Overview
- Reconciliación, co‑written with Laurence Debray, goes on sale in France with a Spanish edition due December 3.
- Juan Carlos acknowledges extramarital relationships as “some slips” and calls accepting a $100 million Saudi gift a grave mistake.
- He recounts a personal rupture with Felipe VI after the current king renounced his inheritance and cut the annual allowance, telling him, “This announcement means you reject me.”
- The former king revisits the accidental death of his brother as a lifelong trauma and offers warm assessments of Franco that have drawn political criticism.
- PSOE figures, including Patxi López, fault passages praising the dictator, as the Royal Household excludes Juan Carlos from official 50th‑anniversary events and he spends the week in Sanxenxo for regattas.