Tất nhiên là không cùng một lúc rồi

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Last week Spain’s former king abruptly (đột nhiên, đột ngột) left the country where he is at the center of investigations (điều tra) into alleged (cáo buộc) bribery (hối lộ) and money laundering (rửa tiền). The news, delivered by Juan Carlos, 82, in a personal letter to his son King Felipe VI, seemed to send shock waves throughout Spain when it was posted on the palace’s website on Monday.

But Amadeo Martinez Ingles, 84, was not surprised. The retired republican colonel (đại tá) has been Juan Carlos’ nemesis (nữ thần báo ứng, báo oán) for more than four decades. He was expelled (trục xuất) from the military for publicly voicing his opinions about the government in 1990, and was more recently fined several thousand euros by a Spanish court for “insults against the crown.” But he seems unfazed. In an opinion article last week, he continued to describe Spain’s Royal House of Bourbon as “a band of drunks, whores (điếm), idiots (kẻ ngốc), bastards (con hoang, kẻ đáng khinh), nymphomaniacs (đàn bà cuồng dâm) and lazy thugs.”

For years, he has railed against Juan Carlos’ alleged corruption, asked difficult questions about the shooting death of his younger brother, Alfonso, and chronicled his various extramarital affairs (chuyện tình ngoài hôn nhân). In his best-selling biography “Juan Carlos I: The King of the 5,000,” Martinez Ingles claims the former king has had nearly 5,000 lovers in his lifetime.

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