King Juan Carlos reappears two days before his official retirement

At 81, the eminent king of Spain, Don Juan Carlos de Borbón announced his retirement from public life. In the last hours, however, it has been Enjoy a bullfight in Madrid and even showed a good mood.

Smiling and surrounded by friends, the father of King Felipe I VU went to the sales arena and monopolized the attention. He spent a pleasant evening there, in what is already a clbadic for him, since he never loses the bullfights of the fair of San Isidro.

On May 27, Juan Carlos announced that he was withdrawing from public life. In a letter to his son, he expressed "willingness and desire to stop developing institutional activities and to complete its withdrawal from public life. "This will come to fruition on June 2, which coincides with the 5th anniversary of his abdication.

This decision implies that your Majesty will not have the obligation to appear in official acts or respond to the Crown; and every participation on your part will only be of your own free will.

Since his abdication to the throne in the last five years Juan Carlos decided to keep a low profile and few public events attended. According to anonymous sources of the inner circle of the Spanish crown, the withdrawal is mainly due to "An accumulation of personal items added to the lack of consideration on the part of his son and daughter-in-law Letizia". This same person added: "If you look at his activities, he has had five official acts in 2019. Do you think anyone will notice that this is not on the agenda?" In fact, he leaves because he has hardly any agenda. "

On the other hand, the same source revealed that the King's health is not the cause of his definitive retirement. Recall that in March of this year, he had been seen at the fair in San Isidro with a bruise in his left eye, which would be attributed later to a minor intervention, he was suffering from skin cancer. "Although it is quite scary with the subject of the disease … health has not been a reason", says the parent of the royal family.