Juan Carlos's lawyer, Javier Sanchez-Junco Mans, said in an emailed statement that the former king had asked him to make clear that even though he will be outside Spain he intends to be available to co-operate with the investigation.

Executive power lies with the elected parliamentary government.

Since then, Spanish media outlets have published damaging testimony from a separate Swiss investigation into millions of euros (dollars) that were allegedly given to Juan Carlos by Saudi Arabia's late King Abdullah.

Juan Carlos’s grandfather, King Alfonso XIII, was chased from the throne amid popular ire, in 1931, and the monarchy was restored only thanks to …

The daily La Vanguardia also said he was in the Caribbean country, but only temporarily. When I published an Just as Pope Francis’s populist measures may well save the Catholic Church, replacing Juan Carlos may save the Spanish monarchy. Nothing has been the same in Spain since the day, two years ago, when King Juan Carlos was revealed to have broken his hip on an elephant-hunting trip to Botswana, and was flown home to be treated at an exclusive clinic. (All this, and more, had long been talked about among royal courtiers and grandees and politicians, but not among the Spanish public at large, which had long held Juan Carlos in high regard.

Juan Carlos was widely admired for steering Spain to democracy during a difficult period But towards the end of his 39-year reign he drew growing criticism Abdicates on …

But janitor Mar Verdugo, 55, urged caution. Juan Carlos, who announced on Monday that he is abdicating the throne, was long revered for his role in vouchsafing Spain’s transition to democracy following the death, in 1975, of the country’s geriatric Fascist leader, Generalissimo Francisco Franco. But Juan Carlos’s successor—his forty-six-year-old son—is generally tolerated, if unexciting, and his wife, Letizia, is wildly popular. However, he could potentially stand trial for acts committed after 2014. Traditionally, Spain’s royals are either loved or hated. Last Updated Tuesday, August 4, 2020 8:05AM EDT

Juan Carlos assumed the throne in November 1975 as King Juan Carlos I, and is credited with helping Spain peacefully restore democracy after the death of dictator Francisco Franco that year. An international team led by Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, Marie Skłodowska-Curie researcher at the Dryland Ecology and Global Change Lab of Rey…

The royal household appears to be trying to free Felipe from having close to him an uncomfortable figure who might tarnish the crown's prestige, University of Barcelona constitutional law professor Xavier Arbos said.

Neither the royal family nor the government disclosed where the former king was going.

A statement from Spain's general prosecutor's office in June said it was investigating whether Juan Carlos received millions of dollars in kickbacks from Saudi Arabia during the construction of a high-speed railway there by a Spanish consortium.

The left-wing party that is the junior partner in Spain's coalition government, Unidas Podemos, promptly called for a public debate on switching to a republic government system. Arbos saw the former king's absence from Spain posing no problem for prosecutors. Juan Carlos opuścił ojczyznę, aby ratować monarchię. These days, political cynicism and apathy are widespread in Spain. "He should have to stay here, return the money and do prison time, like all Spaniards when you break the law." Juan Carlos I is a multi-purpose amphibious assault ship-aircraft carrier in the Spanish Navy (Armada Española).Similar in role to many aircraft carriers, the ship has a ski jump for STOVL operations, and is equipped with the AV-8B Harrier II attack aircraft.The vessel is named in honour of Juan Carlos I, the former King of Spain.. The news that the junket, complete with private jet, had been subsidized by a Syrian-born Saudi businessman was also unpleasant. Juan Carlos, 82, is the target of official investigations in Spain and Switzerland, into possible financial wrongdoing. The Prince did not appear, but Letizia did, and she carried off her role, tensely but with aplomb and good humor, even saying in a waggish, whispered aside that she had had “better days.”At the time, the King’s apology seemed just enough to allow him to survive the scandal—but talk of abdication soon began. "There is no reason at all to keep supporting a monarchy which doesn't possess minimum ethical standards," the party said in a statement late Monday.

In what was perhaps Carlos’s finest moment, he went on television, on February 23rd, 1981, to face down a right-wing military coup that was already under way; his That the King was clueless enough to kill elephants for sport is embarrassing. Choosing August, when many people are on vacation, for the announcement about Juan Carlos's departure was convenient timing, he told The Associated Press.

His bombshell announcement took most Spaniards by … But the Socialist party, which leads the government under Sanchez, has given no sign of pursuing that path and declared its support for Felipe.