Infanta Maria Cristina of Spain [SEP] mother
Infanta María Cristina of Spain
Infanta Maria Cristina of Spain, Countess Marone ("Doña María Cristina Teresa Alejandra María de Guadalupe María de la Concepción Ildefonsa Victoria Eugenia de Borbón y Battenberg"; 12 December 1911 – 23 December 1996) was the fifth child and younger daughter of Alfonso XIII of Spain and Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg and paternal aunt of King Juan Carlos I.
Biography.
Biography Early life.
Infanta Maria Cristina was born at the Palacio Real in Madrid, Spain. The Spanish Royal Family left the country in
five children who survived infancy in the marriage of Queen Isabella II of Spain and the King consort Francisco de Asis of Bourbon, Duke of Cadiz. The infanta was christened the day following her birth as María del Pilar Berenguela Isabel Francisca de Asís Cristina Sebastiana Gabriela Francisca Caracciolo Saturnina. Her godparents were, her paternal aunt, Infanta Maria Cristina of Spain with her husband Infante Sebastian of Portugal and Spain, a couple who had married the previous year.
Queen Isabella II, Pilar's mother, paid little attention to her effeminate