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Tom Burns Marañón, who as a foreign correspondent was a direct and impartial witness to the transition from dictatorship to democracy, brilliantly navigates the ins and outs of a historical period to unravel the role played by the controversial figure of Juan Carlos I in an exemplary process of regime change. The political transformation was anchored in the leadership shown by Juan Carlos I and in the apparent paradox of "continuity without continuism." Don Juan Carlos was Franco's successor and heir to Don Juan, Count of Barcelona, the dictator's main adversary. This incisive essay, based on the testimonies of the main actors of the Transition, traces the legacy that Don Juan Carlos received from Franco, which he inherited from his father Don Juan, and which was conferred on him by the so-called "Generation of the Prince," who did not fight in the Civil War and desired freedom and reconciliation. Subsequent events, considered immoral and reprehensible, cast a shadow over the reign, but the Transition constitutes a paradigm in the annals of the democratization of a dictatorship because the Crown was able to guarantee the upright, rapid, and radical political change that society demanded. Juan Carlos I left Spain having bequeathed to his heir Felipe VI a constitutional and parliamentary monarchy.
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