...he demonstrates he has mastered the ability at holding a scepter and sitting on a throne.

- And that's pretty much it. Great work if you can get it.......

K&R

...he presumably won't be under the illusion that he earned his title through hard work and entrepreneurship.

Oh, the awful things the idle rich find to do in their leisure time.

throughout the Left, Greens, the new Podemos Party, sectors of the Center-Left (the 'young socialists' of the PSOE), and explicit Republican parties such as ERC in Catalonia...

See (in Spanish): http://politica.elpais.com/politica/2014/06/02/actualidad/1401698982_637616.html

there was an attempted coup. the base was on lock down, I lived out in town,lucky I was on duty when it started. it was over in 24 hours, it failed, they kept the base locked down for 3 days.

When the coup happened in 1981 Juan Carlos said it would succeed only over his dead body. Several RW generals didn't join it for that reason, they could not oppose their king.

Prince Felipe, for a few years, actually did some work. He worked in the Inspector General's Office of the Spanish Navy under a man with a far more famous name Admiral Colon, a descendent of the famous Chris who got lost on the way to India.

Wolf