The newsstand doesn't buy the king's sugar memoirs.
The book Reconciliation The book about the emeritus king has already been published in France, and this publishing anomaly is the first symptom of how everything surrounding Juan Carlos is, to put it mildly, quaint. After decades of back and forth, this Thursday only theABC It dedicates a friendly front page to him, highlighting a very pointed quote: "I gave the Spanish people a democracy. It is my legacy." What will the prevention and cordon sanitaire be like that not even The Vanguard He offers her asylum on the front page. He doesn't do that either. The reasonBut they will wait until December, when Planeta—from the same publishing group—will publish the Spanish edition. In Catalonia, in fact, only The Newspaper It's featured on the front page, and it's worthy of a resounding defeat: "Juan Carlos I misses the chance to be held accountable."
In any case, the true measure of the drama is revealed in the back row of the newsstand: the glossy magazines. There, the condemnation is almost heartbreaking. "This is how Letizia made Juan Carlos suffer. Public humiliations and malicious rumors," it exclaims. Readings"King Juan Carlos apologizes to Queen Sofia," it states. Week...forcing him to his knees. "All the barbs in his memoirs are aimed at his family," he concludes. Ten minutes, treating him as an unrepentant traitor. For the general public and readers of gossip magazines, his legacy will not be having gracefully ushered in democracy, but rather having snatched the crown from Sofía in exchange for a royal cuckoldry and a demand for silence. Juan Carlos is the embodiment of how the internet, despite its myriad problems, has broken down information monopolies. Because, it's worth remembering, the easygoing one The narrative that everyone is now quick to criticize dominated the story for most of his reign. And it wasn't out of ignorance. It was simply that no media outlet dared to say, even knowingly, that the emperor had no clothes. And not just metaphorically.
