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The following paragraph appears in a recent AP report on the meeting in Madrid:
A frustrated King Juan Carlos, seated next to Zapatero, leaned toward Chavez and loudly asked: "Why don't you shut up?" The monarch then left the chamber.
Question: What is the meaing of the indefinite article "A" at the beginning of the paragraph? King Juan Carlos is a well-known personality, shouldn't "The" is a better choice than "A"?
The meaning of "A" 
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