Spanish king has hip replacement surgery after fall
MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s King Juan Carlos I underwent hip replacement surgery in Madrid on Saturday after breaking his right hip in a fall during a private trip to Botswana, the Royal Household said. The 74-year-old monarch, who suffers osteoarthritis and had a lung operation in 2010 and knee and foot surgery in 2011, suffered a fracture “in three fragments” of the hip, a statement said. The Spanish newspaper El Pais said on its website that the king was hunting elephants in Botswana when the accident happened. . . .
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