List of titles and honours of Juan Carlos I

Juan Carlos I has received numerous decorations and honorary appointments as monarch of Spain. Spanish monarchical titles or styles are listed in order of degrees of sovereignty, nobility, and honour.^[1]

Royal titles and styles

• 5 January 1938 – 15 January 1941: His Royal Highness Infante Don Juan Carlos
• 15 January 1941 – 22 November 1975: His Royal Highness The Prince of Asturias (titular)
• 21 July 1969 – 22 November 1975: His Royal Highness The Prince of Spain
• 22 November 1975 – 19 June 2014: His Majesty The King
• 19 June 2014 – present: His Majesty King Don Juan Carlos

As a grandson to deposed King Alfonso XIII, Juan Carlos was an Infante of Spain from birth. His father Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona became Head of the Royal House after his father's and elder brother's deaths and his other elder brother's renunciation. Juan Carlos thus became titular Prince of Asturias,^[2] the title traditionally held by the heir to the Spanish throne. In 1969, twelve years after the Law of Succession to the Headship of the State, the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco skipped Infante Juan and designated Juan Carlos as his successor, with the title Prince of Spain.^[3] On Franco's death in 1975, he thus became King of Spain.

The Spanish titles of Juan Carlos I as monarch of Spain were as follows:

• King of Spain
• King of Castile, of León, of Aragon, of the Two Sicilies* (Naples and Sicily), of Jerusalem*, of Navarre, of Granada, of Toledo, of Valencia, of Galicia, of Majorca, of Seville, of Sardinia*, of Córdoba, of Corsica*, of Murcia, of Menorca, of Jaén, of the Algarves*, of Algeciras, of Gibraltar*, of the Canary Islands, of the East Indies* and West Indies* and of the Islands and Mainland of the Ocean Sea*;
• Archduke of Austria*;
• Duke of Burgundy*, of Brabant*, of Milan*, of Athens*, of Neopatras* (New Patras) and of Limburg*;
• Count of Habsburg*, of Flanders*, of Tyrol*, of Roussillon* and of Barcelona;
• Lord of Biscay and of Molina

Titles in pretence marked with * are historical titles which are only nominal and ceremonial.

Honours

Awards

• Germany: Charlemagne Prize (1982)^[49]
• Russia: Laureate of the Russian Federation National Award (2010) for Outstanding Achievement in the Humanitarian Field^[50]
• Switzerland: Jean Monnet Award of the Jean Monnet Foundation for Europe for his work on integrating Spain into the European Community^[51]
• USA: Member of the Sons of the American Revolution organisation^[52]; Freedom medal of the Roosevelt Institute (1996); World Statesman Award (1997) of the Appeal of Conscience Foundation
• Gold Olympic Order, 1985
• UNESCO International Simón Bolívar Prize (1983); Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize^[53] (1994)

International sovereign organisations

• International Order of St. Hubertus

Honorific eponyms

• Spain
• USA New York City: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center at New York University Graduate School of Arts and Science, to foster the study of Hispanic culture and language

Other honours

• Spain
• Holy See Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore: Protocanon (ex officio)^[54] 22 November 1975 – 19 June 2014; Basilica di San Paolo fuori le Mura: Protocanon (ex officio)^[55] 22 November 1975 – 19 June 2014
• Other: : Honorary President of the Organization of Ibero-American States

Scholastic

The king has been the recipient of numerous honorary doctorates and degrees,^[56] including:

Honorary doctorates

• Argentina
• France University of Paris (La Sorbonne)
• Italy University of Bologna
• Philippines University of Santo Tomas^[56]
• United Kingdom University of Cambridge^[56]; University of Oxford^[56]
• USA Harvard University^[56]; Southern Methodist University^[56] (where, in 2001, he formally opened the Meadows Museum, housing the largest collection of Spanish art outside Spain); Georgetown University,^[56] Honorary Doctor of Laws

Degrees

• Netherlands
• USA New York University^[56]

Spanish Royal Academies

• Spanish Royal Academies Board: High Patron (ex officio)^[57] 22 November 1975 – 19 June 2014

Other

• Gold Medal of the Jean Monnet Foundation for Europe, in 1996.
• Elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1992.^[58]

Military rank

• 1964 – ?: Ship-of-the-line lieutenant, Spanish Navy
• 1973 – 22 November 1975: Brigadier general, Spanish Army
• 1973 – 22 November 1975: Counter admiral, Spanish Navy
• 1973 – 22 November 1975: Brigadier general, Spanish Air Force^[59]
• 22 November 1975 – 19 June 2014: Captain General of the Spanish Armed Forces^[60]