Spanish King Ousted as World Wildlife Fund Patron

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The Spanish branch of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) voted to remove King Juan Carlos as the organization's honorary patron on Saturday after he went on an elephant-hunting safari in Botswana.

Members of the Spanish chapter of the WWF charity voted overwhelmingly to scrap the position of honorary patron, which has been occupied by Juan Carlos since the group was created in Spain in 1968.

The move is a further setback for Spain's royal family, whose popularity has waned amid corruption allegations against the King's son-in-law, and after the monarch's hunting holiday in April, in which he was photographed posing with a rifle next to a dead elephant and also broke his hip.