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Alfonso XIII (Spanish: Alfonso León Fernando María Jaime Isidro Pascual Antonio de Borbón y Habsburgo-Lorena; French: Alphonse Léon Ferdinand Marie Jacques Isidore Pascal Antoine de Bourbon; 17 May 1886 – 28 February 1941), also known as El Africano or the African due to his Africanist views, was King of Spain from his birth until 14 ...
May 13, 2024 · Alfonso XIII was a Spanish king (1902–31) who by authorizing a military dictatorship hastened his own deposition by advocates of the Second Republic. The posthumous son of Alfonso XII, Alfonso XIII was immediately proclaimed king under the regency of his mother, María Cristina.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
When Alfonso XIII, at the age of sixteen, acceded to the throne in May 1902, the government was presided over by Práxedes Mateo Sagasta, the elderly leader of the Liberal Party, one of the two parties in power together with the Conservative Party.
Alfonso XIII was a controversial Spanish king during the first decades of the 20 th century. During the First World War he established a humanitarian office for prisoners and civilian relief at the Royal Palace in Madrid.
Alfonso XIII, also known as El Africano or the African due to his Africanist views, was King of Spain from his birth until 14 April 1931, when the Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed.
Sep 22, 2023 · Alfonso XIII of Spain was intelligent, spirited and loved to sport a uniform, but he reigned during a time of political, military and civil unrest. Thirteen was indeed an unlucky number for this monarch. He had no part to play in General Franco's Spain.
Jan 19, 2018 · Alfonso mobilized Spanish diplomats throughout Europe and found the missing husband in a German prisoner-of-war camp. The king personally wrote a letter to the French woman to give her the news. He also sent her some money.
