Juan Carlos I, a campechano from Abu Dhabi: “Thank you for congratulating me on my 85 tacos”

The king Juan Carlos I He has turned 85 this Thursday away from his homeland, Spain, for the third consecutive year. She had no horizon to return from Abu Dhabi, where she “exiled” after the numerous scandals over commissions collected, tax fraud, accounts in tax havens and million-dollar donations to “close friends” such as Corinna Larsenthe father of King Felipe VI He has received congratulations on his birthday from relatives, such as his most fan granddaughter, Victoria Federica, and the media to which he has answered the phone with a folksy “thank you very much for congratulating me on my 85 tacos.” Everything seems to indicate that it is not easy for him to return to our country without being scandalized by his presence.

This 2023 is going to be a key year for the Spanish Crown, as they say in The Spanishthe digital that has managed to communicate by WhasApp with the king emeritus for his birthday, and to which he has answered.

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According to the publication, his has been one of the hundreds of messages and calls for Christmas greetings, and although it seems that he does not have time to answer all of them, he has responded to some of the media and wished them a “happy new year 2023”.




In almost three years in Arab lands, the emeritus has faced the emergence of data and details about “certain past events” of his “private life”, as little reprehensible, that the Government did not look good at all, so According to the publication, Juan Carlos may have felt “forsaken” by the Executive.

In addition, he is separated from his country, distanced from his son Felipe VI, but not from his daughters, who have traveled to Arbia to be with him on such an important date. Among them (divorce of Cristina), some grandchildren (froilan and her escapades, Victoria Federica and her public exposure), and hers, there is no way to recover the lost respectability. Added to these challenges are complaints and shows from Corinna about her relationship with him and the heiress’ 18 years. No, he does not have a comfortable old age, no matter how many hammocks he uses in Abu Dhabi.




The ceremony that the general election can deny you

This year her granddaughter turns 18, Leonor, the first in the line of succession to the throne, and as of October 31, 2023, the young woman must swear the Constitution jointly before Congress and the Senate, which will officially make her heir to the Crown. It will be an institutional act that must be very hard to miss when you have been king and you are the girl’s grandfather.

But it is not clear that the campechano can present himself without further ado, due to which the electoral calendar can make things difficult, even though we are still 10 months away. The Government tries to square the date of the princess’s birthday with the electoral call for the beginning of December, and that the young heiress is not on her birthday with the Cortes dissolved.




The 45th anniversary of the Constitution should also be celebrated on December 6, but again, the state is tight on dates due to electoral issues. It was precisely during the celebration of the 40th anniversary the last occasion in which the emeritus stepped foot in the Spanish Cortes.

A long year later, the Government tried to cut out the image of Juan Carlos I from the global photo of the homeland monarchy so as not to contaminate it. And from those muds come all the mud that the king’s father will have to deal with in the year that we have just started.