Madrid
Will he talk about it?
Will he not talk about it?
The King of Spain is due to deliver his traditional Christmas speech this Thursday at 9 p.m.
Millions of subjects will listen to Felipe VI before attacking the seafood or the suckling pig, during an address in which it is customary to look back on the past year and express wishes for the one who s 'opens.
The opportunity to provide some recommendations to society and its elites, usually in sufficiently general, ecumenical or cryptic terms to prevent the Head of State from entering partisan politics.
Except this time the main crisis is internal.
The proliferation of affairs around Juan Carlos, the emeritus king who left for Abu Dhabi last August to avoid his son's presence, which has become too cumbersome, is the first serious threat to the crown since the lieutenant-colonel's coup d'état Tejero in 1981.
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