Marina Artusa
11/17/2020 1:51 PM
Clarín.com
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Updated 11/17/2020 1:51 PM
Three months ago, the
Spanish Royal House
confirmed that King Emeritus Juan Carlos had left the kingdom to take refuge in the payments of a friendly Arab monarch, in Abu Dhabi, while the justice system investigated him for suspicious financial transactions.
The Bourbon, who was head of state for almost four decades, until he abdicated in favor of his son Felipe in 2014, has been away from the Palacio de la Zarzuela for more than 100 days and yet the Spaniards have news of him
almost daily
: leaks of more alleged excessive transfers, anecdotes, exotic trips, covered with fur and friction of
seduction with courtesans
and royal ladies.
Even a new fictionalized biography:
Yo, el rey
, written by Pilar Eyre, a journalist and writer who has covered the Spanish Royal House for decades.
I, the king, the new book by Pilar Eyre.
"He will not return to Spain," Eyre said in one of the television programs he is circulating for promoting the more than
500 pages
he wrote about the king emeritus.
At the moment there are three tax investigations that investigate the money movements of Juan Carlos I who, together with the queen emerita Sofía, Felipe VI, Queen Letizia and the heir to the throne, the princess of Asturias, has forums.
The assessment, however, does not immunize him from purging crimes, if he committed them, but it does designate the only court that could judge him: the Supreme Court.
Spain also tires with Article 56 of its Constitution, which establishes the inviolability of the king, while he reigns.
Juan Carlos I de Borbón lost it on June 18, 2014 when he gave the throne to his son Felipe.
King Don Juan Carlos, in a file image.
Photo: Clarín archive
According to Eyre, the author of
Yo, el rey
, Juan Carlos
receives "commissions"
for his intermediation - one of the main current accusations that the Justice investigates -
since 1973.
"He collected his first commissions in the oil crisis of '73," Eyre said on the Saturday Deluxe program.
He got his Arab brothers to send oil to Spain because there was no oil in any western country because of the Yom Kippur War and, thanks to that, he was for many years
collecting a commission
.
That was the beginning of the immense fortune that he came to treasure.
Commissions at that time were not a crime.
And he has become rich. "
"It is a modus operandi that has had for many years," said the author of
Yo, el rey
.
The year '71 was a turning point.
(Juan Carlos) went to some celebrations for the anniversary of the Persian empire, in Persepolis, and there he realized
how the rich lived
.
He only charged 70 thousand pesetas at that time, which was little money at the time.
There he made contact with the Arabs who later helped him to become very rich. "
In 1971, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi celebrated 2,500 years of monarchy in present-day Iran for three days in Persepolis.
The Bourbon was among the guests.
But for the Spaniards who do not delight in the dialogues that the fictionalized biography recreates, for example, about that lunch in which Juan Carlos, still King of Spain, gathered his children to tell them that he planned to separate from Queen Sofía - with whom According to Eyre, he had
not slept romantically
since 1968, when Felipe was born - the daily chronicle offers a rich menu about the adventures of the emeritus.
King and queen.
Sofia and Juan Carlos in a photo taken in May 2004, at the end of Felipe and Letizia's wedding.
Photo: AFP
Like the three private trips that he would have made to Kazakhstan before 2007, according to the online newspaper
elDiario.es
, where he had a
hunting belly
with the Kazakh president, Nursultán Nazarbáyev, he would have lobbied for Spanish companies such as Repsol and Talgo and de where he would have come home with a snow leopard coat and five million dollars in black briefcases.
Another figure that is obscene for many Spaniards is that of the eight million euros that King Juan Carlos would have used on
private flights
that he made between 2009 and 2018, that is, while he was head of state and after having left the throne.
Those charters, according to another online newspaper,
El Confidencial
, took him to North America, the Caribbean and the Middle East.
The funds would have come from the Zagatka Foundation, directed by a cousin of Juan Carlos, Alvaro de Orleans-Borbón.
Hormones to appease virility
The Liechtenstein-based foundation would have received 6.5 million euros in transfers
without a clear origin.
The epic of the daring king does not neglect the stories of the heart.
Even Corinna Larsen, the Bourbon's great weakness, opens her mouth these days commenting on intimacies that the
shame of others would
censor.
As in 2011, after an intervention, King Juan Carlos would have been supplied, from his environment, sleeping pills and female hormones to
appease his virility
and weaken him.
"He has always had a great sexual drive, like all Bourbons," said Pilar Eyre.
And then a great need for affection.
You always need to fall in love, even a little bit.
The mere fact of sex for sex's sake does not interest him. "
Madrid. Correspondent