Word: infanta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must suspect that he is financially strapped. When Alfonso broke the engagement of his daughter Beatriz to her cousin Prince Alvaro d'Orléans (TIME, Nov. 16), he publicly announced that it was because she was a carrier of the dreaded disease. Not so proud was eccentric Infanta Eulalia, Prince Alvaro's grandmother. "Ridiculous!" she snapped. "Absurd! King Alfonso is not opposed. . . . We simply have been unable to make plans because none of us has any money. But I am going to sell my jewels. I've got to get money. Then, I hope, this marriage...
...Infanta could not put her hand on the jewels at the moment. During the War she had sent them from Paris to Madrid for safe keeping. They were still in a trunk in a relative's house. She wrote for the trunk immediately. Last week it arrived at her Paris house. The Infanta opened it, pulled out shawl after shawl, half a dozen old umbrellas. But not a jewel did she find...
...Beatriz and Maria Christina are like their mother. They are "carriers" of the dread blood disease haemophilia. When he had read the reports, Alfonso XIII as Head of the House of Bourbon issued this edict: Neither of his daughters may ever marry. Amid tremendous sensation the engagement of the Infanta Beatriz was broken last week. With her own hands she had made most of her wedding gown, was to have been married with semi-royal pomp at Fontainebleau...
...yachting cruise, Infantas Beatriz and Maria Christina, daughters of one-time King Alfonso XIII of Spain, landed at the little Irish village of Portaferry. Astonished townsfolk whispered to each other, giggled, pointed to the Infantas' flannel yachting trousers. Infanta Beatriz blushed, tried to hide behind her fiance, Don Alvaro Antonio D'Orleans...
Engaged. The Infanta Beatriz Isabel Federica Alfonsa Eugenia Cristina Maria Teresa Bienvenida Ladislaa, 21, daughter of King Alfonso XIII; and Don Alvaro Antonio Carlos Felipe Fernando of Orleans, 21, son of her father's cousin; at Fontainebleau, France...