Infanta Beatriz of Spain

Beatriz Isabel de Borbón y Battenberg, Beatriz Isabel Federica Alfonsa full name Eugenia Cristina Maria Teresa de Borbon y Battenberg Ladisláa Bienvenida ( born June 22, 1909 Royal Palace of La Granja de San Ildefonso in Madrid, † 22 November 2002 in Rome) was Infanta of Spain and aunt of the present Spanish king Juan Carlos I.

Life

Beatriz Isabel was the eldest daughter of the Spanish king Alfonso XIII. (1886-1941) and his wife Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg (1887-1969), daughter of Henry Maurice of Battenberg and Beatrice of Great Britain and Ireland. Your paternal grandparents were King Alfonso XII. and his second wife Maria Christina of Austria.

She had an affair with her ​​cousin ( second degree ) Alvaro d' Orleans - Bourbon ( 1910-1997 ), eldest son of Beatrice of Saxe- Coburg and Gotha. However, a marriage did not materialize, as both carriers of hereditary disease, hemophilia were ( hemophilia ). Separation was carried out in 1931. On 14 April 1931, the Republic was proclaimed in Spain and her father, King Alfonso XIII. , Went on the same day without formal abdication into exile. The royal family first went to Paris, and shortly thereafter to Fontainebleau. The marriage of her parents was considered unlucky. Her father had several extramarital affairs and several illegitimate children. As of 1933, the parents were separated and Alfons moved with his daughters, Isabel and Beatriz Maria Christina, to Rome.

On January 14, 1935 Beatriz Isabel married in Rome Alessandro Torlonia, 5th Prince of Civitella de - Cessi ( 1911-1986 ), son of Marino Torlonia and his American wife Mary Elsie Moore. After the church ceremony, the newlyweds by Pope Pius XI. receive. The marriage produced four children:

• Sandra Vittoria (* 1936) ∞ 1958 Count Clemente Lequito di Assab ( 1925-1971 )
• Marco Alfonso ( b. 1937 )

• Riccardo Marino Francesco Maria Giuseppe (1939-1995)
• Olympic Emmanuela Enrichetta Maria ( * 1943) ∞ 1965 Paul Yannick Weiller ( b. 1933 )

Her husband, Alessandro Torlonia, was a great-uncle of the American film and television actress Brooke Shields.

On 22 November 2002 Beatriz Isabel died at the age of 93 years at the Palazzo Torlonia in Rome.