Spain’s former King Juan Carlos will arrive within the nation Thursday after spending practically two years in exile within the United Arab Emirates, the Royal Family mentioned. Juan Carlos can be visiting household for a short interval between Thursday and Monday, based on the palace assertion.
Carlos to fulfill his son King Felipe VI
Juan Carlos had expressed his “want to go to his household and pals often in Spain” in a “personal” setting, the palace assertion mentioned.
The previous king needs to “facilitate” his son Felipe’s train of duties in gentle of the “public penalties of sure previous occasions of (his) personal life.”
Carlos will head to the northwestern city of Sanxenxo to attend a regatta on Friday.
He’ll then journey to Madrid on Monday to go to his son King Felipe VI, his spouse, Sofia, and different members of his household earlier than leaving the identical day for Abu Dhabi, the place Carlos lives completely.
Carlos abdicates throne in 2014
As soon as revered for skillfully transitioning the nation to a democracy from dictatorship after the loss of life of Spanish Common Francisco Franco in 1975, Carlos’ reign was later tarnished by a sequence of scandals.
Corruption investigations into his daughter’s husband make clear the royal household’s funds, together with his daughter changing into the primary Spanish royal to face trial in 2014. She was accused of committing tax fraud. She was later acquitted, however her husband was sentenced.
In 2012, Carlos drew criticism for spending on a lavish journey to Bostwana when Spaniards have been reeling underneath job cuts and a recession.
In 2014, Carlos abdicated in favor of his son, Prince Felipe.
King Felipe renounced his inheritance and stripped his father of the palace allowance in March 2020 after stories emerged of his father’s involvement in a high-speed rail contract in Saudi Arabia that was granted to a bunch of Spanish firms in 2011.
It additionally emerged that Carlos gave hundreds of thousands from the contract to a Danish businesswoman, Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, with whom he shared an in depth relationship.
Spanish and Swiss prosecutors dropped a sequence of investigations into alleged fraud in March 2022. Carlos has since been seen as a legal responsibility for King Felipe.
rm/sms (Reuters, AFP)