{"id":554840,"date":"2023-04-20T22:22:19","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T16:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.www.bullfrag.com\/how-the-headlines-of-the-british-press-explain-the-loss-of-prestige-of-juan-carlos-i\/"},"modified":"2023-04-20T22:22:19","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T16:52:19","slug":"how-the-headlines-of-the-british-press-explain-the-loss-of-prestige-of-juan-carlos-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/how-the-headlines-of-the-british-press-explain-the-loss-of-prestige-of-juan-carlos-i\/","title":{"rendered":"how the headlines of the british press explain the loss of prestige of Juan Carlos I"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A few days ago, the emeritus king was seen in London leaving a private club in a luxurious 4×4. The place in question was Oswald’s, the small London corner where famous and wealthy people from the British capital meet and where dinners that can reach thousands of euros are organized. That day, Juan Carlos I allegedly dined with British royals<\/u> like the Prince of Wales and ex-politicians like Boris Johnson, among other millionaires.<\/p>\n

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As our fellow Trendencias comment<\/u>Juan Carlos I was visiting London to go to Buckingham Palace on Tuesday and have lunch alone with Carlos III, to whom he would have shown his disagreement with Felipe VI and Letizia deciding that Neither he nor Queen Sof\u00eda come<\/strong> to the coronation of the son of Elizabeth II. <\/p>\n

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However, the reason for his trip is not what has attracted the most attention. Several Spanish media have echoed another detail of interest: the disqualifying<\/strong> with which the British press refer to the emeritus.<\/p>\n

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The Daily Mail, for example, one of the most widely read newspapers in the UK due to its meticulous monitoring of monarchical life (although it is also a tabloid and by definition opts for hyperbole and sensationalism), headlined one of his articles<\/u> referring to Juan Carlos I as “disgraced” and “disgraced”<\/strong>. The same journalists cite him in the text as “the controversial 85-year-old royal who has been at the center of corruption investigations in his homeland and a long ongoing legal battle with her ex-lover<\/u>“. They don’t even call him king. <\/p>\n

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But they go much further in other lines, where they directly annihilate him<\/u>: “Exiled from a scandalous life”, “2000 lovers”, “attempted to woo Diana”, “lives apart from his wife and family, and faces legal proceedings against his lover”, “known for his misdeeds”<\/strong>, “he fatally shot his brother”, “adulterer”, “improper financial conduct”. They also emphasize Corinna’s complaint for harassment, the B\u00e1rbara Rey scandal or the lover who died due to strange circumstances. Sandra Mozarowsky<\/u>.<\/p>\n

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disgraced.<\/em><\/p>\n

Despite the respect that the British have for the monarchy and religion, they were also not compassionate towards the Spanish Bourbons at Elizabeth II’s funeral. The BBC then described Juan Carlos I as “king in exile”<\/u> while Daily Mail described it again as “shame”, while recalling that he has a pending matter with the English Justice for the lawsuit filed by ex-lover Corinna Larsen for harassment, defamation and illegal surveillance.<\/p>\n

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These are not the only times that the emeritus has been criticized by the international press. On another occasion, the British newspaper The Times <\/em>he dedicated the header of his cover to talk about his scandals under the title “The fallen king”. The German newspaper Spiegel Panorama described Juan Carlos I’s controversy with his partner, Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, as “Corinna-Virus”. The French Le Monde summed it all up this way: “A suitcase of banknotes in Switzerland, an opaque foundation in Panama: Juan Carlos, the bewilderment of Spain.” And The Asian Age titled another report with: <\/strong>“Once a Hero, Once a King”<\/p>\n

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From “hero” of the Transition to disowned<\/strong><\/h2>\n

the one that one day was maker and supporter of the Transition<\/strong> not only in Spain, but in the rest of the world, has ended up being a disowned<\/u>. The one who reinstated the Crown and his popular legitimacy, he continues to be the protagonist of a series of scandals that forever eroded his image. As we mentioned in this other Magnet article<\/u>his fall from grace within the Royal House, being disowned<\/u> publicly by his son, he opened the season to publish everything hidden for years.<\/p>\n

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But to understand the whole phenomenon you have to go back in time. In June 2018, the president evicted Mariano Rajoy with a motion of no confidence. The following month, various media published the famous corinna ribbons<\/u>in which Juan Carlos’s ex-lover confessed that the Emeritus used her as a figurehead: “Not because he loved me very much, but because I live in Monaco.”<\/p>\n

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Since then, other debaucheries have followed one another. Among them, the revelations that the former Head of State had ordered Zarzuela to “create a structure” to hide money in switzerland<\/u>the 100 million dollar gift from the Saudi king, the harassment lawsuit filed by Corinna<\/strong> in London or the successive tax regularizations last year.<\/p>\n

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After all those scandals It was “convenient” that on August 3, 2020 the Emeritus left Spain<\/u>. And so it was agreed between Moncloa and Zarzuela, although it was never officially communicated in this way. The Government also contributed its most honest opinion: “it is preferable that the King’s father stay out of Spain<\/strong>. At least for now, let him continue to live abroad.” Pedro S\u00e1nchez did not shake his hand: “The Spaniards deserve an explanation from the previous Head of State”<\/u>… and this “has not yet occurred”.<\/p>\n

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Image: GTRES<\/em><\/p>\n

In Magnet | <\/em>Everything we know (and everything we don’t) about the irregular businesses of Juan Carlos I<\/em><\/p>\n

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