Royal injuries

The royal family has been in the news lately for two injuries. This continues a string of negative news about the royal family which began with the news last winter that the King's son in law, the Duke of Palma, was under investigation for money laundering through a company he runs. Anyway, earlier this week the King's grandson shot himself in the foot during a hunting trip. This grandson is named Felipe Juan Froilán but the media refer to him simply as "Froilán" because it is an unusual name and differentiates him from his uncle Felipe. It's kind of like if Obama had a son called Barack Hussein Gerald Obama and everyone called him Gerald (OK, this comparison is quite a stretch, but I'm just making myself laugh here. In reality, a better analogy would be the way that George W Bush was referred to by his middle initial). So this 13-year-old shot himself in the foot and people have been making fun of him ever since. One politician from the party United Left said "I'm very sorry to hear that the King's grandson shot himself in the foot, given the number of places in your body there are to shoot." Wooowwww. Stay classy, Manuel Sosa! Then, yesterday or the day before, it was announced that the King had been flown back to Madrid for surgery after breaking his hip. But wait, I hear you asking, what do you mean by "flown back"? Well, it turns out that the King was in Botswana hunting elephants. And there is a by-now famous photo of him holding a gun in front of a giant dead elephant. Somehow this seems like a really appropriate sport for a King, but as you can imagine, people in the media or online are displaying outrage and asking questions like, what was the King doing hunting elephants when the country is in crisis? What was he doing hunting elephants at all? How much did this cost? Why didn't he announce where he was going? etcetera. The takeaway is that this isn't such a good time for the public image of the royal house.