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Spain Ex-King's Exile Reignites Questions on Monarchy's Future

Graham Keeley

   MADRID - In select circles in Madrid, the rumor had been making the
   rounds for weeks: Beset by a financial scandal that would not go away,
   former King Juan Carlos I was preparing to go into exile.

   The whispers were proven right in spectacular fashion when the
   ex-monarch left Spain this week.

   In a letter published on the royal family's website, Juan Carlos told
   his son, King Felipe VI, he was leaving the country due to the "public
   repercussions of certain episodes of my past private life".

   Stunned Spaniards were left to play a guessing game as to the
   whereabouts of the man who had reigned over them for nearly 40 years
   until he abdicated in 2014.

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