'La Razón' reveals the true favorite lover of Joan Carles

Laurence Debray is the writer who has given shape to Reconciliation, the memoirs of Juan Carlos with which he tries to save his public image once he has entered the final stretch. They are published by Planeta, and the group's newspaper, La Razón, interviewed this French author, daughter of illustrious revolutionaries. Texts do not always resemble pots. Debray's discourse fits perfectly into the newspaper's ideology: "Confronting Juan Carlos with Felipe only benefits terrorists, separatists, and republicans," she says in one passage, and all she's missing is mentioning trade unionists and Freemasons. The questions are of the type that condition the answer, as when she asks if the book will be "the learning that Leonor has not had as an heiress granddaughter," and the interviewee has the courtesy to say yes, of course. There is no shortage of questions about lovers, and the answer is frankly surprising. "For a Frenchman, it seems obvious that a king has extramarital affairs. We are more concerned that Macron doesn't have lovers." The follow-up questions were obvious: "Does she assume that Felipe VI has them?" or "Should Queen Letizia also be able to enjoy furtive roll in the hay, in fair correspondence?". For some reason I don't quite understand, La Razón does not venture into these entertaining paths.

The key to decoding the interview, as is often the case, is to pay attention to what is not asked. There is talk of special friends, loneliness, the return to Spain, physical decline... But there is not a single word about money. Neither about who maintains him, nor how his enrichment is justified, nor what millionaire gifts he has received or given, nor what commissions he has pocketed and, above all, there is no reference to his most sinful relationship, which is that of his pocket with the Spanish treasury. I suppose that not even the most imaginative novelist had the spirit to fabricate a minimally plausible answer.