Juan Carlos was born in 1938, the first son but second child of the Prince and Princess of the Asturias, grandson of exiled King Alfonso XIII of Spain. In 1962 he married the Princess Sofia of Greece and Denmark, daughter of King Paul I and Queen Fredericka of the Hellenes, with whom he had three children: Infantas Elena and Cristina and Infante Felipe, born in 1968, just one year before Juan Carlos’ designation as Prince of Spain and heir of Franco. Two days after the dictator’s death began a long but inevitable and desired transition towards democracy, after the 40 dark years of Franco’s dictatorship. King Juan Carlos arrived with his wife Queen Sofia to the Cortes, where the 560 deputies, the Diplomatic Corps, members of the Royal Family and Franco’s family, and some few heads of state, which for being so few seemed to refuse their support to the new King, awaited him.
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