Alfonso, Prince of Asturias (1907–1938)

Prince Alfonso de Borbón y Battenberg Pius, KG, Alfonso Pío Cristino Eduardo full name Francisco Guillermo Carlos Enrique Fernando Antonio Venancio de Borbón y Battenberg ( born May 10, 1907 in Madrid, Spain, † September 6, 1938 in Miami, Florida, United States) was Infante of Spain and Prince of Asturias and Count of Covadonga.

Life

Alfons Pius was the eldest son of the Spanish King Alfonso XIII. and his wife Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, daughter of Prince Henry Maurice of Battenberg and Princess Beatrice of Great Britain and Ireland. Paternal His grandparents were King Alfonso XII. and his second wife Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria. Alfons Pius and his younger brother Gonzalo Manuel suffered from hemophilia, because her mother, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria, winner ( Konduktorin ) was the faulty gene.

1933 Alfons Pius renounced his right to the throne because he married a commoner Edelmira Sampedro - Robato ( 1906-1994 ) in Lausanne. The couple wore it the title of Count or Countess of Covadonga. The marriage ended in divorce after only four years. With the Cuban Marta Ester Rocafort - Altazarra (1913-1993), he entered into a new marriage that failed after only six months. Just before he could marry his first wife again, he died in a car accident in Miami. Alfons Pius was buried in the cemetery at Woodlawn Cemetery in Miami; In 1985 his body after Real Sitio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial was transferred and rests in the crypt of the Pantheon of Infantes.

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