Quote Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat View Post
Oh what bollox again. The king did not support freedom, the king supported (was the puppet of) Prime de Rivera, the Spanish dictator. When the dictator died, the monarchy was abolished too. In its place came the Spanish Republic, a democratically established, free republic. This was way back in 1931.

The monarchy had been long gone when the republic was violently overthrown by insurrectionists. The civil war started in 1936 when the fascist and monarchist insurrectionists sought to overthrow the free republic. When they succeeded, neither a free country nor a monarchy resulted, but Franco's dictatorship was imposed.
I conflated two points.

1. That the Spanish King has protected the rights of his people, to upset HoreTore,

and

2. That the scoialists caused the revolution, which was precipitated by the insistance on getting rid of the King and creating a socialist constitution.