The days, the months and the years pass without the King Juan Carlos can return to Spain, as is his wish. Friends who visit him in Abu Dhabi say that the emeritus “does not talk about anything other than his country”, that everything during his stay there revolves around Spain, from conversations, memories, or the “food with ham and wine Spanish people”. And they even say that a Spanish olive tree has been planted in the garden of the mansion in the capital of the Emirates, where the former monarch lives.
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“He is very lonely, he feels very lonely,” says a person close to him who has been with the expatriate king in the capital of the United Arab Emirates.
Perhaps that is why some relatives who had not yet been to see him since his departure, more than two years ago, have recently spent a few days with him. It is about his younger sister, the Infanta Margaritawho was accompanied by her husband, the Doctor Carlos Zuritahis daughter Maria Zurita y Charlie Brownthe first and only grandson of the Dukes of Soria.
A very important visit for the former head of state, who is very fond of his sister Margarita, blind from birth and whom he has always protected. The Duchess of Soria is 82 years old and always travels in a wheelchair. This trip was not too easy for her, but she wanted to fly to Abu Dhabi to encourage her brother.
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On the other hand, Don Juan Carlos and the Queen Sofia They have always been very close to their niece María Zurita and supported her when she decided to become a single mother through assisted reproduction.
The baptism of Carlitos, held in 2018, in the hermitage of the Puerta de Hierro Club, with a subsequent cocktail party in a part of the premises, was attended by Don Juan Carlos, who wanted to be the godfather of honor of the child, whom the whole family knows as “Super Carlitos”.