Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and 1st Duke of Cádiz Grandee of Spain (Alfonso Jaime Marcelino Manuel Victor María de Borbón y Dampierre, French citizen as Alphonse de Bourbon) (20 April 1936 – 30 January 1989) was a grandson of King Alfonso XIII of Spain and a legitimist claimant to the throne of France.
Alfonso was born in the Clinica Santa Anna in Rome, the elder son of Infante Jaime of Spain and of his wife, Emmanuelle de Dampierre. He was baptised a...
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Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and 1st Duke of Cádiz Grandee of Spain (Alfonso Jaime Marcelino Manuel Victor María de Borbón y Dampierre, French citizen as Alphonse de Bourbon) (20 April 1936 – 30 January 1989) was a grandson of King Alfonso XIII of Spain and a legitimist claimant to the throne of France.
Alfonso was born in the Clinica Santa Anna in Rome, the elder son of Infante Jaime of Spain and of his wife, Emmanuelle de Dampierre. He was baptised at the home of his maternal grandmother, the Italian princess Donna Vittoria Ruspoli, of the princes of Poggio Suasa, the Palazzo Ruspoli, on the Via del Corso by Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli (later Pope Pius XII).
Since Alfonso's mother was not born a princess of royal descent, his grandfather Alfonso XIII did not consider young Alfonso in line to the Spanish throne in accordance with the Pragmatic Sanction of 1776. Alfonso's father Jaime disagreed, however, and maintained that his sons were Spanish dynasts with the style of Royal Highness. In...
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