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 THE ROYAL FAMILY

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It. Infanta Maria-dc-la-Paz^ born June 23, 18C2 ; married, April 3, 1883, to i'rinee LuiUvig, eldest son of the late Trince Adalbert of Bavaria. III. Infanta Eulalia, born February 12, 186-1 ; married to Prineo Antoine, son of Frinec Antoine d'Orleans, Due de Montpensier, Mareh 6, 1886. (All sisters of the late King.)

Parents of the late jfiTiwgf.— Queen Isabel, born Oetober 10, 1830 ; the eldest daughter of King Fernando VII.; ascended the throne at the death of her father, September 29, 1833 ; assumed the government on Ijeing declared of age, November 8, 1843 ; exiled September 30, 1868 ; abdicated in favour of her son, June 25, 1870. Married, October 10, 1846, to her cousin Infante Francisco, born May 13, 1822.

C0US171 of the late King.

Infante Don Carlos Maria-de-los-Dolores, born March 30, 1848, son of Prince Juan, and grandson of the Infante Don Carlos, nephew of King Fer- nando VII. Married (1) February 4, 1867, to Princess Marguerite of Bourbon, daughter of Duke Carlos III. of Parma ; (2) April 28, 1894, to ^larie Berthe, Princess de Rohan. Offspring of the hrst union are four daughters and a son. Prince Jaime, born June 27, 1870.

The King, Alfonso XIII., has a civil list, fixed by the Cortes, 1886, of 7,000,000 pesetas, or 280,000Z., exclusive of allowances to members of the royal family ; the Queen Regent having the administration and usufruct of the said sum until the King becomes of age. The annual grant to the Queen, as mother to the King, was fixed by the Cortes, in 1886, at 250,000 pesetas. The immediate successor was assigned 500,000 pesetas, and 250,000 to the second sister, they having been Princesses of Asturias. The parents of the late King, ex-Queen Isabel and her husband, have an allowance of 1,050,000 pesetas, or 42,000Z. ; and the four Infantas, his sisters, of 800,000 pesetas, or 32,000^. The total amount of the civil list and allowances to the relatives of the late King was fixed by the Cortes in 1876 at 10,000,000 pesetas, or 400,000Z. ; now it is 9,500,000 pesetas, or 380,000Z.

The following is a list of the sovereigns and sovereign rulers of Spain, with dates of their accession, since the foundation of the Spanish Monarchy by the union of the crowns of Aragon and Castile : —

House of Aragon. Fernando V., ' The Catholic ' 1512

House of Habshurg.

Carlos 1 1516

Felipe II 1556

Felipe III 1598

Felipe IV 1621

Carlos II 1665

House of Bourbon.

Felipe V 1700

Fernando VI. . . . 1746

Carlos III 1759

Carlos IV 1788

Fernando VII. . . . 1808

House of Bonaparte. Joseph Bonaparte. . . 1808 '

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House of Bourbon.

Fernando VII., restored

1814

Isabel II

1833

Provisional Government

1868

Marshal Serrano, Regent

1869

Hous^of Savoy.

Amadeo ....

1870

Republic.

Executive of the Cortes.

1873

Estanislao Figueras

1873

Pi y Margall, June 8

1873

Nicolas Salmcron, July 18

1873

Emilio Castelar, September 9.

1873

Marshal Serrano, January 4. .

1874

House of Bourbon.

Alfonso XII. .

1875

^Maria {pro tern.)

1886

Alfonso XIII.

1886