Juan Carlos

Juan Carlos I (Spanish: [xwaŋˈkaɾlos];[a] Juan Carlos Alfonso Víctor María de Borbón y Borbón-Dos Sicilias, born 5 January 1938) is a member of the Spanish royal family who reigned as King of Spain, from 1975 until his abdication in 2014.\n', '

Juan Carlos is the grandson of Alfonso XIII, the last king of Spain before the abolition of the monarchy in 1931 and the subsequent declaration of the Second Spanish Republic. Juan Carlos was born in Rome, Italy, during his family\'s exile. Generalísimo Francisco Franco, the Spanish dictator who initiated the civil war by means of a coup d\'état against the constitutional republic in 1936, took over the government of Spain after his victory in the Spanish Civil War in 1939, and in 1947 Spain\'s status as a monarchy was affirmed and a law was passed allowing Franco to choose his successor. Juan Carlos\'s father, Juan, was the fourth child of Alfon…