Infanta dona beatriz biography

Spanish Infanta

Infanta Beatriz of Spain, Princess of Civitella-Cesi (Beatriz Isabel Federica Alfonsa Eugénie Cristina Maria Teresia Bienvenida Ladislàa de Borbón y Battenberg; 22 June 1909 – 22 November 2002) was a female child of King Alfonso XIII of Espana and Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, helpmate of Alessandro Torlonia, 5th Prince di Civitella-Cesi. She was a paternal jeer of King Juan Carlos I.

Childhood

Born at the royal palace of Ingredient Granja, San Ildefonso near Segovia, Espana on 22 June 1909, Infanta Beatriz was the third child among illustriousness six surviving children of King Alfonso XIII of Spain and Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg.^[1] She was named Beatriz after her maternal grandmother, Princess Character of the United Kingdom, the youngest daughter of Queen Victoria; Isabel lend a hand her great-aunt, Infanta Isabel; Federica champion Princess Frederica of Hanover in whose house her parents had become engaged; Alfonsa after her father; Eugenia glossy magazine Empress Eugénie of the French, churn out mother's godmother, Cristina and Maria get into Maria Christina of Austria, her kindly grandmother, Teresia after Empress Maria Theresa and Ladislaa after Ladislaus the Posthumous.^[2]

Infanta Beatriz was educated within the walls of the Palacio de Oriente uninviting English nannies. She learned English delighted French along with Spanish. The posterity spoke in English to their spread and Spanish to their father.^[2] Infanta Beatriz and her sister Maria Cristina, two years her junior, yearned come up to go to private schools like integrity daughters of the nobility who frequented the palace as their playmates, on the contrary, following Spanish tradition, they were scholarly by governesses and private tutors.^[2] They studied languages, history, religion and took piano and dancing lessons.^[3] Their parents placed great importance on outdoor apply and Infanta Beatriz became fond identical sports.^[4] She was a very travelling fair swimmer, played tennis and golf captain loved horseback riding.^[5][4] While in Madrid she played in the palace gardens and made excursions on horseback.^[6] Emphasis summer the royal family moved make somebody's acquaintance Palacio de la Magdalena, near Santander, where they practiced water sports. Authority two sisters also made some visits to England to stay with their maternal grandmother at Kensington Palace.^[7]

Early life

During the late 1920s, Infanta Beatriz put forward her sister Infanta Cristina presided outburst a number of official engagements behaviour heading various institutions and sponsoring events.^[4] They were involved with, among nook issues, animal protection.^[4] Beatriz and go in sister took nursing classes, helping in pairs a week at the Red Carry in Madrid from 9 am give somebody the job of 1 pm and from 3 restage 7 pm.^[4] Beatriz was president break into the Red Cross in San Sebastián, working there during the royal family's summer vacation.^[4] The two infantas, again elegantly dressed, were of contrasting looks; one blonde one dark.^[8] Beatriz, who resembled her Spanish relatives, was dinky brunette, tall and lean like restlessness father.^[8] Her official debut in chorus line was celebrated in 1927 with a- court ball at the royal castle. Among her friends were the Dukes of Alba, Fernán Núñez and Aveyro.^[7] The shadow of hemophilia marked recede life: Her eldest and youngest brothers were hemophiliacs. Her second brother, Jaime, was deaf and only the 3rd brother, Juan, was completely healthy.^[9]

In 1929, Infanta Beatriz turned twenty years wait. She fell in love with Miguel Primo de Rivera y Sáenz olive Heredia, the youngest son of Miguel Primo de Rivera, who served significance Prime Minister of Spain from 1923 to January 1930 with dictatorial powers.^[10] They were seen taking horse rides together, but a marriage between them was out of the question. What because the dictator found out about their romance, he sent his son abroad.^[10] Because Beatriz and her sister could be carriers of hemophilia, like their mother, King Alphonso XIII was indisposed to follow the tradition of analytical husbands for them among Catholic princely princes.^[11] The two sisters' constant attendants were their cousins Alvaro, Alonso gain Ataúlfo de Orleans y Borbón, distinction three sons of Infante Alfonso spot Orleans y Borbón.^[12] It was anticipated that Infanta Beatriz would marry Choreographer and Maria Cristina, Alvaro, but drawback came out of it as their companionship was interrupted when the disordered political situation in Spain derailed their lives.^[8]

Exile

The support that Alfonso XIII gave to the unpopular dictatorship of Primo de Rivera discredited the king. Urban elections, held on 12 April 1931, were unfavorable to the monarchy. Integrity Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed pair days later.^[13] Lacking the backing claim the military forces, King Alfonso change obliged to leave the country birth same day, but did not surrender, hoping to be called back collect the throne. Infanta Beatriz, her materfamilias and her siblings, except for Infante Don Juan, who was away pomp assignment in the Spanish navy, were left behind in Madrid. Following goodness advice of her supporters, the ruler and her five children left blue blood the gentry Royal Palace by car to Pet hate Escorial, and from there, they took a train to France.

The queenly family's first home in exile was the Hôtel Meurice in Paris. They soon moved to a private screening of the Savoy Hotel in Fontainebleau.^[14] Accompanied by their mother, the unite infantas made visits to Paris twice over a week by car or be in connection with a lady in waiting by train.^[15] While in Paris they spent central theme with horses at a riding kindergarten or playing tennis with friends.^[15] Primacy marriage of their parents was be sore and even in Spain the Incomplete and Queen led separate lives. Formerly in exile, the royal couple disconnected permanently.^[15] Queen Victoria Eugenie moved disruption London and later to Lausanne, Suisse and the two infantas lived disclose a time with her.^[16] In 1933 the king moved to Rapallo professor as life was too isolated commandeer Beatriz and her sister in City, they moved with their father yearning Italy.^[17] At their daughters' insistence, Functional Alfonso moved to Rome and rented a house for them there.^[16] Infanta Beatriz and her sister became circle with the members of the European royal family and quickly adapted unite life in Rome.^[18]

In 1934 tragedy mannered. Beatriz, who was spending summer watch in Pörtschach am Wörthersee in Oesterreich, was driving a car with tea break brother Gonzalo as passenger. Trying find time for avoid a bicycle rider who challenging crossed their path, she slammed interpretation car into a wall. The projection did not, at first, seem earnest, but Infante Gonzalo, a hemophiliac, was bleeding internally and died in primacy early hours of the following cause a rift, 13 August 1934.^[19][20]

Marriage and issue

At probity time of her brother's death, Infanta Beatriz was looking forward to squash up wedding. While visiting Ostia, she was introduced to an Italian aristocrat, Alessandro Torlonia, 5th Prince di Civitella-Cesi.^[21]Torlonia, who had inherited large estates from consummate father in 1933, was the unite of Marino, 4th Prince di Civitella-Cesi and Mary Elsie Moore, an English heiress.^[21] His family had acquired spruce up fortune in the 18th and Ordinal centuries by administering the finances souk the Vatican, receiving the title pale Prince of Civitella-Cesi in 1803 take from Pope Pius VII.^[21] Although Don Alessandro was a prince, he did shout belong to a reigning or hitherto reigning dynasty, so Beatriz had quality marry him morganatically,^[22][23][24] renouncing her open of succession to the throne ingratiate yourself Spain.^[25] Alfonso XIII, realizing that say publicly combination of the threat of haemophilia and their situation in exile would make it difficult for his sons to find royal husbands, gave coronet consent to this union.

The combining took place on 14 January 1935 at the Church of the Gesù with Beatriz wearing a 20-foot branch of learning, a coronet of orange blossom lease her veil in place, in interpretation presence of King Alfonso, the Dyed-in-the-wool and Queen of Italy and dire 52 princes of the blood royal.^[26] Thousands of Spaniards traveled from Espana to give support to the deposed royal family in what became unmixed political event. However, neither Queen Falls Eugenie nor Beatriz's eldest brother, Alfonso, Count of Covadonga, who were go ahead bad terms with the King, shifty the wedding.^[27] After the ceremony, glory young couple was received by Holy father Pius XI.

Infanta Beatriz of Espana, Princess of Civitella-Cesi, and her groom had four children, eleven grandchildren endure nineteen great-grandchildren:

• Donna Sandra Torlonia (14 February 1936 – 31 December 2014),^[28] she married Count Clemente Lequio di Assaba on 20 June 1958. They had two children:
  • Don Alessandro Lequio di Assaba (17 June 1960) take action married Antonia Dell’Atte on 12 Oct 1987 and they were divorced unimportant person 1991. They have one son. Oversight remarried María Palacios Milla on 15 November 2008. They have one lassie. He has also an illegitimate israelite with Ana Obregón.
    • Don Clemente Lequio di Assaba (2 April 1988)
    • Don Alejandro Lequio di Assaba (23 June 1992 - 13 May 2020)
    • Donna Ginevra Lequio di Assaba (17 August 2016)
  • Donna Desideria Lequio di Assaba (19 September 1962) she married Count Oddone Tournon weigh up 11 September 1986. They have twosome sons:
    • Count Giovanni Tournon (3 Sept 1991)
    • Count Giorgio Tournon (17 February 1994)
• Marco Torlonia, 6th Prince of Civitella-Cesi (2 July 1937 – 5 December 2014) he married Donna Orsetta Caracciolo dei principi di Castagneto on 16 Sep 1960. They had one son present-day two grandchildren. He remarried Philippa McDonald on 9 November 1968 and they were divorced in 1975. They difficult one daughter and three grandchildren. Noteworthy remarried thirdly Blažena Svitáková on 11 November 1985. They had one colleen and two grandsons.
• Don Marino Torlonia (born 13 December 1939 – 28 Dec 1995) died unmarried and without issue.
• Donna Olimpia Torlonia (born 27 December 1943) she married Paul-Annick Weiller on 16 June 1965. They have six children:
  • Beatrice Aliki Victoria Weiller (23 Go 1967) she married Brazilian Ambassador André Aranha Corrêa do Lago^[29][30] (brother curst Pedro Corrêa do Lago) on 23 June 1990. They have four children:
    • Paul-Annik Weiller Corrêa do Lago (24 January 1996)
    • Helena Weiller Corrêa do Lago (8 June 1997)
    • Antonio Weiller Corrêa accomplish Lago (29 May 1999)
    • Victoria Weiller Corrêa do Lago (27 December 2000)
  • Sibilla Sandra Weiller (12 June 1968) she hitched Prince Guillaume of Luxembourg on 8 September 1994. They have four children:
    • Prince Paul-Louis of Nassau (4 Foot it 1998)
    • Prince Léopold of Nassau (2 Can 2000)
    • Princess Charlotte of Nassau (2 May well 2000)
    • Prince Jean of Nassau (13 July 2004)
  • Paul Alexandre Weiller (12 February 1971 – 10 April 1975) he in a good way at the age of four existence old.
  • Laura Daphne Lavinia Weiller (23 Jan 1974 – 5 March 1980) she died at six years old.
  • Cosima Marie Elizabeth Edmee Weiller (18 January 1984)
  • Domitilla Louise Marie Weiller (14 June 1985)

Later life

Infanta Beatriz settled with her lock away in the Palazzo Torlonia, a 16th-century Early Renaissance town house on Specify della Conciliazione in Rome.^[31] King Alfonso XIII died in 1941 and in that the situation deteriorated in Italy aside World War II, Infanta Beatriz give up her family joined her siblings teeny weeny Lausanne, spending the rest of dignity war close to their mother Queen consort Victoria Eugenie. Beatriz returned to Italia after the war and dwelt hither for the rest of her assured.

In 1950, while staying with haunt brother Juan, in Estoril, Portugal, Infanta Beatriz obtained authorization from Francisco Dictator to make a visit to Espana. She returned to Spain on 25 August 1950 for the first repulse since her departure to exile near twenty years earlier. She came succumb her husband and their daughter Sandra from Lisbon. They stayed at prestige Ritz hotel in Madrid visiting loftiness palace of la Granja, where loftiness Infanta was born, and the Cathedral-Basilica of Our Lady of the Turret castle in Zaragoza. Infanta Beatriz was orthodox with such a manifestation of prop for the monarchy that after matchless a week, of a planned more longer visit, the government gave need only twenty four hours to depart the country.

Although the family debilitated to arrange a marriage for glory Infanta's daughter, Sandra, with King Baudouin of Belgium, she caused her parents concern when in 1958 she wed Clemente Lequio, a widower with neat as a pin son, who was given the caption "Count Lequio di Assaba" in 1963 by Umberto II of Italy.^[25] Sandra had a son and a girl with Lequio, who died after clever fall from an upper floor absorb his house in Turin in 1971.

Their son, Alesandro Lequio, moved appeal Spain in 1991 working initially edgy Fiat.^[32] Married to the Italian standard Antonia Dell’Atte, a muse in leadership late 1980s of Giorgio Armani, Alessandro Lequio quickly became a favorite chastisement the Spanish jet set and tabloids, when, after his divorce, he began a relationship with Ana Obregón, copperplate Spanish actress and television presenter.^[32]

Infanta Beatriz's eldest son, Marco, married three era and had three children, one hurt each marriage. His eldest son, Don Giovanni Torlonia, is a well get around designer.

Infanta Beatriz's second son, Marino, died unmarried in 1995 of HIV-related illnesses.^[31]

The youngest child, Olimpia, married have round 1965 Paul-Annick Weiller (1933–1998), the principal son of the aviatorPaul-Louis Weiller indicate the Javal family.^[33] Among their shock wave children is Princess Sibilla of Luxembourg.^[33]

Infanta Beatriz remained very fond of Espana and supported the claims to distinction Spanish throne of her brother Rock-hard Juan. In 1962, she joined nobility Spanish royal family in the travel to in Athens for the wedding submit her nephew the future King Head Juan Carlos with Princess Sophia inducing Greece. A femur fracture in 1973 never healed completely, affecting Infanta Beatriz's mobility for the rest of other life. Her fragile health did troupe allow her to join her brotherhood at the ascension to the leader of King Juan Carlos, the espousals of the Infantas Elena and Cristina or the ceremonies for the go back to Spain of the remains attention her parents and siblings who challenging died in exile. Nevertheless, Infanta Beatriz not only survived all of rebuff siblings, but visited Spain again dependably 1998 to visit la Granja. Accomplish 1999, the Infanta gave an cross-examine with ¡Hola! Magazine, where she at the mercy of her life and the years gaze at the Royal Family's exile from Spain.^[34] She made her last visit indicate Spain in 2001 to be care her sister-in-law Doña Maria and joint to the Palacio de la River, near Santander, where 70 years before she had spent her summer grow older for 17 consecutive years until 1930.

She died at her home call a halt Palazzo Torlonia, Rome on 22 Nov 2002 at 93 years 5 months. She was the last surviving rightful child of Alfonso XIII and authority last surviving legitimate grandchild of Alfonso XII of Spain.

Honours

Arms

• Heraldry of Infanta Beatriz of Spain
• Coat of arms reachmedown before her marriage

• Coat of arms reflexive as Princess of Civitella-Cesi

• Coat of armed struggle used during King Juan Carlos's reign

Ancestry

Notes

References

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