on 15/10/2023, 19:37:44, in reply to "Re: Corinna’s inconsistency of proposals and problems with clarity"
Of all the points you mention, except 3 and 9 (well, that’s not a point, but an opinion) happened since the beginning of his reign and nobody said anything, even if it was public knowledge.
A book I will buy. The title: “everybody knew about it”. Yes, and now many people “rending his garments”. So many fariseics around. And leaving apart the political use of the situation.
https://www.esferalibros.com/libros/todos-los-sabian/
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Manuel, if one does the math, the latter part of JC’s reign began circa 1995. According to a 2005 survey in El Mundo, 77.5% of Spaniards rated Juan Carlos as "good or very good." So clearly it was in the very latter part of his reign that the rapid accumulation of negative reputations I mentioned finally caught up with the King:
(1) greedy, reckless and unstable person
(2) beneficiary of Saudi “gifts” of many millions
(3) dispenser of “opaque” credit cards via a generous Mexican
(4) tax evader
(5) influence peddler
(6) serial philanderer (long known flaw but previously tolerated)
(7) tone-deaf elephant hunter
(8) hypocritical “honorary president” of the World Wildlife Federation
(9) man who left his Queen and his son & daughter-in-law to navigate the tarnished monarchy’s future and live henceforth in “damage control” mode. The facts of JC’s splendid decades were thus overshadowed. History shows that the reputations of people who make their awful mistakes when young & less wise can usually recover if they go on to improve themselves. But the reputations of people who surprise us by “going bad” when they are older (and presumably wiser!) never seem to recover completely.
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