Gonzalo, Duke of Aquitaine

Gonzalo, Duke of Aquitaine (5 June 1937 – 27 May 2000) (Gonzalo Víctor Alfonso José Bonifacio Antonio María y Todos los Santos de Borbón y Dampierre, was a grandson of King Alfonso XIII of Spain.

Gonzalo was born in the Clinica Santa Anna in Rome, the younger son of Infante Jaime of Spain and of his first wife, Emmanuelle de Dampierre. He was baptised in the chapel of the hospital where he had been born.

In 1941, after the death of Alfonso XIII, Gonzalo moved with his family to Lausanne, Switzerland. They lived first at the Hotel Royal, before Gonzalo and his older brother Alfonso were sent to the Collège Saint-Jean in Fribourg. On 8 December 1946 Gonzalo received his first communion and was confirmed by Cardinal Pedro Segura y Sáenz, Archbishop of Seville.

In 1953 Gonzalo visited Spain for the first time. The following year General Francisco Franco allowed Gonzalo and Alfonso to continue their education in Spain.

In September 1955 Gonzalo and Alfonso were both injured in an automobile accident near Lausanne, on a return trip from Windsor during which they had driven all day and night.

In December 1959 Gonzalo's engagement to Dorothy Marguerite Fritz of San Francisco, daughter of Nicholas Eugene Fritz, Jr., was announced. A wealthy heiress, she owned the Huntington Hotel. The marriage never took place.

In November 1961 Alfonso and Gonzalo, concerned that their father was wasting away his money, sought an injunction from a French court to compel him to turn over management of his affairs to a court-appointed trustee, being supported in their action by their grandmother, Queen Victoria Eugenie, as well as by other members of the Spanish royal family. In January 1962 the court ruled that although there were insufficient grounds to find Jaime completely incompetent, a trustee was installed to restrain undue extravagance on his part.