Article: Juan Carlos I

Juan Carlos I

Juan Carlos I (born 1938), proclaimed king of Spain on November 22, 1975, played an instrumental role in the transformation of his nation from a dictatorship to a constitutional monarchy.

Juan Carlos V í ctor Mar í a de Borb ó n y Borb ó n was born in the Anglo-American Hospital in Rome, Italy, on January 5, 1938. His grandfather, Alfonso XIII, had been king of Spain from 1902 to 1931, after which Spain became a republic. With the emergence of Francisco Franco's fascist dictatorship in 1939, the father of Juan Carlos, Don Juan de Borb ó n y Brattenberg, became a pretender to the Spanish throne and a hostile critic of Franco's regime, which endured until ...

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