Infante Gonzalo of Spain
Don Gonzalo de Borbón y Battenberg KG, full name Gonzalo Manuel Maria Bernardo Narciso Alfonso Mauricio de Borbón y Battenberg ( born October 24, 1914 in Madrid, † August 13 1934 in Pörtschach ) was Infante of Spain and uncle of the present Spanish King Juan Carlos I.
Life
Gonzalo was the fifth son of seven children of the Spanish King Alfonso XIII. (1886-1941) and his wife Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg (1887-1969), 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. Gonzalo and his older brother Alfonso Pius (1907-1938) suffered from hemophilia, because her mother, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria, winner ( Konduktorin ) was the faulty gene.
On 14 April 1931, the Republic was proclaimed in Madrid and his 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. His parents' marriage was regarded as unfortunate. His father had subsequently affairs with other women and also several illegitimate children. From 1933, they lived separately and Alfons moved with his sisters, Beatrice Isabel and Maria Christina, to Rome. After Gonzalo had passed his Abitur in 1933, he studied mechanical engineering at the Catholic University of Leuven, rather than at the Complutense University of Madrid.
In August 1934 Infant Gonzalo spent with his family's summer vacation in the villa of Count Ladislaus Hoyos in Pörtschach. On the evening of 11 August he was with his sister Beatrice Isabel by car from Klagenfurt to Pörtschach go. Near Krumpendorf am Wörthersee had his sister, who was driving, a cyclist dodge and drove the car into a wall. Neither she nor Gonzalo appeared to be injured and later came back to the villa. A few hours later put physicians in Gonzalo severe abdominal bleeding determines an operation could not be performed due to his weak heart. Two days later, died aged just 19 Infant Gonzalo to his internal injuries and was subsequently buried in the cemetery of Pörtschach. In 1985, his body was reburied after Real Sitio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial and resting since then in the crypt of the Pantheon Infante.