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19 unusual facts about Juan Carlos I of Spain


Arnaldo Otegi

In November 2005, Otegi was sentenced to a year in prison, on charges of slander against King Juan Carlos during a 2003 news conference.

Carmen Jovet

In 1987, The Governor of Puerto Rico Rafael Hernández Colón, named Jovet as the official coordinator in charge of the official state visit of the King and Queen of Spain.

Constitutions of Spain

They established the very institutions that would later, under Juan Carlos I and Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez, commit "constitutional suicide" and pass the Political Reform Act, starting the Spanish transition to democracy.

Corruption in Spain

its directors were Diego Torres Pérez and former handball star Iñaki Urdangarin, Duke of Palma the son in law of the Spanish King, who also ran a consultancy with his wife, the princess Cristina de Borbón y Grecia.

Dominik Rainer Radziwiłł

Tatiana was a bridesmaid at the 1962 wedding of Prince Juan Carlos of Spain and Princess Sophia of Greece and Denmark.

Eliot Fisk

In 1996 he appeared in a command performance in the Palacio de los Cordova in Granada, Spain, for then U.S. President Bill Clinton and King Juan Carlos and their families.

Emilio García Gómez

On 7 October 1994 García Gómez was raised into the Spanish nobility by King Juan Carlos I and received the hereditary title conde de los Alixares (English: Count of Alixares).

Eugenio Vegas Latapie

A founder member of Acción Española, Vegas Latapié was noted for his extreme monarchism to the point that he lost faith variously in Alfonso XIII, his son Juan and grandson Juan Carlos, to whom he was a tutor, as he felt that they were not monarchist enough.

Gran Telescopio Canarias

The Gran Telescopio Canarias formally opened its shutters on July 24, 2009, inaugurated by King Juan Carlos I of Spain.

Jewish dance

In 2010, Silvia Duran, an Israeli flamenco dancer, was honored by King Juan Carlos I of Spain for training generations of flamenco dancers at her studio in Tel Aviv, The citation was awarded for her "contribution to the culture of Spain and the Spanish people.

Jon Juaristi

He has occupied the chair of Spanish Philology at the University of the Basque Country, the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center at New York University, and has been titular professor of the Chair of Contemporary Thought of the Cañada Blanch Foundation at the University of Valencia.

Louis Armand II, Prince of Conti

His male line descendants died out in 1814; through his daughter however, he is an ancestor of the present-day pretenders to the throne of France and Italy and the kings of Spain and Belgium.

Margarita Salas

On 11 July 2008, Salas was raised into the Spanish nobility by King Juan Carlos I with the hereditary title of Marquesa de Canero (English: Marquise of Canero).

Maria Rosa Calvo-Manzano

She has also been recognized with numerous national and international prizes and decorated by the King of Spain with "El Lazo de Isabel la Católica" and "La Encomienda de Alfonso X el Sabio".

Max Soliven

Nine years later, Soliven was conferred one of Spain's most coveted decorations, the rank of Encomendero de la Orden Isabel la Católica, from King Juan Carlos.

Organization of Ibero-American States

The Honorary President of the organization is His Majesty King Juan Carlos I of Spain.

Philippe Boiry

He has also met Juan Carlos I of Spain and Baudouin I of Belgium and has pictures of them with him in his house in Chourgnac.

Politics of Gibraltar

The suggestion was for a status similar to that of Andorra, in which Queen Elizabeth II and King Juan Carlos would be joint heads of state, in the same way that President of France and the Spanish Bishop of Urgell are Co-Princes of Andorra.

Sychdyn

Notable guests that have stayed here include Luciano Pavarotti, Michael Jackson and King Juan Carlos I of Spain.


Marquisate of Del Bosque

The marquisate was bestowed by Juan Carlos I of Spain on Vicente del Bosque, by Royal Decree 135/2011, on 3 February 2011 in recognition of his "great dedication to Spanish sport and the contribution of don Vicente del Bosque González to the promotion of sporting values".

Presidential Mansion, Athens

Another extension was needed when Princess Sophia of Greece (now queen of Spain, and daughter of King Paul and Queen Frederika) became engaged to His Royal Highness The Prince Juan Carlos of Spain (now His Majesty The King of Spain).

Wheelchair Foundation

The WF International Board of Advisers includes a number of current and former heads of state and celebrities, including co-chairs Juan Carlos and Sophia of Spain, as well as Mikhail Gorbachev and Nelson Mandela.