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An old man walks helped by two men on a boardwalk.

Unable to stand upright, the gesture shows the effort of someone who

finds it increasingly difficult

to walk

.

It is Don Juan Carlos, who moves away from the port of the island of Yas, in Abo Dhabi, helped by two escorts.

The image was taken by a tourist, it was broadcast by the 'Viva la vida' program and has gone through all the newsrooms.

It is the first snapshot of Felipe VI's father in the country that has welcomed him since August and is, without a doubt, the image of

a fragile old man

who has not liked it to transcend.

King Juan Carlos celebrates

his 83rd birthday

on January 5, Three Kings Eve

.

A difficult anniversary, which he hoped to celebrate in Spain and which he will celebrate in Abu Dhabi alone.

None of his children will come

to blow the candles with him and his return to Madrid in the near future is, for the moment, quite far.

It might seem that this is the blackest birthday of the King Father, however, there have been several years whose celebration has been clouded by the future of the family.

In 1992, Don Juan Carlos

spent his birthday convalescing.

The King had left after Christmas to ski to Baqueira, like every year.

But on the 28th, when they were heading to the chairlift to return home, a skier collided with him,

causing a knee injury

that forced the former Monarch to undergo surgery.

Don Juan Carlos celebrated New Year's Eve at the hospital and his birthday, convalescing.

Don Juan Carlos buried his mother on his birthday in 2000CUÉLLAR

Eight years later, to welcome the new century

, the Royal Family went to La Mareta.

María de las Mercedes had asked her son to organize everything so that they would spend New Year's Eve together and Don Juan Carlos arranged it that way.

The infantas Pilar and Margarita were also there with their respective children.

They arrived on December 29 on the island, Tenerife, and wanted to return on the eve of Kings.

However,

Doña María died suddenly,

due to a cardiorespiratory arrest, on January 2, so the King suspended any type of birthday celebration.

Something similar happened in 2020. Infanta Doña Pilar was admitted to the hospital on the birthday of Don Juan Carlos.

A year ago the doctors had diagnosed

the Duchess of Badajoz

with colon cancer

and that admission, caused by pneumonia, was the end of the life of the infanta, who finally died on January 8.

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