Zarzuela fears a new, inopportune and excessive media exposure of Don Juan Carlos for his birthday

The island of Nurai, in Abu Dhabi, is a place that does not bring good feelings to Felipe VI and Mrs. Letizia. Zarzuela fears a new and inopportune media exhibition of Don Juan Carlos like last year, when there was the grotesque ostentation for his birthday celebration that was even the cover of Hola. This January 5, the Emeritus turns 87 and the visit of his daughters, the Infantas Elena and Cristina, who Informalia brought forward, is taken for granted, as well as several grandchildren. But the Emeritus has been asked to be discreet, not to show off and keep in mind that this year the Bárbara Rey scandal has regained media interest with the appearance of the photographs kissing with the star and the audios, in addition to the numerous interviews granted for the totanera, a whole television festival that the Palace does not like.

All this without taking into account that Spain is experiencing the end of the year with the more than 200 victims of DANA and their families with suffering on the surface and almost all the problems to be resolved. For similar reasons, the King Emeritus was asked to abort or at least delay the publication of the Memoirs that Don Juan Carlos himself had announced, a book written by the Frenchwoman Laurence Debray and that for the moment will not see the light.

It would be terrible for the image of the former Monarch, already battered, an excessive exhibition that exceeds a discreet visit from his family and at most a few loyal friends who congratulate him on his voluntary exile. But better without much advertising.

Juan Carlos I has lived in the Emirates since 2020, where he does not have to report to the Spanish Treasury. He decided to settle there on August 3 of that year, thanks at first to the hospitality and generosity of his friend Abdul Rahmam El Assir, the arms merchant who offered him his house. At that time the situation for Don Juan Carlos was more due to the Corinna Larsen scandal, and some unfavorable information, related to fiscal conduct that was not exemplary, and from which he was only saved by prescription, because he regularized (and paid) or because of his inviolability. His return to Spain was not part of his immediate agenda. He now resides in a mansion of three thousand square meters, with six rooms in suites in which his infants Elena and Cristina and several grandchildren will be installed these days, as Informalia announced in the first place.

Several media outlets assure that the Emeritus will ignore Zarzuela’s advice so that he does not do exhibitions or excesses of ostentation this year like last year. Furthermore, word has been spread that the image of Don Juan Carlos now, if it does not contaminate, let’s say that it does not favor the image of businessmen and companies that in one way or another ignore conduct that is censored not only by public opinion. but by his own son, the head of State, who withdrew his father’s assignment more than four years ago, an indicator that the current head of the King’s House censures his father’s conduct before public opinion, well due to the successive appearances of lovers and other very scandals exposed and that do not stop, like that of the Foundation that came to light this same year.