Queen Sofia's Marriage With King Juan Carlos Was Much CRUELER Than You Thought

January 2023. Athens. A funeral. Juan Carlos arrives from Abu Dhabi, where he has lived since August 2020. Sofía arrives from Madrid, from the house she has occupied since 1962. They stand together to bury her brother, the last king of Greece. Spain knows this woman as the patient queen — forty-eight years of marriage, never a complaint. What Spain rarely says out loud is that she had nowhere else to go. She had surrendered her religion, her place in the Greek succession, even the spelling of her name. Then the throne she came from stopped existing. Why did she stay?