María de las Mercedes, Princess of Asturias
Princess of Asturias (1880–1904)
María de las Mercedes, Princess of Asturias
María de las Mercedes, Princess of Asturias (María de las Mercedes de Borbón y Habsburgo-Lorena; 11 September 1880 – 17 October 1904) was the eldest child of King Alfonso XII of Spain and his second wife, Maria Christina of Austria. She was Princess of Asturias, the heiress presumptive to the Crown of Spain, for all 24 years of her life. Had her younger sibling, unborn at the death of Alfonso XII, been a daughter, Mercedes would have been Queen of Spain. The sibling proved to be a boy, Alfonso XIII, and upon his birth in 1886, he was King, and Mercedes turned out not to be queen. She resumed the position of heiress presumptive, which she held until her own death (aged 24), and was succeeded in it by her own infant son Alfonso, Alfonso XIII having not yet married and fathered a legitimate child. Mercedes married in Madrid on 14 February 1901, her second cousin, Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, a nephew of the King of the then-defunct Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, who was elevated to...
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