"I feel like my story is being stolen": Juan Carlos will publish his autobiography at the end of the year.

"My father always advised me not to write my memoirs. Kings don't confess, much less publicly. Their secrets remain buried in the shadows of palaces. Why do I disobey him today? Why have I changed my mind? Because I feel like my story is being stolen from me ." This is Juan Carlos I , who has decided to go against his father's advice and recount his life in the first person.

The autobiography of the emeritus king is titled Reconciliation and will be published at the end of the year by the publishing house Planeta, which does not hesitate to describe the publication of Juan Carlos I's memoirs as a "historic event." "If His Majesty has decided to tell his story after almost forty years of reign, it is because exile in Abu Dhabi, some of the published opinion and, why not, his own mistakes have ended up overshadowing his career and his fundamental contributions to the success of Spanish democracy," Planeta highlights in a press release.

Reconciliation, according to the publisher's statement, recounts in detail the private side of a public life. "It's a memoir rich in anecdotes that doesn't avoid the most significant episodes of our recent history, nor the joys or hardships of his intimate and personal life," Planeta emphasizes. A journey that begins in a country immersed in a Cainite war and with a young Juan Carlos anchored to a destiny that isn't his, but who step by step, evading a thousand plots and earning the trust of all, ends up becoming the main actor in the radical transformation of Spain into the modern and prosperous state it is today.

Written with an open heart and without compromise, the work navigates between the two exiles that mark the beginning and end of his life—the forced one, in Estoril, and the voluntary one, in Abu Dhabi—and many of the most prominent figures in contemporary history pass through it. The monarch, in the twilight of his life and far from his family, prepares to make his final confession. "I have no right to cry," he says. But, as the press release from Planeta publishing house states, he has the right to seek his longed-for reconciliation with the country he loves and yearns for so much.

"My father always advised me not to write my memoirs. Kings don't confess, much less publicly. Their secrets remain buried in the shadows of palaces. Why do I disobey him today? Why have I changed my mind? Because I feel like my story is being stolen from me ." This is Juan Carlos I , who has decided to go against his father's advice and recount his life in the first person.