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Infante Alfonso of Spain

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Early life
Death and burial
Ancestors
Notes
Bibliography

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| name = Infante Alfonso
| full name = Alfonso Cristino Teresa Ángelo Francisco de Asís y Todos los Santos (et omnes sancti) de Borbón y Borbón-Dos Sicilias
| image = Juan Carlos de Borbón junto a su padre y su hermano Alfonso (1 de 1) - Fondo Marín-Kutxa Fototeka (cropped).jpg
| caption = Alfonso, aged 9
| house = Bourbon
| father = Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona
| mother = Princess Maria Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1941|10|3|df=y}}
| birth_place = Rome, Kingdom of Italy
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1956|3|29|1941|10|3|df=y}}
| death_place = Estoril, Portugal
| burial_date = 31 March 1956
| burial_place = Municipal Cemetery, Cascais, Portugal
15 October 1992
El Escorial
| religion=Roman Catholicism
}}

Infante Alfonso of Spain (Don Alfonso Cristino Teresa Ángelo Francisco de Asís y Todos los Santos de Borbón y Borbón Dos-Sicilias; 3 October 1941 – 29 March 1956) was the younger brother of King Juan Carlos of Spain.

Early life

Alfonso was born in Rome, the youngest son of the Infante Juan of Spain, Count of Barcelona and of his wife, Princess Maria Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. His godfather was the Infante Alfonso de Orleans y Borbón; his godmother was his father's sister Infanta Maria Cristina of Spain.^[1] Within his own family he was called Alfonsito to distinguish him from other family members with the name Alfonso.

When Alfonso was still just a baby, his family moved to Lausanne in Switzerland where they lived in the Villa Les Rocailles.^[2] In February 1946 the family moved to the Portuguese Riviera.^[3]

In 1947 Alfonso visited Spain for the first time at the invitation of caudillo Francisco Franco. In 1950 he and his brother Juan Carlos were sent to study in Spain.^[4] At first they lived in San Sebastián where a private school had been established in the Miramar Palace.^[5] In June 1954 they were received by General Franco at the Pardo Palace.^[6] Later Alfonso and Juan Carlos attended the military academy in Zaragoza.^[7]

Death and burial

On the evening of Maundy Thursday, 29 March 1956, Alfonso and Juan Carlos were at their parents' home Villa Giralda in Estoril, Portugal, for the Easter vacation, where Alfonso died in a gun accident. The Spanish Embassy in Portugal issued an official communiqué:^[8]

Whilst His Highness the Infante Alfonso was cleaning a revolver last evening with his brother, a shot was fired hitting his forehead and killing him in a few minutes. The accident took place at 20.30 hours, after the Infante's return from the Maundy Thursday religious service, during which he had received Holy Communion.

Alfonso had won a local junior golf tournament earlier on the day, then went to evening Mass and rushed up to the room to see Juan Carlos who had come home for the Easter holidays from military school. It is alleged that Juan Carlos began playing with a .22 caliber revolver that had apparently been given to Alfonso by General Franco.^[9]

^[10]

Rumors appeared in newspapers that the .22 caliber revolver had actually been held by Juan Carlos at the moment the shot was fired.

As they were the only two in the room, it is unclear how Alfonso was shot but according to Josefina Carolo, dressmaker to Juan Carlos's mother, Juan Carlos pointed the pistol at Alfonso and pulled the trigger, unaware that the pistol was loaded. Bernardo Arnoso, a Portuguese friend of Juan Carlos, also said that Juan Carlos fired the pistol not knowing that it was loaded, and adding that the bullet ricocheted off a wall hitting Alfonso in the face. Helena Matheopoulos, a Greek author who spoke with Juan Carlos's sister Pilar, said that Alfonso had been out of the room and when he returned and pushed the door open, the door knocked Juan Carlos in the arm causing him to fire the pistol.^[11]^[12]

It is alleged that Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona, the children's father, had thrown the gun into the sea sometime after Alfonso's death.{{Citation needed|date=November 2017}}

The funeral liturgy for Alfonso was held on Holy Saturday and was presided by Monsignor Fernando Cento, Apostolic Nuncio to Portugal. He was buried at the municipal cemetery in Cascais, Portugal. In October 1992 he was re-buried in the Pantheon of the Princes of El Escorial near Madrid.

Ancestors

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| 3 = 3. Princess María de las Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
| 4 = 4. Alfonso XIII of Spain
| 5 = 5. Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg
| 6 = 6. Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
| 7 = 7. Princess Louise of Orléans
| 8 = 8. Alfonso XII of Spain
| 9 = 9. Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria
| 10 = 10. Prince Henry of Battenberg
| 11 = 11. Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom
| 12 = 12. Prince Alfonso, Count of Caserta
| 13 = 13. Princess Maria Antonietta of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
| 14 = 14. Prince Philippe, Count of Paris
| 15 = 15. Princess Marie Isabelle of Orléans
| 16 = 16. Infante Francisco de Asís of Spain
| 17 = 17. Isabella II of Spain
| 18 = 18. Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria
| 19 = 19. Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria
| 20 = 20. Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine
| 21 = 21. Countess Julia Hauke
| 22 = 22. Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
| 23 = 23. Victoria of the United Kingdom
| 24 = 24. Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies
| 25 = 25. Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria
| 26 = 26. Prince Francis, Count of Trapani
| 27 = 27. Archduchess Maria Isabella of Austria
| 28 = 28. Prince Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans
| 29 = 29. Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
| 30 = 30. Prince Antoine, Duke of Montpensier
| 31 = 31. Infanta Luisa Fernanda of Spain
}}

Notes

1. ^José María Zavala, Dos infantes y un destino (Barcelona: Planez & Janés, 1998), 101.
2. ^Zavala, 102.
3. ^Zavala, 111.
4. ^"Spanish Pretender's Sons", The Times ( 2 October 1950): 3. "General Franco and Don Juan", The Times ( 3 October 1950): 5.
5. ^Zavala, 165.
6. ^Zavala, 171.
7. ^"Prince to Return to Spain Tuesday", The New York Times ( 16 January 1955): 25.
8. ^Quoted in Paul Preston, Juan Carlos: Steering Spain from Dictatorship to Democracy (New York: W.W. Norton, 2004), 101.
9. ^{{cite web | url = http://royalfoibles.com/tag/king-juan-carlos-l-of-spain/ | title = Royal Foibles | accessdate = 2014-06-05}}
10. ^{{cite web | url = https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/juan-carlos-lays-to-rest-a-haunting-spanish-tragedy-1557621.html | title = Juan Carlos lays to rest a haunting Spanish tragedy | accessdate = 2014-06-05}}
11. ^Preston, 102.
12. ^A Royal Mystery at Snopes.com.

Bibliography

Zavala, José M. Dos infantes y un destino. Barcelona: Plaza & Janés, 1998. {{ISBN|84-01-55006-8}}.
"Son Born to Spanish Pretender". The New York Times ( 4 October 1941): 17.
"Funeral of Infante Don Alfonso". The Times ( 2 April 1956): 8.
"Don Juan's Son Is Killed in Spanish Gun Accident". The New York Times ( 30 March 1956): 3.
Mikkelson, Barbara. "A Royal Mystery".

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