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The bombing on May 31, 1906 Morral threw the bomb from the top balcony of this hotel, killing those on the balconies below. The Morral affair was the attempted regicide of Spanish King Alfonso XIII and his bride, Queen Victoria Eugenie, on their wedding day, May 31, 1906, and its subsequent effects.
Alfonso and Victoria were married at the Royal Monastery of San Jerónimo in Madrid on 31 May 1906, with British royalty in attendance, including Victoria's cousins the Prince and Princess of Wales (later King George V and Queen Mary). The wedding was marked by an assassination attempt on Alfonso and Victoria by Catalan anarchist Mateu Morral ...
Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, Queen Victoria youngest granddaughter, marries Spain’s Alfonso XIII at Madrid’s San Jerónimo Royal Monastery on May 31, 1906.
King Alfonso XIII and Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg first met at the state banquet offered by King Edward VII –Victoria Eugenie's uncle– at Buckingham Palace to the Spanish King in his state visit to the United Kingdom in 1905. Alfonso was seated between Queen Alexandra and Princess Helena, King Edward's sister. He noticed ...
Alfonso XIII became King of Spain at the moment of his birth in May 1886 because his father, Alfonso XII, had died five months earlier.His mother, Maria Christina of Austria, was regent until May 1902, when he turned sixteen and took the oath of office under the Constitution of 1876, when he began his personal reign, which lasted until 14 April 1931, when he had to go into exile after the ...
Beatrice (1857–1944), Victoria's ninth and last child, and wife of Prince Henry of Battenberg (1858–1896) passed it on to at least two, if not three, of her four children: Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg (1887–1969), later Queen Victoria Eugenia of Spain through her marriage to King Alfonso XIII (1886–1940), who passed it on to:
Doña Victoria was born as the eldest daughter of Don Luis Jesús Fernández de Córdoba y Salabert, 17th Duke of Medinaceli, and Doña Ana María Fernández de Henestrosa y Gayoso de los Cobos. She was baptized in the Royal Chamber of the Royal Palace of Madrid, with Queen Victoria Eugenie and King Alfonso XIII of Spain serving as her godparents.
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