Overview
- He is making a brief return to Spain with a stop in Vitoria for a medical appointment before traveling to Portugal and likely Galicia during the promotion period.
- The memoir, Juan Carlos I d’Espagne. Réconciliation, is set for release on November 5 in France and December 3 in Spain, a sequencing chosen to avoid November anniversaries tied to Franco and the transition.
- In interviews with Le Figaro and Paris Match, he insists “democracy did not fall from the sky,” defends his role in Spain’s transition, and maintains there were “three” 23‑F plots, accusing Alfonso Armada of betrayal.
- He acknowledges accepting $100 million from Saudi King Abdullah as a serious mistake and says his relationship with Corinna Larsen damaged his reign and his life.
- The Royal Household has declined to comment on his remarks and intends to keep the same stance when the book is published.