Overview
- Juan Carlos I releases Juan Carlos I d’Espagne. Réconciliation in France with publisher Stock, breaking decades of royal silence with a first‑person account of his reign and exile.
- He acknowledges for the first time what he calls 'sentimental lapses,' rejects most alleged affairs as fictitious, and says his private life did not affect his duties.
- He labels his relationship with Corinna Larsen 'the weakness of a man' and an error that harmed his image and influenced his decision to leave Spain for Abu Dhabi in 2020.
- He admits accepting a $100 million gift from Saudi King Abdullah as 'a grave mistake,' describing it as a donation he felt unable to refuse, a point linked in the book to later scrutiny by Swiss and Spanish authorities.
- He recounts a personal and institutional rupture with King Felipe VI after the latter renounced his inheritance and withdrew his allowance, telling his son, 'You inherit a political system that I built.'