The emeritus king, Juan Carlos I of Borbón, father of the current monarch Felipe VI, has written in his memoirs that he is the “only Spaniard who does not receive a pension after almost 40 years of service.” With these words, which appear in the book ‘Reconciliation. Memoirs. Juan Carlos I of Spain‘, which went on sale in France on November 5, the person who occupied the throne from 1975 to 2014 refers to the retirement pension that It pays Social Security to about 6.6 million people.
When accessing the retirement pension, it must be taken into account that the established requirements must be met, which does not guarantees 100% of the benefit. Depending on the modality and conditions of each regime, the access requirements change, according to Social Security.
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In this book, which will be sold in Spain in December, he confesses that throughout his life he has made important mistakes, as published by various media, including the BBC. One of them is to accept a ‘gift’ of 100 million dollars from the king of Saudi Arabia. Now he is spending a few days in Sanxenxo (Galicia) where he enjoys his favorite sport: sailing.
It has been the diary Le Monde who has advanced some of the chapters of a book that promises to be controversial. He pointed out that he has been surrounded by a “malicious environment” since he has trusted some businessmen “with few scruples” and that he has been “in the middle of a financial mess,” as the newspaper reported. Public.
His beginnings as King of Spain
The emeritus also tells of his relationship with the dictator Francisco Franco and the coup d’état, “one day he called me at the office and I didn’t know anything, he told me bluntly: I am going to name you successor as king, do you accept?” He admits that he was shocked, and did not know what to say. “I asked him if he would give me time to think about it, and he was waiting for my answer, he was against a rock and a hard place, silence reigned, I only heard my breathing.”
And he said yes, “did I have any other option?” He also explains what he felt when the failed coup d’état occurred, “I will always remember it, and I think so will all Spaniards. I have doubts about how the events developed and about the involvement of some. The truth is that the military tried with weapons to outwit the young Spanish democracy, which was my work, and I could not tolerate it.”