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Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg (Victoria Eugenie Julia Ena; 24 October 1887 – 15 April 1969) was Queen of Spain as the wife of King Alfonso XIII from their marriage on 31 May 1906 until 14 April 1931, when the Spanish Second Republic was proclaimed.
- 31 May 1906 – 14 April 1931
- Battenberg
The wedding of Alfonso XIII, King of Spain, and Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg took place on Thursday, 31 May 1906, at the Church of Saint Jerome the Royal in Madrid, Spain. The groom was the reigning king of Spain since his birth and the bride was a princess from a cadet branch of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt and a granddaughter of ...
May 31, 2021 · On 31 May 1906, Madrid lavishly celebrated a royal wedding. King Alfonso XIII of Spain, who had been born posthumously to King Alfonso XII of Spain and Maria Christina of Austria, was set the marry the beautiful 18-year-old Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg. Victoria Eugenie was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria through her youngest ...
May 30, 2017 · King Alfonso XIII of Spain and Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg were married on May 31, 1906, at the Royal Monastery of San Jerónimo in Madrid, Spain. King Alfonso XIII of Spain’s Background. King Alfonso XIII of Spain with his mother and sisters, 1897; Credit – Wikipedia.
May 4, 2017 · The seventeen-year-old Victoria Eugenie first met her future husband, the nineteen-year-old King Alfonso XIII of Spain in 1905, during the King’s tour of Europe in search of a bride, at a dinner gathering at Buckingham Palace.
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Aug 17, 2015 · Alfonso XIII had been Spain’s king since the day of his birth, his father having died six months before the arrival of his only son. In 1905, now aged 19, Alfonso decided he needed a wife and...
Mar 25, 2011 · After breakfasting together with the bride’s mother, Princess Henry of Battenberg, Princess Ena, clothed in white, but with a blue feather in her hat, entered an electric brougham with King Alfonso, who was in admiral’s uniform.
