Juan de Borbon

Juan de Borbon
▪ 1994

      (JUAN CARLOS TERESA SILVERIO ALFONSO DE BORBÓN Y BATTENBERG, CONDE DE BARCELONA), Spanish royal (b. June 20, 1913, Segovia, Spain—d. April 1, 1993, Pamplona, Spain), was pretender to the Spanish throne from the death of his father, King Alfonso XIII, in 1941 until 1977, when he formally renounced his claim in favour of his son, King Juan Carlos I. The third son of King Alfonso XIII, Don Juan (as he was always known) went into exile with his family in 1931. Two years later he succeeded to the pretendership when his eldest brother renounced the throne to marry a commoner; his second brother, who was deaf, also ceded his claim. In 1936 Don Juan tried unsuccessfully to join Gen. Francisco Franco's Nationalist forces in the Spanish Civil War. However, after the war he publicly opposed Franco's dictatorial rule and campaigned from exile for the establishment of a constitutional monarchy. In 1948 he reluctantly agreed to send his sons, Juan Carlos and Alfonso, to be educated in Spain. After refusing several times, Juan Carlos agreed in 1969 to be named as Franco's successor. Father and son were estranged until 1975, when Franco died and Juan Carlos quickly called for the constitutional monarchy his father had long sought. In May 1977, shortly before Spain's first democratic elections, Don Juan returned to his homeland and formally renounced his claim to the throne. He was given a state funeral and buried in the royal crypt alongside his father.

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