''Carlos, rey emperador'' () is a Spanish historical fiction

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, directed by Oriol Ferrer and produced by Diagonal TV for

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. The series is a sequel to the successful ''

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'' and is based upon the reign of

Charles I Charles I may refer to: Kings and emperors * Charlemagne (742–814), numbered Charles I in the lists of Holy Roman Emperors and French kings * Charles I of Anjou (1226–1285), also king of Albania, Jerusalem, Naples and Sicily * Charles I of ...

. It was broadcast on La 1 of Televisión Española from 2015 to 2016.

Production

The series is in the same continuity as television series ''

'' and film '' La corona partida'', which were also produced by Diagonal TV.

Plot

The series tells the story of Charles I or Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, one of the most powerful men Europe has met, the ruler of an empire as great in size as in diversity. As the life of Charles of Habsburg is told since his arrival to Spain, it can be seen how the heir to the crowns of Germany, Burgundy, the Netherlands, the territories of the Crown of Aragon and its related Italian territories, and of the territories of the Catholic Monarchs in Castile, North Africa and the Americas, matures as a statesman and gets stronger in face of menaces around him and good and bad advice from his counselors.

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