the socialist government's plan to give €2,500 for each baby born to married couples with legal residence in Spain

last July in the satirical magazine El Jueves, the prince is commenting to his wife

Under the heading "€2,500 per child",

prince says: "Have you realised that if you get pregnant....this will be the nearest thing to work I've done in my life!"

far more Spaniards saw the cartoon than would normally have done. Many Spanish newspapers, incensed at what they saw as an attack on freedom of expression, reproduced the cartoon

anybody who insults the royal family can face up to two years in prison

"clearly degrading and objectively defaming" and was "obviously an attack" against "the honour" of the prince because of "the deliberate and unjustified use of his image, in evident and conscious contempt of the Crown, causing notable hurt to its institutional prestige"