Juan Carlos added: “This is a very emotional decision, but one I take with great serenity.” "Guided by the conviction to best serve the people of Spain, its institutions, and you as king, I inform you of my decision at this time to leave Spain." In the letter to his son, the embattled king wrote that “in the face of the public repercussions that certain past events in my private life are generating,” he made the decision to leave the royal palace and the country to help Felipe “exercise his responsibilities” as king, with "tranquillity." In March, amid rumors about the former king’s finances and allegations of bribes linked to a high-speed rail contract in Saudi Arabia, King Felipe had cut his father’s annual stipend that amounted to $228,000 and “renounced his own personal inheritance from his father after reports that he was in line to receive millions of euros from a secret offshore fund with ties to Saudi Arabia,” The Guardian wrote. The allegations of impropriety have now followed the former monarch for years, negatively affecting the efforts by his son, King Felipe, to move the monarchy out of his father’s shadow. “In recent years, the revelations about his private life and financial affairs have tarnished what was once seen as one of Europe’s model monarchies,” The Guardian explains. Juan Carlos abdicated in 2014 after nearly 40 years serving as a highly popular king, in the wake of a corruption investigation involving his daughter, Infanta Cristina, and her husband, Iñaki Urdangarí (who is still in jail), and a controversial elephant-hunting trip to Botswana as Spain was suffering the worst of a financial crisis. Spain, ending a royal tour, through several Spanish communities with the objective of supporting economic, social and cultural activity after the coronavirus outbreak.
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