The good weekend of King Juan Carlos in the Formula E races of Saudi Arabia with his friends from the Gulf

• King Juan Carlos The place of King Emeritus is neither there nor expected in Spain

King

has enjoyed a

Devoted to one of his great hobbies, car racing, and well surrounded by his friends from the Gulf.

And it is that the father of Felipe VI, who turns 55 this Monday, has been one of the

at the E-Prix Diriyah I, held in

-capital of Saudi Arabia-, the second race of the 2023 season of the

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The meeting was attended by countless members of

which rules the Desert Kingdom with an iron fist, including its strong man, the heir and current Prime Minister

who is leaving behind the stage of a certain ostracism he tried to submit to him by the West for his alleged involvement in the murder in Istanbul of journalist

The reconfiguration of

to a large extent caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, has made all the main Western leaders, including US President Joe Biden, hold their noses and are immersed in a

Mr money is a powerful gentleman.

The Saudi heir maintains, like almost all members of the House of Saud, a

In the midst of the global uproar over Khashoggi's death, the emeritus did not hesitate to be the first European leader to

It was in November 2018, when our former head of state went to Abu Dhabi to see the Formula 1 Grand Prix.

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In addition to Don Juan Carlos and Bin Salman, attended the race last Saturday, the billionaire

, the richest man in Saudi Arabia;

Prince

;

the

Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani -who precisely shared the photos in which the Emeritus is seen on his official Twitter-;

the

;

the Minister of Sports of Oman and the heir to Jordan

-who is getting married next June in the royal wedding of the year-, among others.

Also figures from other social spheres, such as one of the two leading male actors in

,

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And who, of course, has been delighted to have met in Riyadh all weekend is

son-in-law of former president José María Aznar,

a project in which he has been so supported by the Saudi princes.

The photographs are the first since

for the funeral and burial of Constantine II, the last king of the Hellenes, brother of Queen Sofía.

In Tatoi

suffered by the Emeritus was very evident.

And, in fact, the images on the Diriyah circuit show a Don Juan Carlos who

while the other guests of the Gulf royalty chat in front of them standing.

Don Juan Carlos, together with Queen Sofía, at the funeral of Constantine of Greece.GTRES

It is also the first image of Juan Carlos I since EL MUNDO announced exclusively that he has begun the procedures to establish his tax residence in the United Arab Emirates, which confirms that, as we have published in LOC, the father of Felipe VI has no will to return to live in Spain and, furthermore, it represents a delicate step towards the

while the debate grows about

and where he gets as much as he stands out from, that is, how he pays for his very high train of life.

It does not seem as boring or as lonely as it is made to believe, and that would be the reasons that have led the Nobel Prize for Literature, Vargas Llosa, to invite the Emeritus to the act of his admission to the French Academy, on February 9.

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