Two Spanish cartoonists have been fined £2000 each on a charge of insulting Felipe Bourbon, who is heir to the office of head of state.
The charge arose from a law intended to boost the birth rate by paying cash to families for adopting or giving birth to a child.
Guillermo Torres and Manel Fontevilla depicted Mr. Bourbon having sex with his wife and saying “Do you realise if you get pregnant this will be the closest to real work I’ve ever done”.
The magazine in which the cartoon was published was confiscated by the court. National Court judge Vazquez Honrubia complained that the two men had “vilified the crown in the most gratuitous and unnecessary way”.