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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...
...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...
...Pops Orchestra, under Arthur Fiedler, will present the following program in Symphony Hall tonight: Military Polonaise Chopin-Glazounov "Midsummer Night's Dream" Overture Mendelssohn "Rosamunde" Entr'acte Schubert "Carmen" Fantasia Bizet Sonatine Transatlantique Tansman "Pavane for a Dead Infanta" Ravel "Nutcrackor" Ballet Suite Tchaikovsky "Show Boat" Selections Kern "Blue Danube" Waltz Strauss Fifth Hungarian Dance Brahms