Juan Carlos I obeys Zarzuela: he will avoid returning to Spain until after the May elections

We anticipated on March 10 that the King Juan Carlos He wants to sail but to take off his overalls he would compete on British soil, in some regattas, at the end of the summer. It has later been speculated in various media that the father of Felipe VI would return to Spain and specifically to Sanxenxo, where he took a mass bath almost a year ago and which was a headache.

Such was the tsunami caused by the presence of the Monarch’s father on his Galician tour that Zarzuela called him to chapter and, before starting his return to his voluntary exile in Abu Dhabi, his own son had him several hours in the palace to explain to him that his conduct It was not the one that best suited the Crown at that time, despite the fact that the previous head of state has been exonerated in all the proceedings opened against him, either by prescription of some of his alleged crimes, because he was inviolable when he committed them or because he regularized every last euro that the Treasury asked for. After the meeting, which was described as tense by some media, Don Juan Carlos was not allowed to sleep in what was his house, and he returned to the Persian Gulf on a night flight.

In recent months there have been several reunions between father and son, and if Don Juan Carlos finally attends the coronation of Carlos III, we would see them together for the fourth time. The first, as we mentioned, was precisely the one that occurred in May 2022, when the emeritus passed through Madrid after his Galician tour, three years after Don Juan Carlos settled outside of Spain.

The second meeting of the current Monarch and his father took place at the funeral for the queen Isabel II in September, in London; and the most recent, at the funeral of Constantine of Greece, Doña Sofía’s brother, this January in Athens.

The successor of Isabel II expect them to attend Felipe VI y Joybut also, as we have already advanced, it has the presence of the Emeritus and his wife Sofía de Grecia, closely related to the Windsor. Therefore, it is likely that on May 6 in London we will see Don Juan Carlos and his family at the coronation of Charles III, ceremony to which all European Royal Houses are invited.

Although it is insisted that the Spanish government does not want Juan Carlos to return to Spain to stay and demands his public pardon for a more lasting return, formally nothing can prevent the Emeritus from traveling to London and accepting the invitation of the British monarch. Don Juan Carlos cannot be prohibited from returning to his country either. But the elections on May 28 make it advisable that you do not repeat a visit like last year. For this reason, Zarzuela, in agreement with the Government, has told the former monarch that a visit to Spain on the eve of the elections is not convenient and has suggested that he use the Bribón outside Spanish lands or on later dates. And above all they have asked him not to be his trips media processions that they open the newscasts and take him to the front pages of the newspapers. However, on the table, the Executive’s position has changed. They no longer demand public apologies from her Majesty to allow her to return. The Minister of the Presidency, Felix Bolanos, He recalled days ago that the Emeritus “has no open criminal or judicial case. Therefore, of course he could return.”

These recommendations of Philip VI They dismantle the speculations around a return of Don Juan Carlos to Spain in May and coincide with the news that we announced days ago: that the Emeritus will travel to England not only for the coronation of Carlos III but to compete for months, from August 31 to September 8, in the regattas that will be held in the port town of Cowes, on the Isle of Wight, south of Southampton.

In fact, as we already counted, we have verified that The Rascal, 6-meter sailboat with which he competes Don Juan Carlos is enrolled. Sources from the ship’s crew confirmed it to Informalia, and they added that the Emeritus could attend: “It would not be strange if the skipper took the helm,” they told us. We already announced for the first time on February 21 that he was not expected at the Sanxenxo regattas this March but also that he has made his sailing suit: “His uniform will be here waiting for him, although seeing him thinner than a year ago We have asked for his new measurements and it turns out that he has dropped a size”, they told us from Galicia.

was his own Juan Carlos I who declared in Paris, when he accompanied Mario Vargas Llosa on his admission to the French Academy, would travel to Spain soon, although he did not say it would be in May. It is also true that the previous monarch communicated to his son through a letter, his intention to “continue residing permanently and stably in Abu Dhabi”, but with the intention of traveling “frequently” to Spain. But in May he will not appear for a year, at least in a visible way, and that has been as close as in Paris or Athens. Don Juan Carlos declined to attend the wedding of Carlos Sainz’s daughter on February 11, in Cebreros (Ávila), to which he was invited.