Stormy week for Juan Carlos I. A visit to Sanxenxo that coincided with two cyclones for the former head of state: the photos of the kisses to Bárbara Rey in the Dutch magazine Private taken in 1994 at the actress’s house in Boadilla del Monte (Madrid) and the memoirs of Don Juan Carlos, Reconciliation, the book by the French journalist and friend of the emeritus, Laurence Debray. On this visit to Spain, Don Felipe’s father traveled on a plane owned by his primary dentist, Dr. Eduardo Anitua from Vitoria. A tour that this year has also taken him to Cascais (in Portugal) and of course to Sanxenxo, where the regattas that bear his name have been held. publishes it The Confidential.
The aircraft is a Cessna 560XL worth three million euros, and it has served the king emeritus to cover his trips to Portugal and to the Peinador airport in Vigo with a stop, of course, in Vitoria where he visited his close dentist friend. In Vitoria he also receives treatment antiaging. According to the aforementioned digital publication, Anitua, an intimate of the monarch, leaves him the plane for his friendship without charging him anything in return. As Felipe VI’s father pays taxes in Abu Dhabi, where his tax residence is established, he is not obliged to account for how he covers his expenses when he comes to Spain. Among them, the expenses derived from traveling by plane.
In his week of very high information tension, the emeritus asked to see his granddaughter Leonor, who studies at the Marín Naval Military School, 40 minutes by car from the Sanxenxo Nautical Club, the former monarch’s regatta headquarters. And so it was. It so happened that this meeting, of a private nature, took place because that same Friday the 27th the Kings were in Marín visiting their daughter.
On Sunday the 29th, the Pontevedra estuary regattas closed at the Real Club Náutico de Sanxenxo. Juan Carlos, sitting on a stool during the awards ceremony, received an unexpected surprise from the Galician Sailing Federation, which awarded him the first gold medal for “sportsman, promoter and ambassador of sport throughout the world.”
After the event, the merit left the club cheered and applauded by fans shouting “Long live Spain!” Smiling at these displays of affection, he told the media that his stay in Sanxenxo and his meeting with the Kings and Leonor had gone “very well” and that everything was “great.”