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May 2, 2004
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Juan Carlos:

A People's King

by Paul Preston

HarperCollins, pounds 25, 614 pp

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IN THE mid-Seventies, we were all scratching our heads wondering how to change our politics for the better. Spain offered what seemed an anachronistic contribution: the restoration of the Bourbons. How people laughed! The Daily Telegraph's correspondent in Madrid was especially scornful. The King concerned would surely be known to history as Juan the Shortlived (Juan le Bref).

But Juan Carlos has now been on the throne for nearly 30 years. He has been, as a Spanish weekly once put it, the motor of democracy, and the most successful Spanish king at least since Charles III ...

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