Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and C%C3%A1diz


Alfonso, Duke of Anjou, Duke of Cdiz, Grandee of Spain was a grandson of exKing Alfonso XIII of Spain, a potential heir to the throne in the event of restoration of the Spanish monarchy, and a Legitimist claimant to the defunct throne of France as Alphonse II.

Alfonso was born in the Clinica Santa Anna in Rome, the elder son of Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia, King Alfonsos second of four sons. His mother was Jaimes first wife, Donna Emanuela de Dampierre, daughter of the FrancoItalian Duke de San Lorenzo. The Segovias lived in Rome where Jaimes father had maintained a royal courtinexile since the royal family fled Spain following the 1931 election of republicans and socialists in Spains major cities. Alfonso was baptised at the Palazzo Ruspoli on the Via del Corso in Rome, home of his maternal grandmother, Donna Vittoria Ruspoli dei principi di Poggio Suasa, by Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli .

Source: Wikipedia


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