Carlos I Brandy de Jerez, Solera Gran Reserva in Gift Box, 70 cl (1 bottle)

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Schwarzer Adler-orden", Königlich Preussische Ordensliste (in German), vol.1, Berlin, 1886, p. 9 {{ citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link) A woman known as Maria Pia of Saxe-Coburg and Braganza [9] [10] claimed to be the illegitimate daughter of King Carlos I of Portugal with Maria Amélia Laredó e Murça. Maria Pia claimed that King Carlos I legitimized her through a royal decree and placed her in the line of succession with the same rights and honours as the legitimately-born princes of Portugal; [ clarification needed] however, no undisputed evidence was presented to demonstrate this, and the king did not, constitutionally, have the personal authority to do so. Maria Pia's paternity was never proven and her claim not widely accepted. Jaime de Orleans-Borbón: El ingeniero en la sombra de los negocios de Juan Carlos I". Elcierre. 17 June 2020. Matthew Campbell, Juan Carlos: with a final olé, Spain's King of Shame limps out of spotlight, The Sunday Times, 2 June 2019 Juan Carlos was married on 14 May 1962, to Princess Sophia of Greece and Denmark, daughter of King Paul of Greece, firstly in a Roman Catholic ceremony at the Church of St. Denis, followed by a Greek Orthodox ceremony at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens. She converted from Greek Orthodoxy to Roman Catholicism. Together, they have two daughters and one son:

a b c Javier Díaz (5 January 2019). "29-3-1956: El día más triste en la vida de don Juan Carlos". Vanitatis (in Spanish). El Confidencial. Real y distinguida orden de Carlos III", Guía Oficial de España (in Spanish), 1908, p.156 , retrieved 15 December 2019 The reign in Spain of King Juan Carlos". TheWhig.com. The Kingston Whig-Standard . Retrieved 3 June 2014. uan Carlos I sends 678,000 euros to Spanish tax agency for undeclared card spending". elnacional. 9 December 2020.

The Spanish public also gave a broadly positive opinion not only of the abdication but of his reign as a whole. According to a poll taken by El Mundo, 65% saw the King's reign as either good or very good, up from 41.3%. Overall, 55.7% of those polled in the 3–5 June survey by Sigma Dos supported the institution of the monarchy in Spain, up from 49.9% when the same question was posed six months prior. 57.5% believed the Prince could restore the royal family's lost prestige. An overwhelming majority of Spaniards believed the new King, Felipe VI, would make a good monarch and more than three-quarters believed King Juan Carlos had been right to hand over the throne to his son. [86] Retirement [ edit ] Mariángel Alcázar (22 August 2019). "El rey Juan Carlos se someterá a una operación de corazón el próximo sábado". La Vanguardia (in Spanish) . Retrieved 23 August 2019.

L, Elizabeth Reyes (6 August 2014). "El Rey Juan Carlos visita Colombia para la toma de posesión del presidente Santos". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582 . Retrieved 27 August 2023. Caballeros de la insigne orden del toisón de oro", Guía Oficial de España (in Spanish), 1908, p.152 , retrieved 15 December 2019

Preston, Paul (2005). Juan Carlos, Steering Spain from Dictatorship to Democracy. Harper Perennial, London. pp.301–443. Juan Carlos spent his early years in Italy and came to Spain in 1947 to continue his studies. After completing his secondary education in 1955, he began his military training and entered the General Military Academy at Zaragoza. Later, he attended the Naval Military School and the General Academy of the Air, and finished his tertiary education at the University of Madrid. In 1962, Juan Carlos married Princess Sophia of Greece and Denmark in Athens. The couple had two daughters and a son together: Elena, Cristina, and Felipe. Due to Franco's declining health, Juan Carlos first began periodically acting as Spain's head of state in the summer of 1974. Franco died in November the following year and Juan Carlos became king on 22 November 1975, two days after Franco's death, the first reigning monarch since 1931, although his exiled father did not formally renounce his claims to the throne in favor of his son until 1977.