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4 unusual facts about Alfonso XII of Spain


Adelardo López de Ayala y Herrera

He took part in the revolution of 1868, wrote the Manifesto of Cadiz, took office as colonial minister, favored the candidature of Antoine, Duke of Montpensier, resigned in 1871, returned to his early conservative principles, and was a member of Alfonso XII's first cabinet.

Alfonso, Prince of Asturias

Alfonso XII of Spain (1857–1885), son of Isabella II of Spain and Francis, Duke of Cádiz

Alphonso I of Spain

There has not been a monarch known as Alphonso or Alfonso I of Spain, the first king of that name of the unified Spain being Alfonso XII of Spain (1874–1885).

François Achille Bazaine

By midsummer 1875, Bazaine had settled in Madrid, where he was treated with marked respect by the government of Alfonso XII, who were grateful for Bazaine's conspicuous bravery as a young Foreign Legion Officer in the Carlist War.


Joan Sella i Montserrat

Comer como un rey, published in 2009, shows the menus and banquets of Amadeus I, Count of Savoy and Alfonso XII of Spain.

Mariano Benlliure

the bronze equestrian statue of Alfonso XII of Spain, in Madrid's Buen Retiro Park, the centerpiece of a memorial designed by architect José Grases Riera


see also

María Teresa of Spain

Infanta Maria Teresa of Spain, Princess and Duchess of Bavaria, wife of Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria, Infante of Spain, daughter of Alfonso XII of Spain and Maria Christina of Austria