Royal Household of Spain

The Royal Household of Spain, officially La Casa de Su Majestad el Rey de España (The Household of His Majesty the King of Spain), is the constitutional organization which supports the monarch in the exercise of his royal duties and prerogatives. The Royal Household does not form part of the Spanish Government, and remains exclusively under the direction of the monarch. However, the Royal Household coordinates with the Spanish Government and the Patrimonio Nacional in the planning of official state occasions and ceremonies. The Royal Household is funded through yearly state budgets and subject to the approval of the Cortes Generales. It has its historical precedent in the Royal Household and Heritage of the Crown of Spain. Nevertheless, when King Juan Carlos I acceded to the Throne in 1975, he decided to create a Household completely different from the former Court of his grandfather Alfonso XIII. The modern Royal Household is much simpler than the precedent institution and it was decided not to recreate the majority of Offices which existed in the old Royal Household, maintaining basically the Head of the Royal Household and the Secretary General of the Royal Household. Both these offices are held by professional, senior civil servants, even if they come from the nobility.

According to subsection 64 of the 1978 constitution and subsequent organic acts, the monarch is entitled to compensation from the annual state budget for the maintenance of his family and household administration, and freely distributes funds in accordance with the laws.

The annual budget pays the remunerations for senior management staff, management staff and career civil servants, other minor staffing positions, and for general office expenses. The Head of Household, Secretary General, and other management staff salaries must be comparable to other administration ministers within the government, though in no way do they form part of the government or administration. As such, the management staff experience increases, decreases, or freezes to their pay in accordance with the fluctuations of government minister salaries.

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