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"I'm fine, as you can see", yesterday called King Juan Carlos of Spain (75) the journalists in front of the University Hospital in Madrid, when he was able to leave the hospital a week after his hip replacement .

According to the court, Juan Carlos first wants to spend a few days at home in the Zarzuela Palace before he thinks again of assuming representation duties. However, in a smooth process and only temporarily, because he must again under the knife in about two months. Then he gets left again completely inserted a new hip. It is his second, because in the first one, which he received in November 2012, an infection occurred, which has now been successfully resolved surgically.

At the moment Juan Carlos has to make do with a provisional prosthesis. A handicap that he can handle. "He quickly recovered from the procedure, " says a bulletin from his doctors. Whether the king can take the parade of his troops on National Day on October 12 is questionable, they said.

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