2023-04-19 05:00:00
Juan Carlos I arriving at the Chelsea stadium in London to attend the Real Madrid match, this Tuesday. EFE-TV | EFE
He is expected at Vigo airport this noon, he will be in Galicia until Sunday and will not meet his son
19 abr 2023 . Updated at 05:00 h.
After spending two days in London, King Emeritus Juan Carlos I returns to Galicia today. It is expected that he will arrive at Vigo airport at 12:00, where all the details have been finalized to receive the former head of state. Being in Galicia until Sunday and participating in some regattas aboard his boat, the Bribn, which is already prepared in Sanxenxo. Most likely, he can stay these days at the house of his friend Pedro Campos, also president of the Club Nautico.
This will be the second visit of the emeritus to Spain since he left the country in August 2020, heading to Abu Dhabi. The first, a year ago, also went to Galicia. On this occasion he is not expected to make other visits outside of Sanxenxo, as he did last year when he went to Madrid to see his son Felipe VI, or official acts. The Royal House has avoided commenting on this new trip and the Government has limited it to a private appointment.
The operation deployed at the Peinador airport will be similar to last year. On this occasion, the flight plan of the aircraft contracted to transport Juan Carlos I to Vigo has not been published on world air traffic monitoring portals, but airport sources indicate that 12:00 noon is the time horizon communicated for your aircraft to land on the runway. Although last-minute changes are not ruled out for security reasons or adaptation to the transfer of the previous monarch. As happened in the first visit last year, Peinador will be under greater security control than in other days and all its surface, sewers and spaces will be reviewed by members of the Civil Guard and National Police, with canine units for the detection of explosives. included.
Two o’clock in London
Juan Carlos I’s flight will come from London, a city where the emeritus has been resting and meeting friends for two days before arriving today in Sanxenxo, where he will take part in a regatta that will be held in the Galician town until the weekend.
The English press located the disgraced ex-king Juan Carlos of Spain, as he calls him, on Monday night, leaving a private club – a center with restricted access to members – before his supposed private lunch with King Carlos. [III del Reino Unido]according to the Daily Mail. This same medium, which attaches several images of the king emeritus, explains that on Monday he had dinner with a group of friends at Oswald’s, located in central London.
This would be the most exclusive of the private clubs in London, where personalities such as Queen Camila or Boris Johnson attend as members. Juan Carlos I was accompanied by two bodyguards, he wore a navy blue suit and a pink tie and waved to the cameras from the passenger seat of a high-end SUV. He was seen outside the club at 11pm (London time).
Likewise, the emeritus king went yesterday at half past six (local time) to Stamford Bridge, Chelsea’s stadium, in west London, to watch the match played by the English club against Real Madrid in the Champions League. He arrived in the vicinity of the stadium in a black SUV after the Real Madrid bus and at the same time as the president of the Madrid club, Florentino Pérez, with whom he was not seen greeting. Dressed in a dark suit and helped by his bodyguards, Juan Carlos I entered the VIP room at the Chelsea pitch, where he attended the second leg of the Champions League quarterfinals.
Who are Pedro Campos and Cristina Franze, hosts of the emeritus king in Sanxenxo?
Nieves D. Amil
El Bribn
Sanxenxo is just a few hours away from once again becoming the spotlight for the entire country, and the media uproar is undeniable. The Nautical that bears his name yesterday morning rushed the last details and organized a security meeting so there would be no surprises.
Juan Carlos I comes with the excuse of competing in a 6 meter class regatta. At 85 years old, sailing is still his weakness, and his passion. He was one all his life and those who know him on board recognize that he has a hand with the rod. The Rascal he will be taking on board next Saturday is a ship made for him. Thought for and so that only he can go to the cane.
Mayor Telmo Martín: The success of Sanxenxo depends on discretion
The mayor of Sanxenxo, the popular Telmo Martín, yesterday justified the institutional silence on the details of the visit of Juan Carlos I, which is scheduled for this afternoon. The success of Sanxenxo depends on discretion, he affirmed. Martín pointed out that many important people from the world of culture, sport and business chose Sanxenxo as a destination due to the discretion that the City Council always shows. As for the emeritus monarch, the alderman stressed: If King Juan Carlos wants to come here many times, he is welcome. It suits us very well. What do you want me to tell you! If we live from that! S dodged the question of whether he had spoken with Juan Carlos I or whether he knew the details of the visit.
Information made with contributions from Carlos Punzn and Nieves Amil.
This was the first trip of Juan Carlos I to Sanxenxo, in May 2022, after his departure to Abu Dhabi
eleven months later, Juan Carlos I go back to Sanxenxo. He plans to travel to the municipality of Pontevedra next week, between April 19 and 23, to reunite with his regatta friends. The same reason, to enjoy a sailing competition, took him into May 2022 to opt for this destination for your return to Spain after almost two years living in Abu Dhabi, where he left in 2020 peppered by the scandals of his irregular payments abroad. This was his first stay in Galiciamarked by media expectation, after his exile to the United Arab Emirates.
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