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The historian narrates the trajectory of the monarch, being centered in the social climate of 1938, year of the birth of the King.AnalysisEve of KingsThe date was indicated although it happened inadvertent: 5 of January of 1938, eve of Kings in Spain and birth of a boy in Rome, that was called Juan Carlos de Borbón and Borbón. Slight mentions on the following day in the Roman press, absolute silence in the Spanish press of one and another zone.
Few people know that at those moments, two million Spaniards, the highest number of History, faced until death in the terrible winter of that year, the most frozen and windy of century XX the worse thing is than all of them did not know why they fought. They said antifascist when in the enemy it only formed a small group of intellectuals to those who the name of facists agreed.
Their enemies were called officially national, but they were fighting against another average nation. Neither in the rebellious press nor transmitters, nor of course in those of the Popular Front, the smaller news appeared the 7 of January on the birth of that boy.
Nevertheless, that Roman boy was destined to become the most important figure for the history of Spain in century XX and beginnings of the century XXI, that would become position of an impossible mission: to obtain that the survivors of those two million Spaniards, next to their children and their grandsons, coexisted in a common Spain, recovered, with the objective common to live and to let live, after to have buried in an enormous ditch of History to 300,000 deads, victims of hatred and its cause, the fear.
Pope Pío XI, to whom corresponded to baptize that Roman boy, did not dare so that they did not accuse to him of partisan; the Vatican still conserved diplomatic relations with the Spanish Republic, that really no longer existed: that was another thing. And it maintained semiclandestine relations with other Spain, the national call, by means of an apostolic delegate.
New born it left winning; he baptized the cardinal to him Eugene Pacelli, Secretary of State, that the following year would be one of the greatest Popes of history, with the name of Pío XII. That boy - today king Don Juan Carlos I enjoys already one pretends biographical glory. He only pretends.
Some biographical test with airs of Oxford the one of Charles Powell- is penetrating and useful. Other very spread - the one of Jose Luis de Vilallonga, Marquess of I do not know that ' - seems to me melonada; the author has spoken long with the King but a word of History does not know. Another author, in this spoiled case - professor Javier Tusell, q.e.p.d. - knows History but she has almost not spoken with the King.
There are other smaller, sometimes atrocious biographies - a King blow to blow, of tufo ETA -, other aggressive ones - Borbones masones and These Borbones wants to us to govern, of an unfaithful servant -, and other grotesque ones, like one been born in the North American fundamentalism that identifies to Don Juan Carlos with the Antichrist. Some moves by the opposite field and demonstrates that the King is really King of Jerusalem, not only by title, and the last piston rod of the House of David, that gave to origin to the dynasty merovingia.
With such antecedents I feel the pressing temptation more and more to mainly add me to that rutilante list of biographers, when memory that Don Juan Carlos, during ours first interview in 1972, said to me exactly: "I like your books because they do not have anything of lameculismo". Of course that just by to refer another conversation - in this case of six hours and on board of the yacht Isa V, in the bay of Palm, the year crucial of to 1977- explained the keys me of the Transition that then ran by the line of summits.
I do not know if I will want to have time for that biographical project, but desire to gather together it to undertake a history of the Transition that is had of foot and that inevitably will offer biographical chapters: from explaining the inexplicable regal mission entrusted to Manuel Prado and Columbus de Carvajal near Rumanian dictator Ceaucescu to the greeting to epistolar of the King to Santiago Cheek the same night in which a cowardly and antihistorical force demolished the last statue of Franc in Madrid. But now they entrust notes to me on the trajectory of the King until its oath as so and something with substance I must aim.
To Don Juan Carlos their mentors and the most complicated circumstances by which there were to cross robbed good part to him of their childhood and its adolescence. Likeable by borbónica nature, never he stopped being a sad prince. It did not include/understand the evident hostility between his father, Don Juan, and general Franco, but the story arrived to guess its causes and to be applied.
I appear between the historians for those who the deprived life of the princes is public life, conviction who do not share some authorities of la Real Academy of History, and thus are from boring (and empty) its libracos, a day I have them to detail.
The confrontation of groups to take control of the education of the prince, settled by the forceful one retired of the jesuitas "before the lamentable experiences that to us History offers" - wrote a general father -, principis offers a very flavorful elucidarium. With my friends Eugene Fertile valleys Latapie and Carlos Martinez of Fields (to that Pío Baroja, in its memories military, calls Duke of the Seo de Urgel equivocadamente, would be Duke of the Tower), I spoke and I intuited many things on the person and the formation of the prince.
Now I am studying very thorough masonería in its sources and have resonant cards on the masónicas approaches to the Spanish Real House in century XX. The books of Laureano Lopez Rolled, contrasted with my conversations with admiral White Carrero, are fundamental and during years I could discuss them with him in our frequent encounter.
Most serious he is than that sad prince, to who they considered like trick and others like hostage, had to surpass some transcendental moments of his completely single life. In order to alleviate his solitude he had, since they knew themselves, an exceptional woman: princess Sofía. To pound Urban has included/understood very well delicate, subtle and the even dangerous thing of that relation that is based mainly on the enormous sacrifice of Reina assumed by Spain, with success and pain that never we will be able to be thankful to him.
And we arrived at this. The provocations, on the brink of madness suicide, of president Rodriguez Zapatero. The socialist anticrossed one against the Catholic Church, that it has pushed against his will the own King until making him put the leg with the unfortunate comparison with Balduino of Belgium (and that consists that to me regate of Balduino when leaving Corona by hours seems to me that, regate infantile). The masónicas approaches, that have been very serious and still present/display points more than dark.
The irrational phobia against religious education. The contaminations of the right made feel inferior with the third Free Institution of Education, that seems to me in its present version more dangerous than the first and most threatening one than second.
The position of the King before these problems of bottom is comprometidísima. These days thorough study the reach of the moderating power that attributes to him to the Constitution and on which I fear serious attempts of cut, although that power saved to Spain the 23 of February of 1981. Meanwhile, we do not lose of Vista the historical-personal problems of the Transition in restricted sense: the integration of the socialism in the monarchic system, the problems of the flag and the flags, the title, not simply symbolic, of King Cato'lico.
' maricomplejines'
At the moment, a light torrent comes me from the hill of the Talarn, in front of the Non-commissioned officer school. Very dangerous Mr. Bono, on who I prepare a monographic study that will offer great surprises, allowed - it seems that Mr. Carod-Rovira or his minions took stones that cried out on the death by Spain.
Suddenly it is let speak of the subject, but somehow, with stones or an obvious plate, the death by Spain returns to shine in the stop. Then I decide to me that enormidad that approved Cortes with the complicity of maricomplejines of the PP: "the 18 of July were a facist military coup".
And a delegated horn, gentlemen. Many, and I trust that among them the King, we continued believing in which the bishops of Mr. Lopez Aguilar said: the 18 of July were a civic-military movement against a degraded Popular Front, that now - according to it seems wants to return. Against that Popular Front the Army did not rise, that in good part remained with him.
The 18 of July were not a facist military coup but a civic-military movement whose military element was formed not simply by people of uniform but by the youth of the Army, including a 90% of the young officials and the sergeant majors. Those that form in the Talarn.
Ricardo of the Cierva .