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Macron dinner for Vargas Llosa and controversial Spanish former king

The 86-year-old novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, who also has Spanish citizenship, controversially invited the former monarch to his inauguration ceremony into the Académie Française on Thursday in Paris.

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French president Emmanuel Macron had dinner on Friday with Spain's exiled former king Juan Carlos I and Peruvian Nobel winner Mario Vargas Llosa. The literature laureate joined the élite French Academy on 9 February, reports RFI.

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