The Foreign Office British went to the Embassy of Spain in London to summon Felipe VI and Doña Letizia to the funeral of Isabel II, to be held next Monday 19 at Westminster Abbey. On the same note, the invitation was extended to Don Juan Carlos, as former head of state, and to his wife, Queen Sofía.
Sources consulted by Informalia They assure that both the Government and the House of the King knew in advance that the Emeritus would be summoned and it was decided that the decision to attend would be made personally by the father of the current Monarch, as has been communicated. It was said that the presence of the King Emeritus there would be uncomfortable for the Government and for Zarzuela, but the reality is that his absence would be worse and much more unusual. We explain it.
Given that the official representation of Spain will be headed by Don Felipe, accompanied by his wife and Pedro Sánchez, the protocol determines that Don Juan Carlos will be distanced from his son, although together with Doña Sofía. That means that it is unlikely that we will see the photograph of Felipe VI next to the abdicated king, who lives in Abu Dhabi. It is evident that the current head of state is not comfortable with the dissemination of images with his father. He doesn’t seem to like the government either. Peter Sanchez. When Juan Carlos I He was in Spain, he passed through Zarzuela after his tour of Galicia, and he was in the palace eating with his family. It was learned that she had spoken with Felipe, with whom he spent several hours alone, but no photograph was released.
We have not seen Don Juan Carlos with his son since January 2020, when they coincided at the funeral of the Infanta Pilar. Another undesirable image for the image of the Crown is the one that could be obtained from Corinna Larsen if she had the opportunity to access Westminster, which seems unlikely, although the ex-lover of the former monarch is an expert in sneaking into impossible places with companies and high-ranking personalities. And let’s not forget that her tentacles and her personal relationships reach very high. It goes without saying that Corina Larsen has an open civil claim against Juan Carlos that is settled very close to the abbey that hosts the funeral of Elizabeth II, in the British capital.
However, there are many reasons for Don Juan Carlos to be at the funeral for his distant cousin, Elizabeth II. Alfonso XIII, grandfather of Don Juan Carlos, married Victoria Eugenia de Battenberg, daughter of Princess Beatriz, Queen Victoria’s youngest daughter. Elizabeth II decorated King Juan Carlos with the Grand Order of Queen Victoria, of whom both are great-great-grandchildren.
Juan Carlos I was the first king to address the Lords and the Commons together in the great hall of Parliament in Westminster. Years later, in July 2017, already with Philip reigning, Elizabeth II invited the new Monarch and before the British parliament our king included this quote in his speech: “We are united by esteem and personal affections that solidly bind our societies”.
The closeness between the royal houses is more than evident, but the closeness between Juan Carlos and Sofía with the late Queen Elizabeth and her husband was such that when our king and queen officially visited the United Kingdom in 1986, they did not stay at our embassy but at the very Windsor Castle, and that is a decision that can only be personally approved by the Monarch. In 1988, Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh visited several Spanish cities, corresponding to the previous invitation.
As much as speculation was anticipated that he would not be at the funeral, the rank of Don Juan Carlos, despite his abdication and the scandals that keep him thousands of kilometers from Spain, adds to the kinship and family ties of the Emeritus and not to mention Doña Sofía, with the Windsors, who are actually Saxe-Coburg, Gotha and Hannover. To make matters worse, Philip of Edinburgh, who died on April 9 of last year, was the son of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and Princess Alice of Battenberg, and therefore was a member of the Greek Royal House by birth. The absence of Mrs. Sofia and of Juan Carlos I perhaps it would have been more striking than his presence. Although the kings of Spain did not attend the wedding of Carlos and Lady Di because it was known that their honeymoon passed through Gibraltar, the great Chinese in the shoe of the relations between Windsor and Bourbons, the affection between Elizabeth II and Felipe de Edinburgh with our Royal Family has been made clear on several occasions. Y Let’s not forget where the Princess of Asturias and future Queen of Spain studies. Will she come closer or will her parents run away to Wales?
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