"Reconciliation" (2024): Memoirs of King Juan Carlos I

[An Ard Ri]

King Juan Carlos wants to move forward with the project. He must be trying to clean up his image with this book and the court cases.

I think its a little too late for him to salvage his reputation and he should stay out of sight incase there are any more skeletons in his closet!

 

[Toledo]

The former king is desperate to clean up his bad press, that he is solely responsible for, because he probably feels the end is coming soon as his age and conditions catch up with his health.

As a Spaniard abroad since the 1980s, I stopped caring for him after the trip to Botswana set up by his mistress to kill poor elephants for photo ops next to their lifeless bodies. I'm glad he rescued us from Franco and its supporters twice, but as the father figure of our nation I would have preferred his well-known scandals had stopped decades ago. He became arrogant and almost destroyed everything he built, and Felipe inherited this mess.

That book will probably be excuses and more excuses with absolutely no acknowledgement of his behavior, or the children born out of other women, his infidelities toward the queen, his money schemes. Etc.
There's no digital ink that can cover that up.

 

[Hans-Rickard]

I look forward to the book (if it will be distributed in english).

Not that i have much sympathy for the man but he is an interesting figure in european royal history and i’m curious what he will write… Especially about his days as Franco’s heir and the early days of his kingship… And ofcourse about the ”intriguing” (in lack of a better word) marriage to his wife

 

[An Ard Ri]

Its now reported that Reconciliation will be released in November 2025!
La fecha y todos los detalles de las esperadas memorias del rey Juan Carlos: "Tengo la sensación de que me están robando mi historia"

 

[Duke of Marmalade]

This will be interesting for sure. We'll see if he sticks to the historical part only and does not interfere with the reign of his son, by spilling some juicy family secrets.

 

[An Ard Ri]

This will be interesting for sure. We'll see if he sticks to the historical part only and does not interfere with the reign of his son, by spilling some juicy family secrets.

I'm still of the mind that this project should have been shelved and I fear Don Juan Carlos may have one too many skeletons in his closet!

 

[Blog Real]

I highlight this part of today's article by Vanitatis about the book of King Juan Carlos:

'Reconciliation' chronicles in detail "the private side of a public life." It's a memoir "rich in anecdotes," the article notes. To this end, King Juan Carlos enlisted the help of Debray, who even moved to Abu Dhabi with his family for a time. She shaped Juan Carlos's writings, and he also enlisted the help of friends and family. However, we can confirm from this medium that there are episodes of his life that don't appear, such as his relationship with Bárbara Rey, which has recently grabbed so many headlines. That story doesn't feature a single line in King Juan Carlos's memoirs, as highly reliable sources have informed Vanitatis.

Última hora | Reconciliación, las memorias de Juan Carlos I, a punto: "No tengo derecho a llorar"

Planeta confirma la información de Vanitatis y envía una nota de prensa para anunciar las memorias del padre del Rey, "un acontecimiento histórico"

www.vanitatis.elconfidencial.com

It certainly won't be a controversial book and it was written with great care to avoid controversy. But I'm curious to read the book!

 

[Duke of Marmalade]

Well, I would not expect him to list every lover he had outside marriage but if he leaves out Corinna for example, who has been key to his downfall ... nobody is interested in some boring sugarcoated memoir about anectodes with people in the prime of his life as King who are likely to be dead already and cant comment anymore ... If his aim was to come clean, it goes both ways.

 

[Blog Real]

Well, I would not expect him to list every lover he had outside marriage but if he leaves out Corinna for example, who has been key to his downfall ... nobody is interested in some boring sugarcoated memoir about anectodes with people in the prime of his life as King who are likely to be dead already and cant comment anymore ... If his aim was to come clean, it goes both ways.

Obviously King Juan Carlos will not talk about lovers in the book. I think this book will be an account of his childhood, adolescence, his path to the throne, his marriage and how he met Sofia, the birth of his children, his relationship with his sisters and the death of his brother, the moments he considers most important in his life, his exile in the United Arab Emirates and how he would like to be remembered, and probably the theme of death.

 

[maria-olivia]

I think he will be grateful to his Father the Count of Barcelone who was the real Bourbon Hair and not General Franco's Heir.

 

[Blog Real]

Laurence Debray, a French-Venezuelan historian and writer who helped write the memoirs of King Juan Carlos, gave an interview to ¡HOLA!. The article also includes previously unpublished photos.

Adelanto de la entrevista en ¡HOLA! de Laurence Debray sobre el libro del rey Juan Carlos: “Reconoce sus errores. Pero también habla de sus logros”

"Es un libro sincero y honesto. Se entrega. Reconoce sus errores, pero también sus logros", nos dice la biógrafa del soberano acerca de ‘Reconciliación’

www.hola.com

 

[Somebody]

The current plan is for the book to be published both in Spanish and French on November 12, 2025. The book was written in French (and apparently translated to Spanish). The author lived in Abu Dhabi for two years to be able to work with Juan Carlos on a daily basis.