Juan Carlos I, King of Spain.
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... Juan Carlos I, King of Spain King Juan Carlos, Juan Carlos de Borbón y Borbón (born January 5, 1938) is the reigning King of Spain. He became Spanish monarch in 1975. His grandfather Alfonso XIII was King of Spain until deposed in 1931 by the Second Spanish Republic. The Republic was infamously ended by the Spanish Civil War and followed by the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, who ruled until his death on November 20th 1975. On November 22th, Juan Carlos became the King of Spain. He was born in exile in Rome. As a child, he was known as Juanito ("Johnny"). He left his parents and moved to Spain to follow an education under Franco's watch. This was imposed by Franco as a condition to restore the monarchy. In 1956, his younger brother Alfonso died of a gunshot wound at his parents' home in Estoril, Portugal. The official explanation is an














