Under the French title of Reconciliation -in Spanish, Reconciliation-, he King Juan Carlos (86 years old) will publish next November 13, 2024 his long-awaited autobiography. Written during more than four years that he lived in Abu Dhabi, emeritus, throughout the 512 pages that his work will cover his entire life: from his childhood in Rome, Switzerland and Estoril to his last stays in the United Arab Emirates, including his years with the dictator Francisco Franco.
This will be the first time that a king of spain to publish a book with these characteristics, because, as he himself acknowledges, Juan Carlos I in the extract from his autobiography to which the French magazine had access Point of View“Kings do not reveal their secrets.”
“My father always advised me not to write memoirs.. Kings don’t admit it. And even less so publicly. Their secrets remain buried in the darkness of the palaces. Why would I disobey him? Why did I change my mind? I feel like they’re stealing my own history,” says the father of Philip VI (56).
[Juan Carlos I vuelve a Madrid para el funeral de su sobrino y se hospedará en un hotel: la indignación de su entorno]
King Juan Carlos at the funeral of his nephew Fernando last April.
The memories of King Juan Carlos will be published in French in collaboration with the French publisher Stock of editions. According to the publishing house’s officials, in his biography, the husband of the Queen Sofia (85) admits “your mistakes and bad choices. He does not hide his regrets. “He speaks from the heart, like someone who knows he does not have much time left and prefers to confess than to lie.”
Despite Point of view published this Tuesday, September 24, that the King’s Memoirs will be available at the beginning of 2025, EL ESPAÑOL was able to verify that both Fnac and Amazon as with other distributors of cultural products The date that appears is November 13th. The same is true in other French bookstores and publishers such as Eyrolles, Furet du Nord or Mille Feuilles.
[Juan Carlos I regresa a España para dar el último adiós a Juan Gómez-Acebo: el día en que coincidirá con Felipe y Letizia]
Juan Carlos, in Sanxenxo
The news of the imminent publication of the memoirs of Juan Carlos I It comes just on the day that the former head of state of Spain for 39 years is enjoying a few days of sun and sea in Sanxenxo, his Spanish refuge. The grandfather of THE Princess of Asturias (19 years old) returned this Monday, September 23, to Galicia to defend the Bribón title in the European 6M class that will take place next week in Sanxenxo (Pontevedra) and that he will prepare from next Friday with the regatta that bears his name.
Just days after attending his nephew’s funeral in Madrid Juan Gomez-Acebo and the businessman and philanthropist Alejandro Fernández de Araoz y MarañónThe private plane in which the former head of state was travelling landed at around 6:20 p.m. at Peinador airport in Vigo, where his host in Galicia was waiting for him at the foot of the runway. Pedro Campospresident of the Real Club Náutico de Sanxenxo.
