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Aug 3, 2020 · Spain's former King Juan Carlos has left the country for an unknown destination, weeks after he was linked to an inquiry into alleged corruption. Juan Carlos, 82, announced the move on Monday in a ...
Aug 3, 2021 · A year on, the man they call King Emeritus remains thousands of miles from the country he once helped bring to democracy. But the dramatic story of Juan Carlos continues to dominate Spain.
Jun 2, 2014 · Juan Carlos played a pivotal role in Spain's transition to democracy after General Francisco Franco's death in 1975. But his popularity and his health declined in the final years of his reign, and ...
Aug 19, 2020 · BBC News. In early August, Spain's former King Juan Carlos left the country following allegations of financial wrongdoing. But the country's affection for its monarch began to unravel as far back ...
May 19, 2022 · Juan Carlos came to the throne in 1975, only two days after the death of the dictator Francisco Franco, and he was a key figure in Spain’s transition to democracy, facing down an attempted ...
Aug 19, 2020 · King Juan Carlos had been largely untouchable because of his place in Spain's tortured, bloody history. As head of state after Francisco Franco's death in 1975, the king had overseen Spain's ...
May 21, 2018 · Juan Carlos I (born 1938), proclaimed king of Spain on November 22, 1975, played an instrumental role in the transformation of his nation from a dictatorship to a constitutional monarchy. Juan Carlos Víctor María de Borbón y Borbón was born in the Anglo-American Hospital in Rome, Italy, on January 5, 1938.
