While catching up on my back issues of the print edition of the Christian Science Monitor, I came across an interesting piece about monarchies in the modern world that contained this wonderful gem about King Juan Carlos of Spain, who heads what the Monitor describes as “the most politically significant” monarchy in Europe. At a 2007 Ibero-American summit, it reports, the king “famously responded to leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who was interrupting the Spanish prime minister’s speech, by asking ‘Why don’t you just shut up?’”

The resulting YouTube clip has attracted more than a million views in various forms.