King alfonso xiii of spain death
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He set up a military junta, called the Directory, and when government ministers complained to the King, Alfonso dismissed them. However, General Franco was trying to forge unity out of a very divided coalition of people opposed to the republic and that coalition included the Carlists. General Primo de Rivera became, effectively, dictator of Spain but told the public it was only a temporary measure to clean up the mess created by the corrupt and feuding political class.
This prompted his mother, María Cristina, Queen, consort of Alfonso XII, King of Spain (1858-1929) to resign the regency in 1902. Though King Alfonso refused to abdicate, he fled the country and remained in exile for the rest of his life.
The wandering king took up residence at Le Meurice in Paris and Brown’s hotel in London before establishing a permanent residence in Rome.
However, his earliest years as the official, if nominal, King of Spain were eventful ones for his country. After helping a French washerwoman find her husband, who was missing in action, in 1914, thousands of letters were sent asking for the Spanish king’s intervention in personal affairs. However, there were problems overseas in the last remnants of the once mighty Spanish empire.
In his public speeches, especially in the state opening of parliament, Alfonso XIII always emphasized Spanish neutrality and his commitment to peace, but in fact he was torn by conflicting opinions about the parties involved. At this the King took action as, if left un-checked, it would have made the military the source of authority in the country rather than the Crown and Alfonso XIII could not stand idly by while that happened.
When the infant was circumcised, he did not cease to bleed for hours confirming that the heir was indeed hemophiliac.
King Alfonso was said to hold Queen Victoria Eugenia responsible for tainting the Spanish royal bloodline – another son Gonzalo born in 1914 also had the disease – and the couple were estranged. There was immediately some objections from both countries.
10; source: Biblioteca Virtual de Prensa Histórica, http://prensahistorica.mcu.es/en/consulta/registro.cmd?id=10004053813; contributed by Carolina García Sanz.
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De Borbón, Alfonso
(King Alfonso XIII, El Africano [the African], El rey regeneracionista, The Regenerator)
King of Spain
Born 17 May 1886 in Madrid, Spain
Died 28 February 1941 in Rome, Italy
Summary
Alfonso XIII was a controversial Spanish king during the first decades of the 20th century.Forty members of the royal staff, as well as volunteers, worked together with Spanish diplomats all around Europe for prisoners’ relief. The office provided relief to more than 200,000 prisoners-of-war and evacuated nearly 70,000 civilians from unsafe zones. It was also known that Princess Victoria’s brother Leopold was afflicted with hemophilia and thus she could be a carrier of the hereditary disease.
The left was increasingly united while the right was increasingly divided.
In 1931 the republicans won a massive electoral victory and General Jose Sanjurjo warned the King that the army was no longer loyal to him (the son of a Carlist, Sanjurjo would later pledge loyalty to the republic, join in an attempted Carlist plot that failed, disavow the Carlists and proclaim his support for the republic only to then join in the national coup against the republic at the start of the civil war).
This office, in coordination with the Red Cross, consisted of several sections: missing-in-action soldiers; communications with occupied territories; war prisoners; repatriation of injured soldiers and civilians; internments in Switzerland; commutations; funding assistance for isolated people; and inspections carried out by Spanish delegates in Berlin, Vienna, and Rome.
The order was made on his account for the household of the Spanish royal family’s French Chateau d’Epinay-sur-Seine.