King Juan Carlos & Queen Sofia of Spain

[Lucien]

Cena de Gala a Madrid tonight:

http://www.larioja.com/20090427/espana/sarkozy-llega-espana-para-200904270001.html

[Lucien]

TM arrived on Mallorca from Madeira where they had been guests of the Portuguese Presidential couple.
Early yesterday evening Queen Sofia and daughters Elena and Christina flew to Greece too attend the baptism
of the fifth child of Crown Prince Pavlos and Marie-Chantal,Prince Aristides.

http://gpdhome.typepad.com/royalblognl_news_summary/2009/08/juan-carlos-and-sofia-welcomed-on-mallorca.html

courtesy hja

[Lucien]

HM commented on the last three bomb attacks on Mallorca yesterday.

http://gpdhome.typepad.com/royalblognl_news_summary/2009/08/juan-carlos-terrorists-not-to-rule-mallorca-life-.html

courtesy hja

[belianis]

When did you first became aware of Prince Juan Carlos and the fact that he would eventually be King of Spain?

[Lucien]

When did you first became aware of Prince Juan Carlos and the fact that he would eventually be King of Spain?

I knew about him before but that he would be King,was when Generalissimo Franco proclaimed him as such,decades ago.

[Svetabel]

Pardon me,but could you please name the topics in English as our Forum is English-speaking by the way? My native is Russian but I even don't imagine to name topics in Russian. Thanks in advance.

[Lucien]

Pardon me,but could you please name the topics in English as our Forum is English-speaking by the way? My native is Russian but I even don't imagine to name topics in Russian. Thanks in advance.

It said;"His Royal Highness the Prince of Spain"

Well,you've just learned a little spanish.Thank you for not writing in russian,dear,hardly any of us know how to decipher Cyrillic anyway.
Your temper fitts in with Spain tho..... ..now,do try spanish dear,it is mas importante to learn more then your own lingo,snap je wel?

Me?Me gusta espanol,mucho...

[Yseult]

When did you first became aware of Prince Juan Carlos and the fact that he would eventually be King of Spain?

I knew about him before but that he would be King,was when Generalissimo Franco proclaimed him as such,decades ago.

Well, I was a very little child when Franco was dead and Juan Carlos was proclaimed king! I suppose it was a great surprise for me: suddenly (from the point of view of a little child...) we had a king and a queen! I know I was thrilled. To the ears of a little girl, the words "king" and "queen" sounds always better than "caudillo and his wife"

[Svetabel]

Pardon me,but could you please name the topics in English as our Forum is English-speaking by the way? My native is Russian but I even don't imagine to name topics in Russian. Thanks in advance.

It said;"His Royal Highness the Prince of Spain"

Well,you've just learned a little spanish.Thank you for not writing in russian,dear,hardly any of us know how to decipher Cyrillic anyway.
Your temper fitts in with Spain tho..... ..now,do try spanish dear,it is mas importante to learn more then your own lingo,snap je wel?

Me?Me gusta espanol,mucho...

If I want to learn Spanish I'll find other places to learn it. Here's a discussion Forum where we speak English as an international language.Let's all write down everyone its native and we see the chaos on the Forums. It's disrespectful to other members who don't know Spanish or any other language, one can freely change opninions in its native by PMs.

Also please don't call me "dear", it sounds patronizing.

I understand all this is out of topic, so here I am stopping.

[Lucien]

Pardon me,but could you please name the topics in English as our Forum is English-speaking by the way? My native is Russian but I even don't imagine to name topics in Russian. Thanks in advance.

It said;"His Royal Highness the Prince of Spain"

Well,you've just learned a little spanish.Thank you for not writing in russian,dear,hardly any of us know how to decipher Cyrillic anyway.
Your temper fitts in with Spain tho..... ..now,do try spanish dear,it is mas importante to learn more then your own lingo,snap je wel?

Me?Me gusta espanol,mucho...

If I want to learn Spanish I'll find other places to learn it. Here's a discussion Forum where we speak English as an international language.Let's all write down everyone its native and we see the chaos on the Forums. It's disrespectful to other members who don't know Spanish or any other language, one can freely change opninions in its native by PMs.

Also please don't call me "dear", it sounds patronizing.

I understand all this is out of topic, so here I am stopping.

Yes miss,ofcourse miss,bye,miss.....I do hope you find another place yes...

[Lucien]

When did you first became aware of Prince Juan Carlos and the fact that he would eventually be King of Spain?

I knew about him before but that he would be King,was when Generalissimo Franco proclaimed him as such,decades ago.

Well, I was a very little child when Franco was dead and Juan Carlos was proclaimed king! I suppose it was a great surprise for me: suddenly (from the point of view of a little child...) we had a king and a queen! I know I was thrilled. To the ears of a little girl, the words "king" and "queen" sounds always better than "caudillo and his wife"

It was very exciting indeed.It wasn't really expected that things would develop as they did,the Monarchy wasn't expected to
survive that long.And quite frankly,Spain didn't know what to expect,the fears of decades of the Caudillo's fascism ruled still,
and it was just little by little that the feeling emerged that this man,Don Juan Carlos,was really in favor of democracy.Decades
of fascism had left its marks on the people.Can't imagine that it was what it was nowadays,but it's a huge change.Incomparable really.

[belianis]

Infanta Yseult, I understand your excitement. There is magic in the titles KING and QUEEN--a magic that titles such as PRESIDENT and CHAIRMAN will never have.

[belianis]

How did you like the ceremony of the oath of office? 'tis very common to visualize coronation ceremonies in terms of those depicted in the Ronald Colman and Stewart Granger versions of THE PRISONER OF ZENDA.

[Eurohistory]

From 1969 onward it was officially declared by Franco that upon his death Juan Carlos would succeed as King.

Arturo Beéche

[grandduchessella]

Pardon me,but could you please name the topics in English as our Forum is English-speaking by the way? My native is Russian but I even don't imagine to name topics in Russian. Thanks in advance.

Sveta is correct here. In the Welcome New Members section the FA posts many of the rules. The one regarding language is as follows:

"Hi guys. With some many people posting now, in order for the search function to work at its best to find information, we will now ask you to use these standard ENGLISH spellings when posting in the forum UNLESS directly quoting a source.  We know that these words can be spelled differently in other languages, but we want the search to return as many results as possible. So, for example, if you spell "Sergei" as in Russian, the search for "SERGE" in English, it will not be found."

Again, these are the Forum Administrator's rules, not the wishes of any individual moderator.