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Disgraced former king of Spain’s memoir details ‘enormous respect’ for Franco

europeNovember 6, 2025
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Disgraced former king of Spain’s memoir details ‘enormous respect’ for Franco
Memoir chronicles Juan Carlos’s anointment as heir to dictator and death of younger brother when playing with pistolsA memoir by Spain’s disgraced former king chronicles his anointment as he...

Memoir chronicles Juan Carlos’s anointment as heir to dictator and death of younger brother when playing with pistols

A memoir by Spain’s disgraced former king chronicles his anointment as heir to the dictator Francisco Franco, his role in saving democracy from a coup attempt in 1981, and his grief at the death of his younger brother when the two were “playing” with a pistol as teenagers.

The book, published 11 years after Juan Carlos’s abdication and exile, is titled Reconciliation but appears to do anything but, instead detailing how he feels abandoned and misunderstood by his son and heir, King Felipe VI, and by other close family members.

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Source: Guardian - World News

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