Cristina de Borbón | |||||
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Infanta of Spain | |||||
Infanta Cristina at the GAVI Alliance conference in London, 13 June 2011
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Madrid, Spain |
13 June 1965 ||||
Spouse | Iñaki Urdangarín (m. 1997) | ||||
Issue | Juan Urdangarín y de Borbón Pablo Urdangarín y de Borbón Miguel Urdangarín y de Borbón Irene Urdangarín y de Borbón |
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House | Bourbon | ||||
Father | Juan Carlos I of Spain | ||||
Mother | Sophia of Greece and Denmark | ||||
Religion | Roman Catholic | ||||
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Cristina Federica Victoria Antonia de la Santísima Trinidad de Borbón y de Grecia |
Infanta Cristina of Spain (Cristina Federica Victoria Antonia de la Santísima Trinidad de Borbón y de Grecia, born 13 June 1965) is the younger daughter of King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofía of Spain. As of 2015[update] she is sixth in the line of succession to the Spanish throne, after her brother King Felipe VI's children, her sister Elena, and Elena's children.
From 2013 she was under investigation and later tried for fraud relating to accusations of corruption involving a company owned by Cristina and her husband.
Cristina de Borbón was born in Madrid and was baptized into the Church at the Palacio de La Zarzuela by the Archbishop of Madrid. Her godparents were Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz (her first cousin once removed), and Infanta Maria Cristina of Spain (great-aunt).
She received her secondary education at Santa María del Camino School before graduating from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 1989 with a degree in political science. She pursued postgraduate studies at New York University, obtaining an MA in international relations in 1990. In 1991, she gained practical experience working at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris.