Marina Pina

Updated Monday, March 18, 2024-9:28 p.m.

  • Royal House Juan Carlos I leaves Sanxenxo after his first visit this year to Galicia

  • 'Royals' Juan Carlos I, increasingly closer to Geneva and less in the Emirates

King Juan Carlos I left Sanxenxo on Sunday afternoon.

Felipe VI's father traveled by car to Vigo and there he took a private plane to Geneva.

For some time now, the Swiss city has become the origin and destination of his trips to Spain

.

This made us think that perhaps the Emeritus was considering changing his tax residence after three and a half years living in Abu Dhabi.

However, as EL MUNDO has confirmed, the father of the Head of State does not plan any move nor has he considered settling permanently in Geneva.

"Juan Carlos I is a free citizen, and he travels freely around the world, where he has many friends," explains one of those people who have remained faithful to the King, and whom Don Juan Carlos himself has authorized to speak with this newspaper. .

"At no time has he considered or talked about moving from Abu Dhabi

," he insists.

Although he recognizes that, indeed, he spends more and more time in Geneva.

There, the person consulted recalls, "he has a daughter and numerous friends, as he also has them in Spain, France or the United Kingdom," he lists.

But this is not the reason why the Emeritus travels to Geneva on each trip, but rather he responds to a much more practical question: his works in his house in his emirate.

As explained by a second source consulted, and also authorized by the former Head of State for 38 years,

"they have done some renovation work in his house in Abu Dhabi."

Upon arriving in Abu Dhabi on August 3, 2020, Juan Carlos I settled into the Emirates Palace hotel.

It is a five-star accommodation where the Emeritus felt comfortable during the first months of his stay in the country, when he planned to return to Spain for Christmas.

However, when he became aware of the situation and decided to permanently establish his residence there, Don Juan Carlos looked for a house to live in.

So, the Al Nayhan family, who is dedicated to entertaining his guest, focused on finding a house for him.

They located him on the Zaya Nurai island where Juan Carlos I has Abdul Raman El Assir as a neighbor, the Hispanic Lebanese arms dealer whom he often sees and with whom he has maintained a close friendship for decades.

In fact,

the Emeritus was the guest of honor at Khali El Assir's wedding.

At first there was talk of Al Bateen, but the emeritus lives in Zaya Nurai, whose house appeared on the cover of the magazine

Hello!

after Juan Carlos I provided the photographs of his birthday celebration.

But in these three years residing in the house, Don Juan Carlos

realized that the house needed a small renovation

to adapt to his needs and also certain repairs that would be the responsibility of the builder of the house.

Thus, as they explain, they have adapted it more to their mobility problems.

The works lasted several weeks but are now complete.

For the Zarzuela Palace, what remains in force is what Juan Carlos I conveyed to his son in March, when he informed her that his tax residence was set in Abu Dhabi and that it was his intention to organize his life. private with discretion.

Don Juan Carlos issued a final statement last October after the filing of the court case with Corinna Larsen where he saw himself enabled to move around the world more freely.