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a b Gilmartin, Eoghan (4 August 2018). "Spain's Former King Has Fled, But His Cronyism Remains". Jacobin. El primer acto oficial del rey Juan Carlos en 4 meses es la inauguración de una exposición en el Palacio Real". www.publico.es. 19 October 2015 . Retrieved 27 August 2023. Miguel González (17 August 2020). "La Casa Real confirma que Juan Carlos I se trasladó el pasado día 3 a Emiratos Árabes Unidos". El País.

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Amid a financial scandal, former Spanish King Juan Carlos I says he is leaving Spain to live in another country". The Washington Post . Retrieved 3 August 2020. Díaz, Javier (16 December 2017). "Juan Carlos y Sofía, en el funeral de estado de Miguel I de Rumanía". vanitatis.elconfidencial.com (in Spanish) . Retrieved 27 August 2023. Ultimately, Franco decided to skip a generation and name Juan de Borbón's son, Prince Juan Carlos, as his personal successor. Franco hoped the young prince could be groomed to take over the nation while still maintaining the ultraconservative and authoritarian nature of his regime. [20] In 1969, Juan Carlos was officially designated heir-apparent and was given the new title of Prince of Spain (not the traditional Prince of Asturias). [20] As a condition of being named heir-apparent, he was required to swear loyalty to Franco's Movimiento Nacional, which he did with little outward hesitation. [23] His choice was ratified by the Spanish parliament on 22 July 1969. [24] Stanley G. Payne& Jesús Palacios (2014). Franco: A Personal and Political Biography. ISBN 978-0-299-30210-8. p.578. Further legitimacy was restored to Juan Carlos's position on 14 May 1977, when his father (whom many monarchists had recognized as the legitimate, exiled King of Spain during the Franco era) formally renounced his claim to the throne and recognized his son as the sole head of the Spanish Royal House, transferring to him the historical heritage of the Spanish monarchy, thus making Juan Carlos both de facto and de jure king in the eyes of the traditional monarchists. [34]

After abdication, Juan Carlos continued to have a role as institutional representative of the Crown. La Corona de España es hereditaria en los sucesores de S. M. Don Juan Carlos I de Borbón, legítimo heredero de la dinastía histórica." In 1957, Juan Carlos spent a year in the naval school at Marín, Pontevedra, and another in the Air Force school in San Javier in Murcia. In 1960–61, he studied law, international political economy and public finance at the University of Madrid. [18] He then went to live in the Palace of Zarzuela and began carrying out official engagements. Juan Carlos Alfonso Víctor María was born to Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona, and Princess María de las Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies in their family home in Rome, where his grandfather King Alfonso XIII of Spain and other members of the Spanish royal family lived in exile following the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic in 1931. He was baptized as Juan Carlos Alfonso Víctor María de Borbón y Borbón-Dos Sicilias by Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, the future Pope Pius XII. Real y distinguida orden de Carlos III", Guía Oficial de España (in Spanish), 1908, p.156 , retrieved 15 December 2019The term XO Brandy, short for “extra old”, refers to a Brandy where the youngest spirit in the blend has been stored for at least six years in cask. Spain's former King Juan Carlos wins partial immunity in ex-lover case". BBC News. 6 December 2022. El Rey Juan Carlos asiste al primer partido del Mundobasket". Europa Press. 30 August 2014 . Retrieved 27 August 2023.

King Carlos abdication: Thousands join anti-monarchy protest". BBC News. 3 June 2014 . Retrieved 10 June 2014. Casey, Nicholas; Bautista, José (26 June 2021). "Humble Waiter or Son of a King? A Royal Mystery Piques Spain". The New York Times. Vol.170, no.59101. p.A4. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 26 June 2021. Wilkinson, Isambard (21 October 2021). "Juan Carlos 'injected with hormones by secret service to slow sex drive' ". The Times. UK . Retrieved 12 April 2023. The rendering of his name as "Juan Carlos" (the first and second particles of his baptismal name) was a modification by choice of Francisco Franco. [10] He was always known in his familiar circle simply as "Juan" or "Juanito". [10] Brother's death [ edit ] Jon Lee Anderson, 'Juan Carlos's Fall From Grace In Spain And The Precarious Future Of The World's Monarchies', The New Yorker: 25 August 2020. https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/juan-carloss-fall-from-grace-in-spain-and-the-precarious-future-of-the-worlds-monarchiesChislett, William (2013). "The Transition to Democracy 1975–1982" (PDF). Spain: What Everyone Needs to Know. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-993646-5. Disposiciones Generales" (PDF) (in Spanish). Boletin Oficial del Estado. 2 June 2005 . Retrieved 8 January 2007. Juan Carlos I desvela en el documental de TVE la última petición que le hizo Franco" (in Spanish). Público. 7 August 2020 . Retrieved 13 February 2021. "Descubrimos que mi hermano era disléxico. Estudiar le costó mucho, era difícil para él. [...]", relata en el documental su hermana Pilar.["We discovered that my brother was dyslexic. Studying costed him dearly, it was hard for him. [...]", his sister Pilar tells in the documentary.] Up until the Botswana elephant trip, Juan Carlos had enjoyed a high level of shielding from media scrutiny, described as "rare among Western leaders". [36] Interfaith work [ edit ] El Rey Don Juan Carlos a Hugo Chávez: "¿Por qué no te callas?" " (in Spanish). Antena 3. 11 November 2007. Archived from the original on 12 November 2007 . Retrieved 11 November 2007. ("King Juan Carlos to Hugo Chávez: 'Why don't you shut up?'")

Spanish prosecutors opened an investigation into the use by Juan Carlos and other members of the royal family of credit cards used between 2016 and 2018 which were paid for by an overseas account to which neither Juan Carlos nor any member of the royal family were signatories, leading to accusations that the funds are undisclosed assets of Juan Carlos, and as the card drawings exceeded €120,000 in one year, comprised undisclosed income and was therefore a tax offence in Spain. [114] Mexican millionaire and investment banker Allen Sanginés-Krause has been named as the owner of the cards, a friend of Juan Carlos to whom he donated sums of money using Air Force Colonel Nicolás Murga Mendoza as an intermediary. [115] Real Decreto 470/2014, de 13 de junio, por el que se modifica el Real Decreto 1368/1987, de 6 de noviembre, sobre régimen de títulos, tratamientos y honores de la Familia Real y de los Regentes". Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish). 19 June 2014. pp.46399–46400. BOE-A-2014-6477. The Spanish press gave the announcement a broadly positive reception, but described the moment as an "institutional crisis" and "a very important moment in the history of democratic Spain". [78] Around Spain and in major cities (including London) the news was met by republican celebration and protests, calling for the end of the monarchy. [79] [80] Newton, Michael (2014). Famous Assassinations in World History: An Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, California, USA: ABC-CLIO. p.73. ISBN 978-1610692861 . Retrieved 20 February 2022.Hadad, Herbert (29 March 1992). "Sephardim Commemorate Their 500-Year Journey of Survival". New York Times.