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Juan Carlos I (Spanish: [xwaŋˈkaɾlos]; [note 1] Juan Carlos Alfonso Víctor María de Borbón y Borbón-Dos Sicilias, born 5 January 1938) is a member of the Spanish royal family who reigned as King of Spain from 22 November 1975 until his abdication on 19 June 2014.
The transition to democracy took place in the early years of his reign, making Spain no longer the only non-communist dictatorship left in Europe. The new king assumed the project of the reformist sector of Franco's political elite that, facing the conservatives, defended the need to introduce gradual changes in the fundamental laws so that the new monarchy would be accepted in Europe as a whole.
In 1969, twelve years after the Law of Succession to the Headship of the State, the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco skipped Infante Juan and designated Juan Carlos as his successor, with the title Prince of Spain. [2] On Franco's death in 1975, he thus became King of Spain. The Spanish titles of Juan Carlos I as monarch of Spain were as ...
Spain’s former king Juan Carlos left his country, dogged by allegations of bribery and corruption swirling around a Saudi rail contract. It was a bombshell move and dramatic exit by the ex ...
Juan Carlos I, King of Spain, announced his pending abdication from the throne on 2 June 2014.An organic law formalizing the abdication, required by the 1978 Constitution in its article 57.5, [1] was drafted by the government and approved by the Cortes Generales, and was formally signed on 18 June during a ceremony in the Hall of Columns [] of the Royal Palace of Madrid.
Carlos I may refer to: Carlos I of Spain (1500–1558), also Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire; Carlos I of Portugal (1863–1908), King of Portugal; Juan Carlos I of Spain (born 1938), King of Spain
The Count of Barcelona formally renounced his claims in favour of his son in 1977, two years after Franco's death and Juan Carlos's accession. Juan Carlos abdicated in favor of his son Felipe VI, who became king on 19 June 2014, with Felipe's older daughter, Leonor, next in succession. [7]
Former Spanish King Juan Carlos I won his London court battle Friday with an ex-lover who had sought 126 million pounds ($153 million) in damages for allegedly being harassed and spied on by him ...