Word: beatriz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...delicate and died young, Prince Maurice and Prince Leopold of Battenberg, only her eldest brother Alexander (now Marquess of Carisbrooke in England) is alive. Gossip in Europe says that the healthy members of King Alfonso's family are his two daughters, and that the eldest one, the Infanta Beatriz, has inherited Alfonso's clever brains also. She has dark eyes and hair like her father. Her sister, Infanta Maria Christina, is fair like her mother, Queen Victoria. . . . It is said that King Alfonso is anxious to marry his favorite child, Infanta Beatriz, now 18, to her first cousin...
...year and more King Albert and Queen Elizabeth have been seriously shopping for a princess. Where to look? Crown Prince Leopold,* for whom the princess was intended, is 24. Therefore the Spanish princesses would be a trifle young: Beatriz, 17, and Maria Christina, 14. Princess Giovanna of Italy is 18, but Rome and Brussels are not so near as they used to be before the appearance of Mussolini with his antipathy for Belgium. Princess Ileana of Rumania, sole unmarried daughter of a Balkan monarch, is of course only...
Refreshed by this escapade, Alfonso boarded a cross-channel packet, set sail for England accompanied by his consort and their eldest son and daughter, Alfonso, Prince of Asturias, 19, and the Infanta Beatriz...
...them bull stories? Most probably. But atavistic influences did more and today, if the Spanish in the 18-year-old Prince of Asturias makes him a bullfighting enthusiast, his Anglo-Ger-man conscience revolts and he becomes head of the Cruelty to Animals Society. If the 16-year-old Beatriz and the 14-year-old Cristina adore the toreador, they detest the cruel slaughter of bulls. Thus, the great-grand-children of Queen...
...London to visit her mother, the Princess Beatrice, went the Queen of Spain with her daughters the Infantas Beatriz and Cristina...