The infamous video of Juan Carlos I has left news anchors across various networks astonished. In a very subtle way, the references hinted at the bewilderment caused by that precarious and tacky staging: the emeritus king, motionless and expressionless as always, superimposed on a vigorously waving Spanish flag, in a format worthy of the YouTubers the most sordid aspects of the digital world.I want to leave a brief message for young Spaniards"," he began. "Not even the Poland It would have surpassed the level of absurdity when imagining a promotional sketch for the monarch's memoirs.

Now he has none left, and public memory is often short, but for many years, King Juan Carlos enjoyed every possible complicity. More than complicity, allegiance. More than allegiance, submission. Juan Carlos was a head of state who took advantage of his position (obtained from Franco, as he himself explains in his book, without a trace of shame for this reason) to conduct business for his own benefit. But the most relevant thing is that he did this with the acquiescence or willful blindness of everyone: the successive left-wing and right-wing governments, the judiciary, the Tax Agency (which he systematically defrauded), the business associations, the Church (which never saw anything reprehensible, as much as the monarch's scandalous conduct seemed to please the elite), and, of course, the media, which maintained, willingly or by force, a pact of silence on everything related to the Crown.

In just a few days, we have received news of three people who almost 45 years ago were protagonists of the attempted coup d'état of February 23, 1981: Juan Carlos I, then head of state, who has published his memoirs with a French publisher, and Anna Balletbò, who on that February 23rd was a socialist deputy for Barcelona and died last October 24th at the age of 81.

This week the first edition of ReconciliationA book that, as its title suggests, the emeritus king supposedly wrote (or dictated, which he does more for himself) with the aim of making peace. But with whom does Juan Carlos want to reconcile? With one of his lovers? With all of them? With his family ("they don't care about me anymore," he laments)? With the subjects (and taxpayers) of the Kingdom of Spain? With the Spanish Treasury, which he repeatedly and consistently defrauded while he was head of state? With the international lobbies with whom he has done business throughout his life and who now shelter him in Abu Dhabi? (Shelter him while the subjects and taxpayers of the Kingdom of Spain continue to foot the bill.) It hurts to say, and everything indicates that the book is not going to clarify this.

Juan Carlos I will publish his memoirs in France on November 5. This Wednesday, a week earlier, the former king made it clear that his objective is none other than to rehabilitate his image after five years of exile in Abu Dhabi. weekly Le Point He has released some excerpts from the book, in which the former monarch defends democracy as his "legacy" in Spain, and in an interview in Le Figaro He himself states that this was Franco's objective when he granted him accession to the throne: "Why lie if it was he who made me king and, in reality, did so to create a more open regime?" Coinciding with this promotion, Juan Carlos I lands in Spain this Wednesday.

We read in the ARA that Juan Carlos I "has decided to sue his ex-lover Corinna Larsen" ten days after suing "the former president of Cantabria, Miguel Ángel Revilla." Throw a piece in the pot.

Miguel Ángel Revilla didn't expect to receive a lawsuit at 82 years old, much less from Juan Carlos I. The former president of Cantabria learned the news on Tuesday while playing his first acting role in the filming of a movie by Antonio Resines. And the first reaction was one of "rage" and "anger": "Why me?" he asked this Wednesday at a press conference at the headquarters of the Regionalist Party of Cantabria (PRC). The party's secretary general denied having committed any crime and made it clear that he does not regret his "permanent denunciation" of the emeritus, which he has made in recent years and which he once again reflects on in his latest book: "He is harsh with the king, but he deserves it," he said.

On his last day in Sanxenxo, the king emeritus seemed to be having a laugh at the press, who at every possible opportunity asked him what he would tell his son, King Felipe VI, and whether he planned to give him some kind of explanations. The half-hearted, mischievous answers peaked yesterday afternoon, when asked whether he would give explanations, he retored: "Explanations for what?", and then laughed. As if everything was, in fact, a joke. Social media outrage came thick and fast after La Sexta broadcast the scene.

Interpol has asked Abu Dhabi for the immediate arrest and extradition of the Spanish-Lebanese arms merchant Abdul Rahman El Assir, who has accompanied the former Spanish king Juan Carlos I to this country, and on whom two international arrest warrants have weighed since 2019, according to El País. The newspaper also published a few days ago that El Assir, 71, was hiding in Abu Dhabi, where he has been seen for months with former Spanish king at his private residence, with some sources believing he is using Juan Carlos I as a "shield" to avoid his legal problems. El Assir has a long friendship with the former monarch and he was one of the guests at the wedding of King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia in 2004.

Lawyers from the international law firm Clifford Chance have filed a response to the lawsuit filed by Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein's lawyers for harassment, illegal monitoring by agents of the National Intelligence Centre (CNI) in the United Kingdom and defamation. The response states that Juan Carlos I is immune from this lawsuit because of his status as former King of Spain and former Head of State. 

It is now just over a year since the king emeritus sent a letter to his son, Felipe VI, in which he announced that to avoid further damage to the Crown he was leaving the Royal Palace and going to live abroad. Six years ago, for the same reason, he had been forced to abdicate in favour of his son in a desperate attempt to safeguard the monarchy, which he had mired in a whole series of scandals related to corruption investigations linked to his extramarital affairs coming to light. At the moment the situation is that Juan Carlos I is being hosted in Abu Dhabi, in a villa in Nurai, in the Persian Gulf, by his friend Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan, president of the United Arab Emirates, and, although every now and then a rumour spreads that he wants to return, it does not seem that at the moment the conditions have changed much to allow him to do so.

The monarchy, with the support of the PSOE and the opposition of the triple right, wanted to turn this week the fortieth anniversary of the coup d'état of 23-F into a way of vindicating the discredited figure of the king emeritus. According to the official story, the actions of Juan Carlos I put a stop to the tejerazo and saved the then young Spanish democracy. But the attempt has remained just that, an attempt. Not in vain, Felipe VI's father has long since fallen into disgrace on his own merits. He can no longer be saved by the sweetened epic of that distant episode. The emeritus has lost the popular support that for years surrounded him and made him an institutional pillar of the State; now the monarchy cannot find a way to overcome the crisis of legitimacy in which it is immersed. For years Juan Carlos I has been squandering the credit he had earned during the Transition, to the point that the accumulation of scandals led him to have to abdicate and finally go into exile in a shameful escape to Abu Dhabi, where he still resides and from where, thanks to the passivity of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor and the Tax Agency, he is manoeuvring to escape his tax crimes. If last December he paid the Treasury up to 678,393 euros to avoid a tax investigation into the opaque cards, this Thursday it has been learned that he has made a new payment of 4.3 million to avoid what would be a fraud in the Treasury of 120,000 euros. It is clear the favored treatment that he continues to receive. And that makes any restoration impossible, not even moral.

The Spanish president, Pedro Sánchez, has shown his "categorical rejection of the uncivic behaviors" that are being noted in the last hours due to the fiscal regularization of Juan Carlos I. However, he wanted to show all his support to the current head of state, Felipe VI, with the same "rotundity", for the "exemplary decisions and the good use of the resources" of the son of the emeritus. Despite his "resounding rejection of the uncivic behavior" of Juan Carlos I, Sánchez has denied that he is acting in this way thanks to inaction on the part of the Tax Agency, since Juan Carlos I has been able to avoid a tax crime because there has been no complaint by the Treasury. "The professionalism and autonomy of the Tax Agency cannot be questioned at all. In this I want to be very clear in the same way that I have expressed in a resounding rejection of the uncivic behavior", he said.