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May 16th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
“They didn’t discuss the reasons, only that it would be inappropriate for
Queen Sofia to accept the invitation in the current circumstances,”
Juan Carlos Zamora, a spokesman at Zarzuela Palace, told the Daily
Telegraph. “If the government thinks a trip is ill-advised they say so,
and that’s that,” he added.
The invitation had also been extended to King Juan Carlos, but he declined
after fracturing his hip during a safari to hunt elephants in Botswana last
month, a trip that caused outrage in Spain and prompted the monarch to issue
an unprecedented public apology.
Queen Sofia is the great-great granddaughter of Queen Victoria and so
distantly related to Queen Elizabeth. She is also the first
cousin-once-removed of Prince Philip.
It is not the first time the centuries old dispute over Gibraltar’s
sovereignty has scuppered plans for the two families to celebrate Royal
events.
In 1981, the Spanish royals were forced to decline an invitation to the
wedding of the Prince of Wales to Lady Diana in Westminster Abbey in protest
that the couple had chosen to begin their honeymoon with a visit to
Gibraltar.
Spain ceded Gibraltar to Britain in 1713 under the Treaty of Utrecht and it is
recognised as a British Overseas Territory. But Spain has long argued that
it should be returned to Spanish sovereignty and tensions have mounted since
the conservative government of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy came to power
last December.
Spain’s new government has abandoned tripartite talks over areas of
co-operation between Spain, Britain and Gibraltar and instead formally asked
Britain for bilateral talks over its sovereignty.
A row over fishing rights surrounding the Rock has also escalated in recent
days with Gibraltarian authorities seizing Spanish fishing vessels entering
its waters.
Meanwhile a group of MPs have urged William Hague, the Foreign Secretary, to
withdraw an invitation to the King of Bahrain to attend the event.
The All Party Parliamentary Group for Democracy in Bahrain wrote to Mr Hague
saying that allowing him to attend would “lend respectability to a
tyrannical regime”.
A spokesman for Buckingham Palace said the final list of attendees would be
made public on the day of the lunch.
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