MADRID (AP) — With his reputation in tatters, Spain’s former King Juan Carlos I abdicated in favor of his son in 2014 and left Spain years later for self-imposed exile in the United Arab Emirates. Now, he is trying to rehabilitate his image — but struggling to make headway.

The disgraced former monarch published a memoir on Wednesday called “Reconciliation,” saying on the first page he needed to write it because, “in recent years, misinterpretations and false truths about my life have been growing.”

Juan Carlos, 87, was for decades deemed a national savior after he oversaw Spain’s return to democracy and stood down a military coup. Then came the womanizing, the spending on safaris to shoot African elephants during a worldwide recession, and finally the unseemly wealth of Saudi origin slo

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