Juan Carlos I has returned to Mallorca and the Marivent Palace seven years later. The emeritus king took advantage of a lightning visit to the island to enter on Sunday the residence that concentrated the family, political, and social life of the Spanish monarchy for decades. Before that, he celebrated at the Flanigan restaurant the 80th birthday of its owner, Miguel Arias, an old friend from the times when the establishment was known as 'the King's restaurant', as reported by La Vanguardia.The monarch had arrived on Sunday morning in Mallorca on a private plane from Geneva. The trip coincided with the departure of Felipe VI, who had left the island to visit, along with Queen Letizia, the neighbors displaced by the fires and housed in a sports center in Villamanta, Madrid. That same evening, the monarch traveled to Lima to attend the inauguration of the new president of Peru, Keiko Fujimori.

The mayor of Palma, Jaime Martínez, has invited King Felipe VI to the commemoration of the 800th anniversary of the conquest of Mallorca by Jaume I, which will take place in 2029. The monarch has held meetings with the main authorities of the Balearic Islands this Friday at the Almudaina Palace in Palma. As explained in statements to the media, the mayor took advantage of the meeting to extend the invitation to the monarch. "He is also the King of Mallorca," he justified.

Mass tourism has been one of the issues that President Marga Prohens discussed this Friday with King Felipe VI, who received the authorities of the Balearic Islands at the Royal Palace of Almudaina in Palma. "We mentioned that I understand the unease of a part of the population with the tourist growth that in the last eight years was absolutely out of control: 115,000 places in eight years," said the president, who attributes the responsibility for tourist saturation to the governments of Francina Armengol.

Juan Carlos has published an indescribable video to promote his memoirs. He defends his role in the transition from dictatorship to democracy and ends by asking young people to support his son, Felipe VI, in his reign. He is seen seated against a backdrop of a Spanish flag—both digital and stylized—that covers the entire screen. We haven't seen a more ridiculous use of the flag since Sonia Monroy appeared at the Oscars ceremony wrapped in one as a dress. Nor have we seen a more ludicrous use of green screen. Nor of whatever video editing software they used.

A few days ago, at the annual audience that the King of Spain dedicates to political leaders from the Balearic Islands, President Marga Prohens spoke with Felipe VI about the problem of overpopulation in the Balearic Islands. The message, as Maria Llull subtly captured in her column in the ARA Baleares newspaper, was contradictory to that of the Speaker of the Parliament (and now also of Vox Baleares, something much more important to him), Gabriel Le Senne, who shared with the monarch his concern about the reproductive rate of the population: he finds it so low that, in his opinion, they are headed for extinction. Damn. (Note: Le Senne speaks of "Mallorcans" only enough because he is unaware of the existence of the people of Menorca, Ibiza, and Formentera. He also doesn't know that the Parliament he presides over represents all those people; he thinks it's a provincial theater that should be dedicated to the unity of Spain.)