King Juan Carlos will travel again to Sanxenxo, the destination of his two previous visits to Spain, on the last weekend of July to participate in the last test of the Spanish Cup of the 6mR class with the purpose of training for his participation , aboard the Rascal, in the world championship that will take place in August on the Isle of Wight (England). It will be his third trip to Spain since he decided to go into self-exile in Abu Dhabi on August 3, 2020 following the appearance of a series of economic and fiscal irregularities, which caused his public image to plummet.
The Sanxenxo regatta, which will take place between July 28 and 30, was scheduled for this weekend but the date has been changed so that the trip of King Juan Carlos does not coincide with the start of the electoral campaign. The previous two visits of the King’s father to Spain, although the expectation is decreasing in intensity, have caused controversy in public opinion and debates among the political class and, above all and unnecessarily, affect Zarzuela. After the fiasco of his first trip to Spain, in May 2022, when media attention and his own public display altered the recommendations for a private and discreet visit, King Juan Carlos took almost a year to schedule a second visit. to Sanxenxo that took place last April. On this occasion, he was barely seen entering and leaving the Sanxenxo yacht club, always in the car driven by his host, Pedro Campos. There were no stops, no answers, sometimes unintelligible, to questions from the media, as happened on his previous visit. Although he usually communicates his trips to Spain to the Zarzuela, the decision to return sporadically depends exclusively on him, as well as the rest of the trips from Abu Dhabi to other countries, according to the public statements that he himself signed about his decisions to settle. in the emirate and not reside in the Zarzuela.
The plan for this year, with the purpose of arriving prepared for the World Championship and revalidating the title obtained by the Bribón 6mR in previous races, was to return to Sanxenxo every month, between March and July, to train in the regattas of the Copa de Spain, but it was only in those scheduled for the month of April. It did not do so in March, nor in those scheduled for the month of May, because it coincided with the electoral campaign for the municipal and regional elections, nor in those scheduled for the first week of June, which were suspended due to a timely announcement of a storm. .
King Juan Carlos left Spain on August 3, 2020 with the intention of getting away from the controversy caused by the appearance of economic and fiscal irregularities and to reduce the pressure on Zarzuela. His intention was to return to Spain in a few months, but the start of investigations, both in Spain and in Switzerland, lengthened his stay in Abu Dhabi. After concluding the judicial processes, from which he emerged well off, he decided to establish his permanent residence, and fiscal, in the emirate, a matter that he publicly announced at the same time that he renounced residing, during his stays in Spain, in publicly owned dependencies.
In recent weeks, King Juan Carlos has traveled from Abu Dhabi to Amman to attend, together with Queen Sofía, the wedding of Prince Hussein of Jordan that took place on June 1, and two weeks later, he was in Geneva , again with Queen Sofía, to celebrate the graduation and majority of her granddaughter Irene Urdangarin, in a family reunion in which her daughters, Elena and Cristina and her grandchildren Urdangarín and Marichalar, as well as her still son-in-law Iñaki Urdangarin also participated .
Juan Carlos’ previous visit to Sanxenxo took place between April 19 and 26, when, in addition to participating in the previous Spanish Cup event (although bad weather left him grounded two of the three days planned), was also in Vitoria to undergo medical tests at the clinic of Dr. Eduardo Anitua, a renowned dentist who, together with his partner and colleague, the traumatologist Mikel Sánchez, are specialists in treatments with plasma rich in growth factors. On that occasion, the trip to Spain was preceded by a two-day stay in London, where King Juan Carlos, in addition to attending a dinner with a group of friends, witnessed the Champions League match that Real Madrid played against Chelsea in London at Stamford Bridge Stadium. The intention of the emeritus was also to hold a meeting with Carlos III, whose coronation was to take place days later, but the appointment did not take place.
