Hours after King Juan Carlos of Spain announced he is abdicating the throne to his son, activists in Barcelona and elsewhere rallied to demand an end of the monarchy.

The king had recently been seen as out of touch and raised anger when he took a secret luxury elephant-hunting trip to Botswana in 2012, a time when one in four Spanish workers was out of work.

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