Palacio Real

The Royal Palace in Madrid is very beautiful:

The current King of Spain is currently in the hospital, recovering from an operation. Unlike the British monarch, Spain’s Juan Carlos I actually has a not-entirely-insignificant political role (other than distracting the general public from the problems the country faces with the endless family melodrama, which is obviously the only function of the British royal family.)

The King doesn’t live in this palace, though. Nowadays, it is a museum.

I don’t like this King because he had been a total suck-up to the fascist dictator Franco for decades and then had the gall to say that he had simply been pretending to support the dictatorship in order to maintain alive the hope of reestablishing the monarchy. As an important Spanish historian said, “We seem to have had franquismo without any actual franquistas.”