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Felipe VI (Spanish: [feˈlipe ˈseksto]; [b] Felipe Juan Pablo Alfonso de Todos los Santos de Borbón y Grecia; born 30 January 1968) is King of Spain.In accordance with the Spanish Constitution, as monarch, he is head of state and commander-in-chief of the Spanish Armed Forces, holding the military rank of captain general, [3] [4] and also plays the role of the supreme representation of Spain ...
Posthumous son born to the late king 17 October 1904 Died Infanta María Teresa, 1882–1901, sister Infante Alfonso, Prince of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, 1901–1904, son Infante Alfonso, Prince of Bourbon-Two Sicilies: Nephew 17 October 1904 Mother died 10 May 1907 Son born to king Infante Fernando, Prince of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, 1904–1905, brother
Infanta Sofía is the younger daughter of King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia. She was born on 29 April 2007. [10] King Juan Carlos I is the former king of Spain, reigning from 1975 to 2014. He was born on 5 January 1938 as the eldest son and second child of Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona, and Princess María de las Mercedes, Countess of Barcelona.
Alfonso XIII's claim descended (due to his two eldest sons' renunciations) to his third son, Juan of Bourbon, Count of Barcelona, who was passed over in favour of his eldest son, whose title is King of Spain. The Count of Barcelona formally renounced his claims in favour of his son in 1977, two years after Franco's death and Juan Carlos's ...
In Spain, since his abdication, Juan Carlos has usually been referred to as the rey emérito ('king emeritus') by the press. [1] [2] Juan Carlos is the son of Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona, and grandson of Alfonso XIII, the last king of Spain before the abolition of the monarchy in 1931 and the subsequent declaration of the Second Spanish ...
Only in the reign of his son Philip II of Spain from 1556 did "King of Spain" become the usual way to refer to the monarch, in Spain and the rest of Europe. Philip's reign marked the peak of the Spanish Golden Age (1492–1659), a period of great colonial expansion and trade.
The following is the family tree of the Spanish monarchs starting from Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon till the present day. The former kingdoms of Aragon (see family tree), Castile (see family tree) and Navarre (see family tree) were independent kingdoms that unified in 1469 as personal union, with the marriage of the Catholic Monarchs, to become the Kingdom of Spain (de ...
In 1516 he became King of Spain as co-monarch of Castile and Aragon with his mother. Spain's possessions included the Castilian colonies of the West Indies and the Spanish Main, as well as Naples, Sicily, and Sardinia. At the death of his grandfather Maximilian in 1519, he inherited the Austrian hereditary lands and was elected as Holy Roman ...