Word: estoril
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...Juan is no princely puppet. In Estoril, he works hard each morning at his rambling Villa Giralda. digesting reports on developments in Spain, receiving visitors, answering mail, plowing through the newspapers flown in from London...
Even during the cruises, mail and radio reports flow out to the yacht. Last week, heading slowly back to Estoril from a trip through the Mediterranean, he paused briefly off Gibraltar to confer with two leaders of his council. He also stopped at Cartagena as guest of the local naval commander...
...comments cheerily to visitors. The whole matter, he adds, has been "exaggerated." But he speaks more freely in private. When aides keep assuring him that all important factions in Spain are for him. he will mutter: "If everybody's so monarchist, then why the hell am I in Estoril?" New Middle Class. Whoever runs Spain next will inherit a country slowly, painfully outgrowing the isolation and poverty of centuries. In old Castile, land of santos y cantos (saints and songs), village steeples are inhabited by storks, the near-sacred birds of Spain, standing high in their twig nests...
Into Exile. Don Juan often escapes the formality that is thrust upon him by his birth. At sea, he does his turn on deck with the crew; he normally wears faded dungarees and sneakers ashore in brief stops at foreign ports. At home in Estoril, he often drops in at bars for a beer or two, touring the tables to greet acquaintances. Now and then he goes to nightclubs, chats with friends until the small hours. He was not born to be a king, for he was only the third son of weak, dissolute Alfonso XIII. His eldest brother...
...broken out in Spain; abruptly Don Juan rushed off to join the nationalists' struggle against the republicans. But General Franco wanted no help from the monarchy, replied that Don Juan's life was "valuable and will be needed later." Until they chose a place to live at Estoril in 1946, Don Juan and his family roamed through Europe, as he puts it, "like the wandering Jew." The Reign in Spain. He is a handsome bull of a man, with no trace of the family's hereditary illness. But his younger daughter, Infanta Margarita, is blind. His older...