Infanta Elena travels to Abu Dhabi: why King Juan Carlos does not come home for Christmas

With a week to Christmas, the chances that Juan Carlos I Spend these holidays in Spain, they seem to fade away. Days ago, it was said that the former monarch would have conveyed to his son his desire to return to his country at this time, parties that since 2019 he has not enjoyed in his country. In August 2020, the father of Felipe VI He was leaving Spain to go into exile in the United Arab Emirates, not so voluntarily, to keep the Crown away from the alleged crimes of corruption for which he was being investigated.

This past Monday, the infanta elena in an act at the Palace hotel, which he had confirmed weeks before that he would attend, but finally the organization privately justified the absence of Don Juan Carlos’ eldest daughter and Queen Sofia, assuring that the Duchess of Lugo was tired because she had just arrived from a long trip, coming from Abu Dhabi, where he had spent part of the December long weekend, visiting his father.

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This visit, so close to the Christmas festivities, seems to show that the king emeritus will continue to be an expatriate and far from Spain, despite his desire to be with some of his family and friends again. Every time it is rumored that the former head of state could return to Madrid, negative news appears as if by chance about his unexemplary activities that would not advise his presence in Spain due to the bad image they would give the monarchy.

Indeed, the daily The country This Friday published the news that 15 million euros deposited in tax havens went from hand to hand and from bank to bank for years and that its final beneficiary was King Juan Carlos. In that period, the Bourbon was still on the throne, which protected him from any judicial accusation, since he enjoyed absolute immunity.

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This news stains the king’s image once again, argue those in favor of him continuing out of the country, so that “it would not be convenient” for the interests of the monarchical institution to walk around Spain with these new suspicions of having committed another illegality.

The biography of Carlos Herrera is delayed

Nor does it seem that the last biography has finished reaching bookstores, they say that it is authorized, that the journalist and friend of the Emeritus has written and finished Carlos Herrera. Undoubtedly, and no matter how benevolent the version of the history of the previous monarch given by the radio operator, the noise and the promotion of a work of these characteristics would once again give the figure of Juan Carlos I a media dimension that is not exactly the profile low, as it intends to keep a few days before his son, King Felipe VI, will address all Spaniards on Christmas Eve to tell us that it is convenient to get along, that there have been hard times, that we will have to endure a little more, but that we are a strong country that will move forward.