2. INTRODUCTION
We´re going to study her biography and some
interesting factors about how was her life
during the exile.
Also we´re going to talk a little about the House
of Bourbon.
3. BIOGRAPHY
María Cristina de Borbon-Dos Sicilias, the future
Isabel II was the daughter of King Ferdinand VII
and his fourth wife.
She was born in 1830 in the Royal Palace of
Madrid, were she was baptized.
After that, and according to the Pragmatic
Sanction of 1830, Isabel II ascended the throne of
Spain in 1833, without having yet reached three
years of age.
Her mother was Regent of the kingdom for that
reason.
4.
5. THE EXILE
The Queen of the sad destinations, as she was also called,
had to face the Revolution of 1868 (La Gloriosa), which
forced her to leave Spain by train from San Sebastián,
where she was vacationing.
Isabel II went into exile in France, where she received the
protection of Napoleon III and Eugenia de Montijo, and
established her residence in the Palace of Castile.
Isabel II lived the rest of her life in France and from there
she witnessed the First Republic, the reign and death of her
son Alfonso XII in 1885.
Isabel II died in the Palace of Castile of Paris in 1904 and
was buried in the Monastery of El Escorial in front of the
remains of her husband.
6. THE EXILE II
We also know that in 1870 he abdicated in
Paris in favour of his son, Alfonso XII.
Meanwhile, thanks to the support of several
groups in the government, Prince Amadeo de
Savoy, a member of the Italian Royal Family,
was elected to replace her on the throne,
Amadeo was the son of Victor Manuel II, King
of Italy and belonging to the House from
Savoy.
7.
8. THE BOURBON HOUSE
The Bourbon-Anjou branch, comes from Felipe of France, Duke of
Anjou, proclaimed king of Spain in 1700.
This proclamation gave rise to the War of Succession against the
suitor of the House of Austria.
The existence of the same lineage governing in France and Spain did
not prevent countries from having autonomous policies, although it
would facilitate political and military alliances between French and
Spanish kings, such as the entry in Spain of the Hundred Thousand
Children of San Luis.
It is currently represented by Carlos Javier de Borbón-Parma.
