Juan Carlos I attended the mass at the wedding of the daughter of his friend Abdul Rahman El Assir in Abu Dhabi

It is confirmed that the King Juan Carlos, As we have already gathered, he attended the wedding of John Joseph Franco y Khali El Assir, held in Abu Dhabi this Tuesday. The debate He also announced on Thursday, in a piece of information signed by the journalist Ana Mellado, that the father of Philip VI he attended the mass alone but declined the invitation to join the banquet that was offered afterwards.

???? King Juan Carlos attends the wedding of Juan José Franco and Khali El Assir in Abu Dhabi

???? The wedding was held in the United Arab Emirates, since that is where the bride’s father resides, a Lebanese businessman who is a friend of Don Juan Carlos

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As we have been counting these days, the groom is the son of Francis Franco Martinez Bordiu, Franco’s great-grandson. Her parents are the arms dealer Abdul Rahman El Assir and María Fernández Longoria. The contracting parties had been married in Madrid, in a discreet civil ceremony, as we also told in his day.

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The wedding took place in the United Arab Emirates, the place of residence of the bride’s father and best man. The Lebanese businessman has been a close friend of Don Juan Carlos for forty years. The former monarch and the arms merchant met through mutual friends and their love of hunting brought them together. Abdul Rahman El Assir was married for the first time to Samira Khashoggi, mother of Dodi Al-Fayed, who died together with Lady Di on August 31, 1997.

The spouses, friends since childhood due to the friendship between their respective mothers, got engaged last summer. Juan José Franco, little given to tabloids and soirees, inherited his passion for hunting from his father and in 2004 founded Hunster, a company that organizes hunts in Spain, Africa and Argentina.

Khali works in the real estate market and is a close friend of Tamara Falcó, which is why Isabel Preysler’s daughter could not miss the wedding. They were neighbors in Puerta de Hierro. The bride’s sister, Alia El Assir, married Hugo Linares in the Swiss ski resort of Gstaad in 2016, a three-day bodon and to which the guests attended on several private planes chartered by the family, including Tamara Falcó, his sister and Ana Boyer or Ana Aznar and Alonso Agag.

The wedding was on Tuesday the 8th.

Several media insisted on ‘marrying’ in advance, three weeks ago, the daughter of the arms dealer and friend of King Juan Carlos with a great-grandson of Franco. At Informalia we denied that the event took place then and we already anticipated that the link would take place later. And so it has been: this Monday there was a dinner but it was on Tuesday when the religious wedding took place, although the truth is that the spouses were married civilly, discreetly, some time ago in Madrid.

Among the guests was missing Carmen Martinez Bordiu (aunt of the groom), but yes the King Juan Carloswho attended the mass only, as we have already gathered, a friend of the bride’s father, the arms manufacturer Abdul Rahman El Assir. he was also Tamara Falcoclose friend of the bride, and who already attended her sister’s wedding in 2016 Alia Maria El Assir, in Gstaad. Felipe VI’s father was also invited on that occasion, although he then declined his assistance. This time he had it easier because he has lived there for more than two years. Another thing is that he tried to give little publicity to his presence, since his friend and best man at the wedding, is a persecuted person in Spain, which could be interpreted as another stain on Don Juan Carlos. Abdul Rahman El Assir, of Lebanese origin, has had an arrest warrant and extradition to Spain by Interpol since 2019. Here, the Prosecutor’s Office claims for him eight years in prison and the payment of almost 90 million euros for having defrauded the Treasury. He also has pending accounts in Portugal, France and Switzerland.

The wedding of John Joseph Franco y Khali El Assir It was more discreet than that of Alia (without private planes paid for by the family or three days of holidays or images of the Virgen del Rocío brought directly from Andalusia) although several hotels and recreational centers have been closed on this occasion exclusively for guests. In addition, El Assir has made its entire security team available for the event. Precisely her protection and safety was key and the reason why her daughter’s wedding has been ‘low’ profile compared to her sister’s in 2016, when they paralyzed Gstaad for three days.

The mother of the bride is Spanish Maria Fernandez Longoria. Married since 1985 in Notre Damme (Paris) with Abdul Rahman El AssirThey have three children: Alia, Khali and Adil. They lived in Madrid, in the elite neighborhood of Puerta de Hierro, where they forged a very close friendship with the daughters of Isabel Preysler, with whom they shared school and vacations in Mustique (the island where Ana Boyer and Fernando Verdasco got married). The protagonist of this link, Khali, studied at New York University and has developed her career in the high-end real estate market.

Her husband, Juan José, is the son of Francis Francoeldest grandson of Francisco Franco, and Maria Solves, daughter of the Marquises of Tamarit, separated since 1990 after nine years of marriage. Juan José moves in Madrid’s high society and is founder of hunstera company that organizes hunts in Spain, Africa and Argentina.