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See also:CHRISTINA [MARIA CHRISTINA HENRIETTA DESIREE FELICITE RENIERE] , for some years See also:queen-See also:regent of See also:Spain (1858– ), widow of See also:Alphonso XII. and See also:mother of Alphonso XIII., was See also:born at See also:Gross Seelowitz, in See also:Austria, on the 21st of See also:July 1858, being the daughter of the See also:archduke See also:Charles See also:Ferdinand and the archduchess See also:Elizabeth of Austria. She was brought up by her mother as a rigid See also:Catholic, and See also:great care was taken with her See also:education. At eighteen she was appointed by the See also:emperor See also:Francis See also:Joseph, See also:abbess of the See also:House of See also:Noble Ladies of See also:Saint See also:Theresa in See also:Prague, where she made herself very popular and distinguished herself by her intellectual parts. It is said that at the See also:court of See also:Vienna the archduchess saw the See also:young See also:prince Alphonso of Spain when he was only a pretender in See also:- EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)
exile, before the restoration of the Bourbons. A few years later, when Alphonso XII. had lost his first wife and See also:cousin, Queen Mercedes, daughter of the duc de See also:Montpensier, his ministers, especially Senor Canovas, urged him to marry again. He told them that if he did so it would only be with the young See also:Austrian archduchess Maria Christina. After some negotiations between the two courts and governments it was agreed that the archduchess Elizabeth and her daughter should meet Alphonso XIL at See also:Arcachon, in the See also:south of See also:France, where a few days' See also:personal acquaintance was sufficient to make both come to a decision. The See also:duke of Bailen went officially to Vienna to get the emperor of Austria's authorization, and on the 14th of See also:November 1879, in the See also:throne-See also:room of the Imperial See also:palace, the archduchess solemnly abdicated all her rights of See also:succession in Austria, in accordance with the See also:law obliging all princesses of the imperial house to do so when they wed a See also:foreign prince. On the 17th of November the archduchess and her mother, with a numerous See also:suite, started for Spain, arriving at the royal See also:castle of El Pardo, near See also:Madrid, on the 24th of November. The See also:wedding took See also:place in the Atocha See also:cathedral, on the 29th of November, in great See also:state, and was followed by splendid festivities. Queen Christina See also:bore her See also:husband two daughters before he died in 1885—Dona Mercedes, born on the 11th of See also:September 188o, and Dona Maria Theresa, born on the 12th of November 1882. During her husband's lifetime the young queen kept studiously apart from politics, so much so that her inexperience caused much anxiety in November 1885, when she was called upon to take the arduous duties of regent. During the See also:long minority of the See also:posthumous son of Alphonso XII., afterwards See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King Alphonso XIIL, the Austrian queen-regent acted in a way that obliged even the adversaries of the throne and the See also:dynasty to respect the mother and the woman. The See also:people of Spain, and the ever-restless See also:civil and military politicians, found that the gloved See also:hand of their constitutional ruler was that of a strong-minded and tenacious regent, who often asserted herself in a way that surprised them much, but always, somehow, enforced obedience and respect. More could not be expected by a foreign ruler from a nation little prone to See also:waste See also:attachment or See also:demonstrative See also:loyalty upon any-See also:body not Castilian born and bred.
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