Isabella, Princess of Asturias (1851–1931)
Infanta Isabella of Spain, Doña Isabel de Borbón y Borbón, Infanta de España ( * December 20, 1851 at the Palacio Real in Madrid, † April 23, 1931 in Paris) was a member of the House of Bourbon. She was twice, 1851-1857 and 1874-1880, as Princess of Asturias heir to the Spanish crown.
Your full baptismal name was: María Isabel Francisca de Asís Cristina Francisca de Paula Fernanda Luisa Josefa Trinidad Joaquina Ana Melchora gas Para Baltasara María del Olvido Dolores Pilar Concepcion Carmen Desamparados Filomena Micaela Rafaela Gabriela Dominga de la Cogolla Tomasa Teresa Rita Lucía Agueda Bárbara Bibiana María de la Cabeza Isidra Rosalía Polonia Lugarda Ramona Cosme de Damiana Antonia de San Antón Juana Bautista de Vicenta Ferrer Genara Francisca de Borja Blasa Jacoba de Roque Caralampia y de Todos los Santos.
Life
Isabella was the eldest daughter of the Spanish Queen Isabella II (1830-1904) and her husband Prince Francis of Assisi (1822-1902), eldest son of Francisco de Paula de Borbón and Princess Luisa Carlotta of Bourbon- Sicily. Your maternal grandparents were King Ferdinand VII and his fourth wife Princess Maria Christina of Sicily. Your godparents were the last reigning Duke of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla, Robert I., and his sister Margaret Mary, Duchess of Madrid. Your first Communion she received in Rome by Pope Pius IX ..
On May 13, 1868 married Infanta Isabella in Madrid with her cousin ( second degree ), the Prince Gaetano of Bourbon- Sicily ( 1846-1871 ), Count of Girgenti, the fourth son of King Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies and his second wife, Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria. The marriage remained childless; her husband suffered from depression and committed suicide in 1871 in Lucerne.
After the expulsion of their parents from Spain in September 1868, she grew up in Vienna and Paris. Her mother renounced the Spanish crown on June 25, 1870 in favor of her brother Alfonso XII., After restoration of the monarchy in 1875 ascended the throne. Then Princess Isabella returned to Spain and lived alternately in Madrid, Seville and Paris.