporting on the Emeritus King's highs and lows for ages. In fact, many of the things that Felipe VI's father now writes about (or acknowledges) had already been reported by them…
Today King Emeritus, at 87, is visiting Spain, where he aroused curiosity and anger at the memories he collected in a book that can be bought in France but that Spaniards will only be able to read from December 3, when it is published in Spanish. It seems that Juan Carlos de Borbón, the king who was left without kingdom, cannot bear to be talked about in a few days the 50th anniversary of the death of the dictator Francisco Franco and that few r…
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