Washington Post (August 24)
2012/ 08/ 26 by jd in Global News
Slammed by the debt crisis, Europeans are growing impatient with royal spending. Spain provides one example. “Shortly after confiding to his countrymen that he had been unable to sleep at night because of all the young unemployed people in his country, Spanish King Juan Carlos secretly hopped aboard a plane and went on a lavish safari to Botswana, where he shot elephants.” When they found out, “Spaniards were outraged. Newspapers calculated that such hunting trips cost twice the country’s average annual salary.”
Tags: Botswana, Europe, King Juan Carlos, Royalty, Safari, Spain, Unemployed
