Calzame Las Alpargatas Don Carlos de Borbón Spanish King - Killing Liberals

After 38 years on the Spanish throne, Juan Carlos I de Borbón decided, at the age of 76, to abdicate and relinquish the throne to his son Felipe, Prince of Asturias.

1. Juan Carlos Alfonso Víctor María de Borbón y Borbón-Dos Sicilias, or Juan Carlos I, was born January 5, 1938, in Rome from the union of Don Juan, Count of Barcelona, and Doña María de las Mercedes de Borbón y Orleans, Princess of the two Sicilies, with whom he had four children: Pilar (1936), Juan Carlos, Margarita (1939) and Alfonso (1941).

2. Juan Carlos is the paternal grandson of Alfonso XIII and a member of the Capetian dynasty of the Bourbons, a lineage that has produced kings of France since Henri IV.

3. The young Juan Carlos spent the first four years of his childhood in Rome where the royal family had lived in exile since the proclamation of the Second Republic on April 14, 1931. In 1942, Don Juan, deposed from the throne, chose to move to Lausanne, Switzerland.