Juan Carlos
Date Submitted: 12/06/2002 14:13:38
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 1 pages (217 words)
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 1 pages (217 words)
Juan Carlos Report
Juan Carlos I, the current king of Spain, was crowned on November 22, 1975. The crowning of Juan Carlos restored democracy to Spain after the dictatorship of Francisco Franco.
Juan Carlos was born in 1938 in Rome. In 1947 Franco announced that Spain was a kingdom and that he had decided that Juan Carlos should one day be king. (He is a grandson of King Alfonso XIII, who had been forced into exile in 1931.) The future …
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…Literally millions of people were fallowing a part of the army, which had kidnapped many government officials in order to overthrow the Democracy. The King appeared on Spanish National TV in his General Captain military uniform, and spoke out against the “coup”. Hours later, the coup’s plan failed. This story shows how Juan Carlos saved democracy.
I had no prior knowledge of Juan Carlos I, but he proved to be a very interesting person.
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