The King Juan Carlos this Monday he moved his intentions to attend the funeral of Isabel II, which will be held next Monday the 19th at Westminster Abbey. His appearance generates great expectation, since it will be the first institutional event he has attended since 2019, when he retired from public life. And since then, a lot has happened.
These years have been marked by his departure to Abu Dhabi in August 2020 after news related to his fortune. He returned to Spain in May of this year. He was at the Sanxenxo regattas, one of his favorite places, and passed through Zarzuela before returning to the Emirates, where he met his son alone and had a family reunion. Dona Sofia She caught Covid-19 just around those days, although Zarzuela confirmed that she did meet her husband at the lunch organized by Casa Real.
The funeral of Isabel II, however, will be the first public act in which the emeritus see each other’s faces. Also in which Don Juan Carlos coincides with Philip VI y Letizia In view of all. The photo of the four (and that of Juan Carlos and Doña Sofía) will be the most persecuted by the Spanish media.
Felipe VI, like the Government, is aware of the controversy. Both parties would have advised the emeritus not to attend the funeral of “cousin Lilibeth” in London, where precisely Don Juan Carlos has an open court case for the harassment claim filed by Corinna Larsen.
Although sources close to the Royal House maintain, in The Spanish, that “between now and Monday there is a long way to go”, the position that Don Juan Carlos maintains at the moment is firm: “If Isabel II’s funeral were tomorrow, Juan Carlos would go. He is hysterical, very angry.” Apparently, he would not have accepted the advice of Zarzuela and the Government of Pedro Sanchez.
Juan Carlos, if he finally travels to England, will do so in a personal capacity and not at the same level as his son, his daughter-in-law and his wife in the official delegation representing the State. According to ok diaryboth Zarzuela and the Government “want to prevent the emeritus from adopting institutional representation and having to sit next to his son in Westminster Abbey”.
The invitation to the funeral
The Embassy of Spain in the United Kingdom received this Sunday the 11th a verbal note from the British Foreign Office in which the invitations to the funeral for Queen Elizabeth II are sent to the diplomatic delegations of Spain, Belgium, Denmark and the Netherlands next Monday the 19th and scheduled side events.
As reported by the King’s House, “the invitations are addressed to the heads of state and former heads of state and wives or husbands of these countries and the crown prince of Denmark”, which is why the call was also extended to the emeritus. Zarzuela stated that it would be a “personal decision” for both of them to attend or not. Shortly after, it transpired that both confirmed their intentions to go.
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