Mi rey caído

What can unite a "daughter of revolutionaries" and a king? After spending her adolescence in Spain, Laurence Debray became interested, as a historian, in the figure of Juan Carlos I. She wrote his biography and later interviewed him on the eve of his abdication, in 2014, for a television documentary . Since then, she has not stopped talking to him and following the plot twists of his fate. She even visited him, in 2021, in Abu Dhabi, where she took refuge, becoming a figure rejected by the Spanish as a result of his extramarital affairs and a father too cumbersome for King Felipe VI. The story of this atopic relationship that Laurence Debray gives us fascinates with his virtuosity, intelligence, and lucidity when past and present collide. We are facing the true novel of the life of Juan Carlos, King of Spain.