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Queen Victoria Eugenia

Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg
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Queen consort of Spain
Tenure 31 May 1906 – 14 April 1931
Born (1887-10-24)24 October 1887
Balmoral Castle, Scotland
Died 15 April 1969(1969-04-15) (aged 81)
Lausanne, Switzerland
Burial 18 April 1969
Catholic Church, Lausanne, Switzerland
25 April 1985
El Escorial
Spouse Alfonso XIII of Spain
(m. 1906–41; his death)
Issue
Full name
Victoria Eugenie Julia Ena
House Battenberg
Father Prince Henry of Battenberg
Mother Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom
Religion Roman Catholicism
prev. Church of England
Full name
Victoria Eugenie Julia Ena

Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg (Victoria Eugenie Julia Ena; 24 October 1887 – 15 April 1969) was Queen of Spain as the wife of King Alfonso XIII.

Victoria Eugenie was born on 24 October 1887 at Balmoral Castle, in Scotland. Her father was Prince Henry of Battenberg, the fourth child and third son of Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine by his morganatic wife Countess Julia Hauke, and her mother was Princess Beatrice, the fifth daughter and youngest child of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.

As Prince Henry was the product of a morganatic marriage, he took his style of Prince of Battenberg from his mother, who had been created Princess of Battenberg in her own right. As such, Henry's children would normally have been born with the style "Serene Highness"; however, Queen Victoria had issued a Royal Warrant on 4 December 1886 granting the higher style of "Highness" to all sons and daughters of Prince Henry and Princess Beatrice, thus she was born Her Highness Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg. She was named for her grandmother Victoria and for her godmother Eugénie de Montijo, the Spanish-born French empress who lived in exile in the United Kingdom. To her family, and the British general public, she was known by the last of her names, as Ena.

Victoria Eugenie grew up in Queen Victoria's household, as the British monarch had reluctantly allowed Beatrice to marry on the condition that she remain her mother's full-time companion and personal secretary. Therefore, she spent her childhood at Windsor Castle, Balmoral, and Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. She was a bridesmaid at the wedding of her cousins, the Duke (later King George V) and Duchess of York on 6 July 1893.


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