Cartoonists fined for depiction of crown prince
Spain ? Two cartoonists who depicted Spain’s crown prince having sex with his wife were convicted Tuesday of insulting the heir to the throne and were fined $4,370 each.
The drawing – which appeared on the cover of the satirical magazine El Jueves in July – depicted Crown Prince Felipe with his wife, Princess Letizia.
The caption alluded to a new government measure designed to boost Spain’s low birth rate by offering $3,640 to families for each new child born or adopted.
In the cartoon, the prince says to the princess: “Do you realize if you get pregnant, this will be the closest to real work I’ve ever done?”
At the time, a judge ordered the magazine confiscated from newsstands on the grounds that it insulted the royal family. El Jueves has a circulation of 70,000.