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King Juan Carlos: Again the old man


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He laughs and jokes

The royalists Spaniards would be pleased, the monarch opponents, however, will not like to see it, but King Juan Carlos is back to the very old. He showed himself in high spirits these days, escorted by his equally good-humored wife Sofia, at the start of a media exhibition in Madrid.

Apart from the fact that Juan Carlos was still on a stick - but now quite nimble - came along, it seemed otherwise all health problems with his joints and alleged scandals on him to be shaken. His Majesty joked and laughed when he opened the show for the 75th anniversary of the international Spanish press and publishing agency EFE. Juan Carlos was obviously having a good look back in time when heavy, black dial-up phones were still in use when reporters whizzed through the streets with their racing bike and agency material was pulled out with rattling cars. All the technical tools that were not so long ago highly topical and were admired accordingly, but today are so totally outdated that they are only ridiculed.

Friendly and dressed in yellow, Sofia accompanied her husband. Side by side, both shook countless hands, and the queen was quickly and skilfully honored by so many gentlemen with a hand kiss. The Spaniards are just charmers. That was also noticeable during the defilee. While the men clearly indicated a kind of bow by nodding, not a single lady dared to bow down, not even remotely.

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