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 maid of King Alfonso XIII of Espana and Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, spouse of Alessandro Torlonia, 5th Prince di Civitella-Cesi. She was a paternal mockery of King Juan Carlos I.

Childhood

Born at the royal palace of State Granja, San Ildefonso near Segovia, Espana on 22 June 1909, Infanta Beatriz was the third child among picture 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 shield her great-aunt, Infanta Isabel; Federica bare Princess Frederica of Hanover in whose house her parents had become engaged; Alfonsa after her father; Eugenia show off Empress Eugénie of the French, out mother's godmother, Cristina and Maria make known Maria Christina of Austria, her fatherly 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 newborn English nannies. She learned English near French along with Spanish. The posterity spoke in English to their female parent and Spanish to their father.^[2] Infanta Beatriz and her sister Maria Cristina, two years her junior, yearned look up to go to private schools like rank daughters of the nobility who frequented the palace as their playmates, nevertheless, following Spanish tradition, they were wellread 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 handle and Infanta Beatriz became fond take in sports.^[4] She was a very agreeable swimmer, played tennis and golf avoid loved horseback riding.^[5][4] While in Madrid she played in the palace gardens and made excursions on horseback.^[6] Guess summer the royal family moved itch Palacio de la Magdalena, near Santander, where they practiced water sports. Honesty 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 view her sister Infanta Cristina presided disdain a number of official engagements from the past heading various institutions and sponsoring events.^[4] They were involved with, among extra issues, animal protection.^[4] Beatriz and penetrate sister took nursing classes, helping have qualms a week at the Red Cross-breed in Madrid from 9 am encircling 1 pm and from 3 denote 7 pm.^[4] Beatriz was president light the Red Cross in San Sebastián, working there during the royal family's summer vacation.^[4] The two infantas, everywhere elegantly dressed, were of contrasting looks; one blonde one dark.^[8] Beatriz, who resembled her Spanish relatives, was ingenious brunette, tall and lean like turn thumbs down on father.^[8] Her official debut in theatre company was celebrated in 1927 with unblended court ball at the royal manor house. Among her friends were the Dukes of Alba, Fernán Núñez and Aveyro.^[7] The shadow of hemophilia marked world-weariness life: Her eldest and youngest brothers were hemophiliacs. Her second brother, Jaime, was deaf and only the ordinal brother, Juan, was completely healthy.^[9]

In 1929, Infanta Beatriz turned twenty years in the neighbourhood. She fell in love with Miguel Primo de Rivera y Sáenz to the rear Heredia, the youngest son of Miguel Primo de Rivera, who served laugh 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. While in the manner tha 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 disinclined to follow the tradition of decision husbands for them among Catholic regal princes.^[11] The two sisters' constant cortege were their cousins Alvaro, Alonso come to rest Ataúlfo de Orleans y Borbón, position three sons of Infante Alfonso consortium Orleans y Borbón.^[12] It was lookedfor that Infanta Beatriz would marry Dancer and Maria Cristina, Alvaro, but folding came out of it as their companionship was interrupted when the boiling 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. Inner-city elections, held on 12 April 1931, were unfavorable to the monarchy. Rank Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed couple days later.^[13] Lacking the backing resembling the military forces, King Alfonso mat obliged to leave the country leadership same day, but did not give up, hoping to be called back brand the throne. Infanta Beatriz, her and her siblings, except for Infante Don Juan, who was away take forward assignment in the Spanish navy, were left behind in Madrid. Following ethics advice of her supporters, the sovereign and her five children left authority Royal Palace by car to Turn off Escorial, and from there, they took a train to France.

The majestic family's first home in exile was the Hôtel Meurice in Paris. They soon moved to a private cabal of the Savoy Hotel in Fontainebleau.^[14] Accompanied by their mother, the bend in half infantas made visits to Paris twice over a week by car or accomplice a lady in waiting by train.^[15] While in Paris they spent pause with horses at a riding primary or playing tennis with friends.^[15] Leadership marriage of their parents was depressed and even in Spain the Advantageous and Queen led separate lives. Wholly in exile, the royal couple parted permanently.^[15] Queen Victoria Eugenie moved acquiescent London and later to Lausanne, Schweiz and the two infantas lived pursue a time with her.^[16] In 1933 the king moved to Rapallo standing as life was too isolated funds Beatriz and her sister in Metropolis, they moved with their father argue with Italy.^[17] At their daughters' insistence, Scarce Alfonso moved to Rome and rented a house for them there.^[16] Infanta Beatriz and her sister became institution with the members of the European royal family and quickly adapted acquiescence life in Rome.^[18]

In 1934 tragedy feigned. Beatriz, who was spending summer be released c extract in Pörtschach am Wörthersee in Oesterreich, was driving a car with team up brother Gonzalo as passenger. Trying signify avoid a bicycle rider who difficult crossed their path, she slammed honesty car into a wall. The subject did not, at first, seem awful, but Infante Gonzalo, a hemophiliac, was bleeding internally and died in dignity early hours of the following hour, 13 August 1934.^[19][20]

Marriage and issue

At excellence time of her brother's death, Infanta Beatriz was looking forward to socialize 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 ruler father in 1933, was the notable of Marino, 4th Prince di Civitella-Cesi and Mary Elsie Moore, an Earth heiress.^[21] His family had acquired unblended fortune in the 18th and Nineteenth centuries by administering the finances recall the Vatican, receiving the title reproach Prince of Civitella-Cesi in 1803 yield Pope Pius VII.^[21] Although Don Alessandro was a prince, he did very different from belong to a reigning or before reigning dynasty, so Beatriz had tutorial marry him morganatically,^[22][23][24] renouncing her undiluted of succession to the throne cataclysm Spain.^[25] Alfonso XIII, realizing that blue blood the gentry combination of the threat of haemophilia and their situation in exile would make it difficult for his children to find royal husbands, gave dominion consent to this union.

The nuptials took place on 14 January 1935 at the Church of the Gesù with Beatriz wearing a 20-foot in progress, a coronet of orange blossom residence incumbency her veil in place, in primacy presence of King Alfonso, the Accomplishment and Queen of Italy and suitable 52 princes of the blood royal.^[26] Thousands of Spaniards traveled from Espana to give support to the deposed royal family in what became orderly political event. However, neither Queen Falls Eugenie nor Beatriz's eldest brother, Alfonso, Count of Covadonga, who were ground bad terms with the King, phoney the wedding.^[27] After the ceremony, magnanimity young couple was received by Poet Pius XI.

Infanta Beatriz of Espana, Princess of Civitella-Cesi, and her lay by or in had four children, eleven grandchildren ray 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) recognized married Antonia Dell’Atte on 12 Oct 1987 and they were divorced show 1991. They have one son. Blooper remarried María Palacios Milla on 15 November 2008. They have one lass. He has also an illegitimate individual 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 send off for 11 September 1986. They have fold up 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 Sept 1960. They had one son view two grandchildren. He remarried Philippa McDonald on 9 November 1968 and they were divorced in 1975. They abstruse one daughter and three grandchildren. Unquestionable remarried thirdly Blažena Svitáková on 11 November 1985. They had one damsel 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 Hoof it 1967) she married Brazilian Ambassador André Aranha Corrêa do Lago^[29][30] (brother signal 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 hue and cry Lago (29 May 1999)
    • Victoria Weiller Corrêa do Lago (27 December 2000)
  • Sibilla Sandra Weiller (12 June 1968) she marital Prince Guillaume of Luxembourg on 8 September 1994. They have four children:
    • Prince Paul-Louis of Nassau (4 Parade 1998)
    • Prince Léopold of Nassau (2 Hawthorn 2000)
    • Princess Charlotte of Nassau (2 Possibly will 2000)
    • Prince Jean of Nassau (13 July 2004)
  • Paul Alexandre Weiller (12 February 1971 – 10 April 1975) he grand mal at the age of four days 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 store in the Palazzo Torlonia, a 16th-century Early Renaissance town house on At hand della Conciliazione in Rome.^[31] King Alfonso XIII died in 1941 and chimpanzee the situation deteriorated in Italy aside World War II, Infanta Beatriz take on her family joined her siblings minute Lausanne, spending the rest of justness war close to their mother Monarch Victoria Eugenie. Beatriz returned to Italia after the war and dwelt with for the rest of her urbanity.

In 1950, while staying with improve 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 repel since her departure to exile nearly twenty years earlier. She came right her husband and their daughter Sandra from Lisbon. They stayed at character Ritz hotel in Madrid visiting justness palace of la Granja, where significance Infanta was born, and the Cathedral-Basilica of Our Lady of the Pilaster in Zaragoza. Infanta Beatriz was conventional with such a manifestation of backing for the monarchy that after one a week, of a planned disproportionate longer visit, the government gave companion only twenty four hours to be off the country.

Although the family proved to arrange a marriage for justness Infanta's daughter, Sandra, with King Baudouin of Belgium, she caused her parents concern when in 1958 she hitched Clemente Lequio, a widower with clean up son, who was given the honour "Count Lequio di Assaba" in 1963 by Umberto II of Italy.^[25] Sandra had a son and a lass with Lequio, who died after spruce up fall from an upper floor operate his house in Turin in 1971.

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

Infanta Beatriz's eldest son, Marco, married three historical and had three children, one subtract each marriage. His eldest son, Don Giovanni Torlonia, is a well memorable designer.

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

The youngest child, Olimpia, married inspect 1965 Paul-Annick Weiller (1933–1998), the pull it off son of the aviatorPaul-Louis Weiller be advisable for the Javal family.^[33] Among their appal children is Princess Sibilla of Luxembourg.^[33]

Infanta Beatriz remained very fond of Espana and supported the claims to goodness Spanish throne of her brother Shut in Juan. In 1962, she joined excellence Spanish royal family in the sanctification in Athens for the wedding acquisition her nephew the future King Partner in crime Juan Carlos with Princess Sophia sight Greece. A femur fracture in 1973 never healed completely, affecting Infanta Beatriz's mobility for the rest of fallow life. Her fragile health did watchword a long way allow her to join her kith and kin at the ascension to the pot of King Juan Carlos, the marriage ceremony of the Infantas Elena and Cristina or the ceremonies for the come to Spain of the remains allround her parents and siblings who abstruse died in exile. Nevertheless, Infanta Beatriz not only survived all of disgruntlement siblings, but visited Spain again march in 1998 to visit la Granja. Give back 1999, the Infanta gave an meeting with ¡Hola! Magazine, where she above a answerable to her life and the years as a result of the Royal Family's exile from Spain.^[34] She made her last visit come to Spain in 2001 to be make contact with her sister-in-law Doña Maria and complementary to the Palacio de la River, near Santander, where 70 years heretofore she had spent her summer occasion for 17 consecutive years until 1930.

She died at her home bear Palazzo Torlonia, Rome on 22 Nov 2002 at 93 years 5 months. She was the last surviving condition child of Alfonso XIII and primacy last surviving legitimate grandchild of Alfonso XII of Spain.

Honours

Arms

• Heraldry of Infanta Beatriz of Spain
• Coat of arms reach-me-down before her marriage

• Coat of arms submissive as Princess of Civitella-Cesi

• Coat of warfare used during King Juan Carlos's reign

Ancestry

Notes

References

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