Rise and Fall of Spain’s Juan Carlos I

The Royal Club Náutico, in the resort of Sanxenxo, a curving strip of white sand beach on Spain’s Galician coast, is a major stop on the international sailboat racing circuit. But the hundreds of journalists who mobbed the port on May 20 hadn’t come to admire the yachts competing in the 2022 Spanish Cup. The object of their attention was an octogenarian sailor sporting salmon-colored chinos and a pink baseball cap: Spain’s former king, Juan Carlos I. Having abdicated the throne in 2014, then gone into exile under pressure from his son, King Felipe VI, in 2020, he had chosen… Read Full Article