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King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofia.
The King's full name is Juan Alfonso Carlos V铆ctor Mar铆a de Borb贸n y Borb贸n-Dos Sicilias
His full title is King of Spain, King of Castile, King of Le贸n, King of Aragon, King of the Two Sicilies, King of Jerusalem, King of Navarre, King of Granada, King of Toledo, King of Valencia, King of Galicia, King of Sardinia, King of Cordoba, King of Corsica, King of Murcia, King of Jaen, King of Algeciras, King of the Canary Islands, King of the Philippine Islands, King of the Spanish East and West Indies and of the Islands and Mainland of the Ocean Sea, Archduke of Austria, Duke of Burgundy, Duke of Brabant, Duke of Milan, Duke of Athens and Neopatria, Count of Habsburg, Count of Flanders, Count of Tyrol, Count of Roussillon, Count of Barcelona, Lord of Biscay, Lord of Molina, General Captain of the Royal Armed Forces and its Supreme Commander.
The Queens full name is Sophia Margarita Victoria Frederika. She is of the family of Slesvig-Holsten-S酶nderborg-Lyksborg which is a branch of the House of Oldenburg. |
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Juan Carlos I, King of Spain (baptized as Juan Alfonso Carlos V铆ctor Mar铆a de Borb贸n y Borb贸n-Dos Sicilias) was born on January 5, 1938 in Rome and is the reigning King of Spain .
His name, when rarely anglicised, is rendered as John Alphonse Charles Victor Maria of Bourbon (and Bourbon-Two Sicilies). He was given these names after his father (Juan de Borbon), grandfather (Alfonso XIII) and maternal grandfather (Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies).
Juan Carlos' titles include that of King of Jerusalem, as successor to the royal family of Naples. He is also a direct descendant of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom through his grandmother, Victoria Eugenie; of Louis XIV of France through the House of Bourbon; of the Emperor Charles V, who belonged to the Habsburg dynasty of the Holy Roman Empire; of the House of Savoy of Italy; etc.
Juan Carlos was married in Athens on 14 May 1962, to HRH Princess Sophia of Greece and Denmark, daughter of King Paul. She was Greek Orthodox but converted to Roman Catholicism in order to become Spain's Queen. They had two daughters, Elena and Cristina, and a son, the heir apparent, Felipe. |
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Who cares? He was Franco's hand-picked choice.
隆Viva la Rep煤blica! |
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king of Juan Carlos
His Majesty the King was born on 5 January 1938 in Rome where the Royal Family was living, having had to leave Spain when the Republic was proclaimed in 1931. His parents were Juan de Borbon y Battenberg, Count of Barcelona and Head of the Spanish Royal Household since his father, King Alfonso XIII, relinquished this status, and Maria de las Mercedes de Borbon y Orleans.
His education
In 1954 he completed his secondary education at San Isidro School in Madrid and then went on to study at the Military Academies and Colleges of the Army, the Navy and the Air Force reaching the rank of Officer. During that period, he went to sea as a midshipman on the "Juan Sebastian Elcano" training ship, and also qualified as a military pilot. He completed his education from 1960 to 1961 at the Complutense University, Madrid, where he studied constitutional and international law, economics and taxation.
On 14 May 1962, in Athens, he married HRH Princess Sofia of Greece, the eldest daughter of King Paul I and Queen Federica. After their honeymoon, the Prince and Princess went to live at La Zarzuela Palace just outside Madrid which is still their residence today. Their first daughter, HRH the Infanta Elena, was born in 1963, followed two years later by HRH the Infanta Cristina and in 1968 by HRH Prince Felipe.
After his designation as successor to the Head of State in 1969, he embarked on a series of official activities, touring Spain and visiting many foreign countries.
Queen Sofia
Her Majesty Queen Sofia was born in Athens on 2 November 1938, the first child of King Paul I and Queen Federica of Greece. Her family belongs to one of Europe鈥檚 oldest Royal Households.
She spent part of her childhood in Egypt and South Africa because her family was forced into exile during the Second World War. She returned to her homeland in 1946, completed her secondary education in the Schloss Salem boarding school in Germany and then returned to Greece where she specialised in childcare, music and archaeology. She was a reserve member of the Greek sailing team at the Olympic Games held in Rome in 1960.
On 14 May 1962, she married Prince Juan Carlos de Borbon y Borbon, in Athens. They have three children: the Infanta Elena, born on 20 December 1963; the Infanta Cristina, born on 13 June 1965, and Prince Felipe, born on 30 January 1968. They have seven grandchildren: Leonor de Borb贸n Ortiz, the daughter of the Prince and the Princess of Asturias, Felipe and Victoria de Marichalar y de Borb贸n, the children of the Infanta Elena and her husband, Jaime de Marichalar, the Duke and Duchess of Lugo; and Juan, Pablo, Miguel and Irene Urdangarin y de Borb贸n, the children of the Infanta Cristina and her husband, I帽aki Urdangarin, the Duke and Duchess of Palma de Mallorca. |
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S.A.R. Rey Don Juan Carlos I
S.A.R. Do帽a Sofia
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