30th Anniversary of King Juan Carlos' Enthronement: November 25, 2005


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LaChicaMadrilena said:
An aticle from "El mundo": Over 38% young people prefer Spain to be a republic:
http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2005/11/20/espana/1132456951.html

El Mundo has chosen this title but the article contributes more information. I believe that it is normal that the young people think this way for several aspects. The young people always are more idealistic, and see the Monarchy how something that is not own of the times and they declare republicans. Many people when they mature and see how the world works probably think about another form. Besides the young people have been lucky to live in a democracy with all the freedom.
The article also speaks that the valuation of the Monarchy in Spain is of notably (7-8/10), continues being one of the institutions most valued by the Spanish. The same week in the surveys on intention of vote the representatives begin of political parties they were suspending all and were not coming to 5. So it is a good information.
Also it refers to the general idea of that the Monarchy is expensive. Idea that the people have, and that the republicans extend. When really the Monarchy can cost the same thing that any Headquarters of the State in a Republic.

Also they speak about the " pink press " and about the saturation of information d ela Royal Family who has managed to tire a bit the people. The commitment of the Prince, his wedding, Leonor's birth .... it has done that certain press takes imformando two years non-stop and it eventually is not good either. Probably now the thing will calm down, because there will be nothing new in a time.
 
http://actualidad.terra.es/sociedad/articulo/juan_carlos_borbon_599613.htm

Juan Carlos de Borbón or a 'brief' reign that lasts already three decades

In 1975, died the dictator, nobody could think that don Juan Carlos de Borbón, this melancholy and silent Prince that on November 22 he was proclaimed A King, and who the opposition in the exile was labelling of 'brief', would turn little later into the King of all the Spanish, in the protagonist of a reign who lasts already three decades.
A reign astride between two centuries and the longest had in Spain in democracy, in a regime of freedoms. A reign that Carmen Iglesias, catedrática and academic of the Language and of the History, defines as 'miraculous'.

Before a few Spanish Parliament that there was vitoreado his arrival to the Throne ' from the emotion in the recollection to Franco ', whose corpse was remaining at the same hour exposed in the Royal Palace, till then Prince of Spain did not speak this day of democracy, but yes of concord and reconciliation.

New historical stage Began a new stage of the history of Spain, with a King who had the goal clear to reaching, though he was conscious, as he would admit twenty-five years later and in the same place, the old palace of San Jerónimo's Career, of which ' the way was uncertain and full of difficulties '.
On November 27, five days later, there was celebrated in the Church of the Jerónimos a mass of Holy Spirit in the one that already was started feeling that the things were going to change, that the ' tie and good tied ' of Franco's political testament, read for tearful Arias Navarro one in the morn' A kingdom of justice ' In a cold day but with the Sun, very different from the gray morning in which the Spanish knew the death of the dictator, after a long and long agony, the cardinal Tarancon was asking the King that it out of all the Spanish, that promoviera ' a kingdom of justice ', without discriminations.
A kingdom in which ' no form of oppression enslaves anybody and which receives the differences and, respecting them, put all to the service of the community '. The words of Tarancon, which the Spanish could follow across a television that still one saw in black and white, were indicative of what would happen immediately later.

If at the funereal obsequies of the dictator, in the Plaza of East, there had been present a sinister Pinochet of dark glasses and the first Philipine lady Imelda Marcos, between the guests to the solemn ceremony in the Jerónimos there were the president of France, Valery Giscard D'Estaing, and the German chancellor Walter Scheel. Another information that was announcing the change that was for coming.

In 2000, on having celebrated his first quarter of century in the Throne, the own King was admitting that from the beginning it had clearly that there could no be Monarchy without democracy. ' How?, he did not know it ', was adding at the time this King born in the exile and educated in Franco's Spain.
The commitment to reconcile the Spanish An education that from Estoril the Count of Barcelona monitored attentivly, his father, from whom don Juan Carlos inherited, according to the historian Javier Tusell, the commitment to reconcile the Spanish, a mission ' that the King always recognized and without which his historical significance is not understood '.

In 1975, don Juan Carlos does not provoke the enthusiasm of the people. He is perceived as a provisional King, as a young, high and fair monarch, on whose duration in the Throne jokes are done. The same one would comment little later to Santiago Carrillo, in full Transition, which, after having happened many years becoming the idiot, many people believed that he was.

Making the transition possible

Were times in which this methodical and tidy man, of affable mien and conciliator, firm, disciplined, intuitive and sensitive, this young man Príncipe that the left side was considering a 'dummy' and the monarchic ones a 'traitor' to his father, used of form discreet but decided to prepare the way that made possible the Transition.
' He should have appeased - wrote Tusell - the declarations of his father, to avoid the distrust of The Dun one, to attract the youngest reformists of the regime and to connect with the opposition, at the same time as he was explaining to the politicians of he was that one day there would be democracy in Spain, though he did not know how he would come near to it '

In 1969, after an interview with the Prince, married already a Greek Princess, Sofia, and father of three children, which was an ambassador at the time of the United States in Spain, Robert Hill, was writing a report for the Department of State in the one that was revealing that don Juan Carlos ' knows that the monarchy is not popular and that his task is to construct a viable and modern monarchy, with popular support '.
Hill was emphasizing his intelligence, and a certain naiveté, owed ' to his youth and to his lack of political practical experience ', but he was thinking that the Prince ' can survive or not to the tensions of the postfranquista Spain, but I am sure - he was writing - of that it tries to try, according to his to deal, to modernize the Spanish politics and, to being possible, governing the country '.
Seven years later, during the first trip of the Kings to the United States, the newspaper 'New York Times' was publishing an editorial with a significant holder: ' A king for the democracy '.
 
http://actualidad.terra.es/sociedad/articulo/juan_carlos_borbon_599613.htm

Two years were absent constitution in order that the Spanish were voting for the Constitution that still today is still in force, the same one that cut away the power of this King who, in Michael Roca's words, one of the parents of the Great Letter, ' is a wise and prudent combination between proximity and distance '. Social proximity and political distance, there specifies the writer and journalist Margarita Riviere.

The same Constitution that don Juan Carlos defended on February 23, 1981, after the attempt at one stroke of State, the night in which the left side of this country, the same one that in 1975 was predicting his 'briefness', was done juancarlista.

A Sevillian attorney who began then in politics and who managed to preside at the first socialistic Government of the young Spanish democracy, Felipe Gonzalez, would say some years later that ' what exists to national level, is a deep feeling of respect and admiration for the way in which the King of Spain fulfills his function '.

For another historian, Santos Juliá, ' the continuous risk, the past fears, the final relief, finished for surrounding with popular heat the grandson of Alfonso XIII, who only had felt cold when he trod for the first time on the kingdom that had belong to his grandfather '.

He was nine years old when still Infante went down the express of Lisbon that brought Madrid, in a trip that would be definitive and that was agreed between his father and Franc. It(he,she) began then what someone has been called the ' learning of the wait '.

A ' crowned republic '

From this November 22, 1975 up to today, the King of this ' crowned republic ' who is Spain, since the writer Javier Marías defines it, has not stopped repeating that he is in the service to the democratic Constitutional state ' and in the commitment with the freedoms dedicated in the Constitution where the monarchic institution reaches his more felt historical, current and future plenary session '.
Don Juan Carlos is a King without court, a frank man, of strong personality, whom it likes to surround with military men and diplomats to work, that understands the Monarchy as ' the first servidora of the general interests ' and that it has to be, as was saying to him his father, ' of all the Spanish '.

A constitutional monarch, traveler, sportsman, lover of the good table, of the cars and of the motorcycles, made keen on the photography, on the bulls and on the hunt, who ' is done to report and to influence without - and this is an almost the squaring of the circle - to make feel his weight ', as said the one who in 1976 was the minister of Foreign Affairs, Jose Maria de Areilza.

A King who spoke about democracy and human rights in the Argentina of the dictator Videla, who has visited settlements chabolistas and the big centers of world power, which has could console the victims of the terrorism, that he was in synagogues and mosques, which he has treated with the most powerful and with the humblest.
A King who is respected and admired in the whole world, specially in Latin America and in the Arabic countries, which he has been rewarded and applauded by the valor by the one that piloted the difficult singladura of the Transition, and who is the best image of Spain as modern and democratic country.

Today, with 67 years and a physicist that every day is alike more that of his(her,your) father, the Count of Barcelona, has just been a grandfather, for the seventh time, of a granddaughter, the Infanta Leonor, first-born of the Princes of Asturias, who guarantees the dynastic continuity and the future of the constitutional Monarchy for which so much he has fought in these thirty years.
 
Official photos on the occasion of 30 Anniversary of the Proclamation of the King Juan Carlos


"Casa de Su Majestad el Rey / Borja".


 
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lula said:
Official photos on the occasion of 30 Anniversary of the Proclamation of the King Juan Carlos


"Casa de Su Majestad el Rey / Borja".

Thanks for the pictures lula!

I love this (http://img428.imageshack.us/my.php?image=treinaniv01x9tp.jpg) picture in the King's office of Queen Sofia gazing off to the side with her hair wrapped up in a bandanna. I've seen a bigger version of this picture and the queen looks so peaceful and beautiful in it.
 
...JuAnItA... said:
What picture of Queen Sofia? :confused:
A small pic that is above the chair, just on the back of CP Felipe. Is a marvelous pic of Queen Sofia indeed :)
 
xicamaluca said:
A small pic that is above the chair, just on the back of CP Felipe. Is a marvelous pic of Queen Sofia indeed :)
Thanks! ;)
Alexandria (or someone that already saw a bigeer version of this picture), do you know where did you saw the bigger version of this picture?
 
Are these pics new? Taken for the anniversary? Pity that the King doesn't have any official photo with "una nueva haredera" on arms.
 
Pity that the King doesn't have any official photo with "una nueva haredera" on arms.
...JuAnItA... go here and click on the bigger link below one of pics:
http://www.casareal.es/casareal/treinaniv.html
Indeed lovely pic of Sofia, so... normal:D ! The King also has one pic with young Felipe in uniform and one of F&L from their engagement:) .
 
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LaChicaMadrilena said:
Pity that the King doesn't have any official photo with "una nueva haredera" on arms.
...JuAnItA... go here and click on the bigger link below one of pics:
http://www.casareal.es/casareal/treinaniv.htmlhttp://www.casareal.es/casareal/home.html

Yes the photos are new, they have placed them this very day in the web. I hope that we could have someone more, with some member more of the family. Probably this they are on Wednesday that they bring together for the receipt.
 
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On the third picture in the background we can notice that the Kings have in their garden a special place for grandchildren to play. Sooo cute!:)
 
i agree, chicamadrilena. it would have been lovely a photo of the king, felipe and leonor, three generations and one kind and two future king and queen. it's a pity.... it would have been a great opportunity to have a new photo of leonor, just as the king of norway posed with his son and his granddaughter in a session.

i guess that leonor won't be there this wednesday but there my be a chance that we may see her at the end, for example. it's obvious that felipe and letizia won't leave her at home (as letizia is taking very seriously the breast feeding times as they told her in the clinic) and may prefer to take her with them and to let her with a nanny in some other room in the palace. let's hope... hope is the last thing that can be lost :)
 
lovely... just lovely...
i hope they release different sets of pictures in more days to come.
maybe with the whole royal family, including la infanta leonor.

it's nice to see the king has different photos from his family on his office. i guess pictures of christina, elena, and their families maybe placed on the other side of the office.

i like the little fountain placed on the gardens of la zarzuela on the 3rd pic. it seems like a very homey and enjoyable environment to live in
 
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apparently letizia will be attending this wednesday to the reception as we expected: such a grand event! all the family needs to be there... :)

information from terra, confirmed by the palace to europress 'unless her obligations with breastfeeding will be at the same time and will obligue letizia to stay at home'.

they confirmed that leonor definetely won't be there, even if we don't see her. she will stay at the residence of the prince, because of her young age.

Doña Letizia retomará el miércoles su presencia en actos públicos con motivo de la recepción en el Palacio Real

La Princesa de Asturias, doña Letizia Ortiz, tiene previsto retomar su presencia en actos públicos el próximo miércoles en el Palacio Real con motivo de la recepción institucional que ofrecerá la Familia Real para conmemorar el trigésimo aniversario de la proclamación como Rey de Juan Carlos I, según informó un portavoz del Palacio de la Zarzuela a Europa Press.
Doña Letizia estará presente a las 19:30 horas en el Palacio Real 'salvo que sus obligaciones con la lactancia le coincidan y le obliguen a permanecer en su residencia' junto a la Infanta Leonor.
De confirmarse su participación en esta recepción, sería la primera asistencia a un acto de la esposa del Príncipe Felipe desde su salida de la Clínica Ruber el pasado 7 de noviembre.
Además, subrayó que está descartado que los Príncipes de Asturias puedan asistir a un acto de estas características con la Infanta Leonor debido a la corta edad de la recién nacida. Están invitadas las más altas autoridades de los poderes Ejecutivo, Legislativo y Judicial, así como todos los presidentes autonómicos.
Esta recepción en el Palacio Real será el último de los eventos relacionados con la efeméride de Su Majestad que se cumple oficialmente el 22 de este mes. Así, los Reyes don Juan Carlos y doña Sofía iniciaron hoy una visita oficial a las Islas Canarias, cuyo primer acto fue un encuentro con representantes institucionales y culturales de Arrecife, seguido de una visita a la Catedral de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria y a la Casa de Colón en esta ciudad canaria.
Tras ello, Sus Majestades harán entrega en el auditorio Alfredo Krauss de las Medallas de oro al mérito en las Bellas Artes que cada año concede el Ministerio de Cultura.
Ya en la jornada de mañana, inaugurarán el centro 'Magma, Arte y Congresos' en la Costa Adeje de Tenerife Sur y recibirán en audiencia a representantes del sector agrícola y pesquero de las Islas Canarias en un hotel tinerfeño.
En último lugar, los Reyes asistirán junto a las principales autoridades políticas del archipiélago al concierto en su honor que se celebrará en el Auditorio Príncipe Felipe de Tenerife que aún no conocen. El único acto que tendrán el miércoles 23 es la citada recepción institucional en el Palacio Real de Madrid. http://actualidad.terra.es/articulo/dona_letizia_palacio_real_606197.htm
 
excellent news, carlota!
i've missed seeing her for quite a while, and now we will get to see her.
i hope she won't cancel on the last minute.
will this be gala gown event?
 
purple_platinum said:
excellent news, carlota!
i've missed seeing her for quite a while, and now we will get to see her.
i hope she won't cancel on the last minute.
will this be gala gown event?
Actually isn't confirmed, so we don´t know yet if the will realy be there (i hope that she will :rolleyes: ).

As Carlota said, the article says that she might be there, if the breastfeeding hours doesn't match the reception. Also says that isn´t nothing confirmed. And if she appears, will be her 1st public appearence since the presetention of Leonor (and all that we already know :p )...
 
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On Wednesday the Royal Family will host a Institutional Reception to celebrate the 30th anniversary of King Juan Carlos' Enthronement.

I think that it's a 50/50 percent chance that we'll see Letizia there...
 
so the whole royal family would attend the event on wednesday?????
can't wait to see Letizia....miss her soo much...haha
 
I am curious what the Spaniards on this thread think about the article posted above that says the younger generation wants a republic? Is the current monarchy really tied up in the person of Juan Carlos? or can it survive his death? Also, do you think he will abdicate -- have previous Spanish monarchs abdicated or does the heir inherit upon the death of the monarch?

On a personal note, I was right outside the building where Juan Carlos was installed as monarch 30 years ago -- it seems like yesterday. I remember thinking that QS looked so much prettier in person than she had on television and the children were just enchanting...Felipe and Cristina in particular. It was a memorable day after the fears surrouding Franco's illness and death, and the uncertainty of what would happen. It was a pretty tense day in Madrid!
 
Emily said:
I am curious what the Spaniards on this thread think about the article posted above that says the younger generation wants a republic? Is the current monarchy really tied up in the person of Juan Carlos? or can it survive his death? Also, do you think he will abdicate -- have previous Spanish monarchs abdicated or does the heir inherit upon the death of the monarch?

I am going to try to give my opinion without making it very long.

On the youth and the Republic I believe that it is something normal, and an own opinion of the age and of having grown in absolute freedom. But up to 30 the conception that is had of the life, of the world and of the politics is in general a bit idealistic, there would be necessary to know that these people will think when they should mature.

To know what will happen with the history is impossible. The Monarchy, though it is parliamentary, is a bit opposite to the way for which the world goes, in Spain and in any other country. And to know what will happen in a future is impossible. In Spain always they remember a commentary of an Arabic king, who was saying that in a few years only they would remain the Kings of the cards and the Queen of England .... now many people say that probably not so at least the Queen of England .... the one who does know?
These great days remember that the King Juan Carlos was nicknamed by some " Brief one ", and that 30 years later continues there. To know what will happen in the future is impossible and incirto, and who knows the history of Spain in the S.XX thinks that everything can happen.

I do not believe that in the S.XXI there are monarchic countries in the western world. The Monarchies are if they are useful for the countries to those who serve. In Spain sometimes it is said that " of the evil less ", probably the Parliamentary Monarchy is not the ideal system, but if it works well, it will be kept. In spite of the critiques that could have the citizens, who sometimes are even a result of an ignorance of the institution, the Monarchy continues being one of the institutions most valued by the Spanish, over the Parliament and of the Spanish politicians.

On the abdication there are many opinions. There is the one who thinks that he must not abdicate, and there is the one who thinks that " to reach his work " he still has to choose the moment adapted to do it. I personally created that he will do it, but in a few years, it is necessary to look for the suitable moment. The Prince has that " the position to be gained ", nobody doubts that has a marvellous formation, but he has a difficult work. Be the successor of the current Kings with what they have meant for the history of Spain it is very complicated. The respect that the father has, the son will not inherit it, and will be necessary to see ' how it can be gained".

The history changes rapidly, and it is very difficult to know what will happen, the things will be seen day after day.
 
Anna_R said:
On Wednesday the Royal Family will host a Institutional Reception to celebrate the 30th anniversary of King Juan Carlos' Enthronement.

I think that it's a 50/50 percent chance that we'll see Letizia there...
CONCIERTO EN HONOR DE SS.MM. LOS REYES CON OCASIÓN DEL TRIGÉSIMO ANIVERSARIO DE LA PROCLAMACIÓN DE S.M. EL REY
Asiste con Su Majestad la Reina
Auditorio de Tenerife. Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Isn't Tenerife (in the canary islands) too far for letizia to travel especially that she's breastfeeding leonor? :confused:
 
nouwrein said:
Isn't Tenerife (in the canary islands) too far for letizia to travel especially that she's breastfeeding leonor? :confused:

At this concert only there will be present the Kings who are in a visit of two days in the Canary Isles. The receipt will be the 23rd in the Royal Palace of Madrid ;)
 
Btw, i just realized that the King entronment day is the same day that JFK was killed, Movember 22nd. Nothing to do one with the another, but i just remember. An historical coincidence ;)
 
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