http://news.yahoo.com/pm-spanish-king-abdicate-favor-son-083923278.html
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MADRID (AP) — Spain's King Juan Carlos, who led Spain's transition from dictatorship to democracy but faced royal scandals amid the nation's near financial meltdown, will abdicate so his son can become the country's next monarch, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy told the country Monday in an announcement broadcast nationwide.
Rajoy did not say when the handover would happen because the government must now craft a law creating a legal mechanism for the abdication and for 46-year-old Crown Prince Felipe's assumption of power......
Whoa. This ages me. I still thought of Juan Carlos this way:
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