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2 unusual facts about Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg


Automotive industry in Spain

A 25cv sports version of the Tipo 20 was produced in 1919 as the Reine Victoria (name of the Queen consorts).

Reina Victoria Eugenia-class battleship

The class, as well as the lead ship, were named for King Alfonso XIII's English queen consort.


British princess

There is also the curious case of Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, later Queen Victoria Eugenia of Spain (the daughter of Princess Beatrice and Prince Henry of Battenberg).

Duchess Marie Antoinette of Mecklenburg

She was German Kasier Wilhelm II's candidate for a bride for King Alfonso XIII of Spain although he would married Princess Victoria Eugenie, niece of British King Edward VII.

Liudvikas Jakavičius

It is worth mentioning that in our days the Jakavičius – Grimalauskas Dynasty continuing related with European nobility and monarchy, proof of that was the relationsship as "fiance" of Marcia Bell and HRH Gonzalo de Borbón y Dampierre, Duke of Aquitaine and grandson of Spanish monarchs Alfonso XIII & Queen Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg (also granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom).


see also

Juan III

Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona (1913–1993), third surviving son and designated heir of King Alfonso XIII of Spain and Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg