Monday, April 16, 2012

Spanish King Under Fire For Hunting Elephants

Spanish King Under Fire for Hunting Elephants in Botswana

Spain’s King Juan Carlos I came under intense media fire on Sunday for hunting elephants in Botswana when his country was being sucked back into the euro zone’s financial crisis and one young Spaniard out of two was unemployed

Spanish media pointed to the cost of his trip and criticized the lack of transparency of the Royal Household, three months after it promised to disclose its income following a corruption probe linked to the king’s son-in-law.

The royal holiday last week would have remained secret if the king had not tripped on a step, fractured his hip and had to be flown back urgently to Madrid to undergo hip replacement surgery on Saturday morning.

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