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Edelmira, Countess of Covadonga. Edelmira Ignacia Adriana Sampedro-Ocejo y Robato (5 March 1906 – 23 May 1994) was known as the Countess of Covadonga after her marriage to Alfonso, former Prince of Asturias, in 1933. Early life and marriage. Alfonso and Edelmira.
May 1, 2022 · Edelmira Ignacia Adriana Sampedro-Ocejo y Robato was known as Countess of Covadonga after her marriage to Alfonso, former Prince of Asturias, in 1933. The Countess was the daughter of a Cuban merchant, Luciano Pablo Sampedro y Ocejo, later hyphenated to Sampedro-Ocejo, and wife Edelmira Robato y Turro, later hyphenated Robato-Turro.
Jun 21, 2023 · The couple divorced in 1937, with Edelmira keeping the title Countess of Covadonga until her death in 1994, while Prince Alfonso died in a car crash due to his haemophilia in 1938 after a short lived second marriage.
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Edelmira, Countess of Covadonga. Edelmira Ignacia Adriana de Sampedro-Ocejo y Robato (5 March 1906 in Sagua La Grande – 23 May 1994 in Coral Gables, Florida) was known as Countess of Covadonga after her marriage to Alfonso, former Prince of Asturias, in 1933.
In a change of attitude from her in-laws, Edelmira retained the title Countess of Covadonga, and lived in Havana. For over 60 years she refused all interviews, and never remarried. By all accounts the Spanish Royal family treated her with respect and accorded her the rights and status of a royal widow.
There had been plans for young Alfonso's deposition from succession, but ultimately he himself renounced his rights to the then-defunct throne to marry a commoner, Edelmira Sampedro y Robato, religiously in Ouchy on 21 June 1933, after which Alfonso took the courtesy title Count of Covadonga.
Edelmira Ignacia Adriana Sampedro-Ocejo y Robato (5 March 1906 – 23 May 1994) was known as the Countess of Covadonga after her marriage to Alfonso, former Prince of Asturias, in 1933.
