Madrid, Spain, Apr 8, 2010 / 19:55 pm
A flight attendant recently sent back a signed photo of the King of Spain after he signed the country's new law lifting several restrictions on abortion.
In a letter accompanying the picture, the flight attendant, Maria Belen Lopez, explained that it was “with great sorrow and disappointment” that she return the photograph to King Juan Carlos because “a picture of the supposedly Catholic monarch” who supports Spain's new law on abortion, “can no longer reside in my home.”
Belen Lopez served the Spanish king and queen on their first flight to Rome.
“Today, I feel a moral obligation to return this picture that I have treasured with great affection and pride” and has always “occupied a prominent place in my home,” Belen Lopez said. She remarked that she always considered the monarchy to be “an important source of balance and reconciliation” for Spain.