Spain’s Former King to Leave Country Amid Financial Scandal

Spain’s Former King to Leave Country Amid Financial Scandal
People walk in Stockholm during the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on July 27, 2020. Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP via Getty Images
|Updated:

MADRID—Spain’s former monarch, Juan Carlos I, says he’s leaving Spain to live in another, unspecified, country amid a financial scandal, according to a letter published on the royal family’s website on Aug. 3.

The letter from Juan Carlos to his son, King Felipe VI, said: “I am informing you of my considered decision to move, during this period, out of Spain.”