Word: arrizola
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...Madrid last week Deputy Jiminez Asua made formal request to the Supreme Court to reopen the famed de Arrizola case of 1901 on the basis of new evidence in behalf of the plaintiff and proof of forgery presented by the defendant. Alfonso XIII. The move called world attention to a cause célèbre of 20 years ago, to ex-King Alfonso mouse-quiet in Fontainbleau and to the state of the Spanish Republic...
Unlike Don Jaime de Bourbon, Alfonso XIII's cousin, Alfonso Sanz y Martinez de Arrizola never claimed to be the rightful King of Spain, but he did claim that the Spanish royal family owed him a living, promised him an inheritance and defaulted its obligation. The story...
Carolina Martinez de Arrizola. According to legend he presented her with two sons and a complaisant husband, one Sanz. In 1885 Alfonso XII suddenly died. Three months after his death it was suddenly announced that the Queen was pregnant. Three months later Alfonso XIII was born and the little Sanz y Martinez de Arrizola boys, aged 2 and 5, were hastily smuggled to France...
When Alfonso Sanz y Martinez de Arrizola was 20 in 1901 he brought suit in French courts claiming that the inheritance settlement promised him had never been paid. According to Deputy Asua the case was quashed when King Alfonso, Don Carlos de Bourbon and Fernando Marlo de Baviera presented documents disproving the entire story. In France the case dragged on & on. Should Deputy Asua's charges of last week stick, it may be possible for the Spanish government to demand Alfonso XIII's extradition on charges of forgery. True or false the affair revived not only...
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