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King Don Juan Carlos is already on his way to Abu Dhabi after a long and tense meeting with his son Felipe VI.

The King's father stayed 11 hours in what was his home for more than 50 years.

As Zarzuela reported in a statement sent 20 minutes after Don Juan Carlos left the residence, after nine at night, there was "a long time of conversation" which was followed by a family lunch.

Don Felipe and Don Juan Carlos met behind closed doors for several hours, in a private chat in which the son spoke to the father first in family terms and then as Head of State.

Because Felipe VI appealed to loyalty to the Crown to transfer the former Monarch that only in this way can they protect the institution and the legacy of the 39 years of Don Juan Carlos.

A legacy that the father put in trouble due to his personal actions, first after that fall in Botswana, which revealed the presence of Corinna in his life, and then after the investigations that made public the gifts received for years by Juan Carlos I

Felipe VI explained to his father the damage caused to the Crown by all the acts of Don Juan Carlos and what has been known in these two years.

Although the Prosecutor's Office filed the proceedings against the Emeritus, his report was devastating with the acts of Don Juan Carlos.

In addition, at this time the desire of the father of Felipe VI to return to Spain, leaked by several of his friends, has polarized the monarchists, who, instead of focusing on the Institution, supported the father or the son.

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The last event that has bothered the Crown has been how this first visit of Don Juan Carlos to Spain has developed.

The House was counting on Felipe VI's father to stick to the statement he sent on March 5, in which he expressed "his decision to organize his personal life and his place of residence in areas of a private nature", something that contrasts with the way in which his trip to Sanxenxo was organized, with posing for the press and an expectation that Zarzuela did not expect.

This last fact was also exposed by Don Felipe, who had the firm will to act as Head of State so that his father would understand his commitment to save the Crown and protect and dignify the inherited legacy.

The meeting became tense at that moment, in which the King's father repeated the reasons that led him to return to Spain through Sanxenxo.

Reasons related to the private conversation that Felipe VI and Juan Carlos I had a week ago, when the son traveled to Abu Dhabi to offer condolences for the death of the emir and spoke with his father by phone when he was already leaving the city in the that Don Juan Carlos lives.

Once the meeting between father and son was over, the most emotional moment of the day took place.

Don Juan Carlos was finally able to meet with Queen Doña Sofía, although keeping a safe distance, since his wife tested positive for covid after the trip to Miami and wore a mask at all times.

Despite everything, the King's mother attended a lunch with the most intimate family.

They were, in addition to the Kings, Don Juan Carlos and Doña Sofía, the Infanta Sofía, the Infanta Elena with her children and the Infanta Margarita with Carlos Zurita.

There was no member of the Urdangarin family, since the only one who lives in Madrid, Juan, is in India doing a volunteer job.

His mother, the Infanta Cristina, is also outside of Spain.

As confirmed by this medium, María Zurita would have wanted to see King Juan Carlos,

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Nor was any of the five children of the Infanta Pilar present.

Don Juan Carlos, who arrived in Abu Dhabi at dawn after an eight-hour flight, plans to return to Spain for the Sailing World Championship to be held in Sanxenxo (June 10-18).

Facing this new trip, Zarzuela once again recalled in the statement what the King's father said on March 5: "Don Juan Carlos expressed, first of all, his desire to establish his place of residence permanently and stable in Abu Dhabi for personal reasons;

and, secondly, his decision to organize his personal life and his place of residence in areas of a private nature, both during his visits and if in the future he were to reside in Spain again, in order to continue enjoying the greatest privacy possible ».

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