Infanta Maria Cristina of Spain

Maria Cristina of Spain
Countess of Marone
Spouse	Enrico Eugenio Marone-Cinzano
Full name
Spanish: Doña María Cristina Teresa Alejandra María de Guadalupe María de la Concepción Ildefonsa Victoria Eugenia de Borbón y Battenberg
House	House of Bourbon
Father	Alfonso XIII of Spain
Mother	Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg
Burial	Marone-Cinzano Pantheon, Turin, Italy
Religion	Roman Catholicism

Arms of Infanta Maria Cristina of Spain.

Infanta Maria Cristina of Spain, Countess of Marone (Doña María Cristina Teresa Alejandra María de Guadalupe María de la Concepción Ildefonsa Victoria Eugenia de Borbón y Battenberg) (12 December 1911 – 23 December 1996) was the fourth child of Alfonso XIII of Spain and Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg and paternal aunt of the current King Juan Carlos I.

Biography

Early life

Infanta Maria Cristina was born at the Palacio Real in Madrid, Spain. The Spanish Royal Family left the country in 1931, in the face of Republican demonstrations, settling in Paris, before moving to Fontainebleau.

By 1933 King Alfonso and his daughters, the Infantas Beatriz and Maria Cristina, had moved to Rome. Their father cautiously warned would-be suitors of the inherent dangers of hemophilia, that had infected two of the king's sons (Alfonso and Gonzalo).

Marriage and issue

She married Enrico Eugenio Marone-Cinzano (Turin, 15 March 1895 – Geneva, 23 October 1968), 1st Count Marone, son of Alberto Marone and wife Paola Cinzano and a widow of Noémia Alcorta y García-Mansilla, by whom he had issue, on 10 June or 1 September 1940 in Rome. The marriage produced four daughters:

• Doña Vittoria Eugenia Alfonsa Alberta del Pilar Enrica Paola Marone-Cinzano (b. Turin, 5 March 1941), married in Geneva on 12 January 1961 José Carlos Alvarez de Toledo y Gross (Málaga, 7 November 1929 – Madrid, 19 March 2000), ?th Marquess of Casa Loring, 8th Count of Villapaterna, and had issue:
  • Vittoria Eugenia Alvarez de Toledo y Marone-Cinzano (b. Málaga, 8 October 1961), ?th Marchioness of Casa Loring, married in Madrid on 29 September 1982 Alfonso Codorníu y Aguilar (b. Madrid, 24 April 1954), and had issue:
    • Jaime Codorníu y Alvarez de Toledo (b. Madrid, 16 February 1985)
    • Ana Codorníu y Alvarez de Toledo (b. Madrid, 24 January 1987)
    • Carla Codorníu y Alvarez de Toledo (b. Madrid, 5 July 1990)
  • Francisco de Borja Alvarez de Toledo y Marone-Cinzano (b. Málaga, 25 March 1964), 9th Count of Villapaterna, married in Waltham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 25 July 1993 Jill Schlanger (b. Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, 30 April 1957), and had issue:
    • Daniel Alvarez de Toledo y Schlanger (b. Madrid, 1 June 1995)
    • Jacobo Alvarez de Toledo y Schlanger (b. Madrid, 20 March 1997)
  • Marco Alfonso Alvarez de Toledo y Marone-Cinzano (b. Málaga, 23 January 1965), a Priest
  • Gonzalo Alvarez de Toledo y Marone-Cinzano (b. Madrid, 1 October 1973), unmarried and without issue
• Giovanna Paola Gabriella Marone-Cinzano (b. 31 January 1943), married firstly in San Martino di Zoagli-Rapallo on 24 July 1967 and divorced in 1980 Jaime Galobart y Satrustequi (b. Barcelona, 4 February 1935), and had issue, and married secondly in Lisbon on 4 August 1989 Luis Ángel Sánchez-Merlo y Ruíz (b. Valladolid, 10 October 1947), without issue:
  • Alfonso Alberto Galobart y Marone-Cinzano (b. Madrid, 12 April 1969), married in Madrid on 26 June 1998 Alejandra Kindelán y Oteyza (b. Caracas, 12 September 1971), and had issue:
    • Andrea Galobart y Kindelán (b. 6 December 1999)
    • Alfonso Galobart y Kindelán (b. 15 February 2002)
• María Theresa Beatrice Marone-Cinzano (b. Lausanne, 4 January 1945), married in Geneva on 22 April 1967 and divorced in 1989 José María Ruíz de Arana y Montalvo (Madrid, 27 April 1933 – Madrid, 30 April 2004), 17th Duke of Baena, 17th Duke of Sanlúcar la Mayor, 15th Marquess of Villamanrique, 13th Marquess of Castromonte, 5th Marquess of Brenes, 11th Count of Sevilla la Nueva and 5th Viscount of Mamblas, and had issue:
  • María Cristina del Carmen Margarita Ruíz de Arana y Marone-Cinzano (b. Madrid, 25 March 1968), 18th Duchesse of Baena, 18th Duchess of Sanlúcar la Mayor, 14th Marchioness of Castromonte, 12th Countess of Sevilla la Nueva and 6th Viscountess of Mamblas, unmarried and without issue
  • Isabel Alfonsa Ruíz de Arana y Marone-Cinzano (b. Madrid, 17 May 1970), 16th Marchioness of Villamanrique, married to Ignacio Izuzquiza y Fernández (b. Madrid, 6 May 1970), and had issue:
    • Cristina Izuzquiza y Ruíz de Arana (b. 30 August 2002)
  • Inés Ruíz de Arana y Marone-Cinzano (b. Madrid, 27 December 1973), 6th Marchioness of Brenes, unmarried and without issue
• Anna Alessandra (Anna Sandra) Marone-Cinzano (b. Turin, 21 December 1948), married firstly in Turin on 7 December 1968 and divorced in 1975 Gian Carlo Stavro di Santarosa (b. Fribourg, 25 May 1944), and had issue, and married secondly in London on 24 July 1986 Fernando Schwartz y Girón (b. Geneva, 16 November 1937), without issue:
  • Astrid Christina Antonia Stavro di Santarosa (b. Trieste, 24 April 1972)
  • Yara Paola Stavro di Santarosa (b. Trieste, 29 June 1974)

Death

Infanta Maria Cristina returned to Spain and spent periods of time there, but never lived there permanently. She died in Madrid of a heart attack on 23 December 1996 during a Christmas reunion of the royal family at the Villa Giralda, the residence of her sister in law Princess Maria Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Countess of Barcelona. She was given a state funeral but was buried in the Marone-Cinzano Pantheon in Turin, Italy.

References

• El Pais, La Familia Real asiste al entierro de la infanta María Cristina en Turín, 27 December 1996
• El Pais; Funeral en la capilla del Palacio Real por la infanta María Cristina, 26 December 1996
• El Pais, Muere a los 85 años en Madrid la infanta María Cristina de Borbón,La tía del Rey sufrió un infarto en Casa de la condesa de Barcelona, 24 December 1996

External links

• Royal House of Spain