Queen Victoria Eugenia of Spain
| Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg | |||||
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| Queen consort of Spain | |||||
| Tenure | 31 May 1906 – 14 April 1931 | ||||
| Born |
24 October 1887 Balmoral Castle, Scotland |
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| Died | 15 April 1969 (aged 81) Lausanne, Switzerland |
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| Burial | 18 April 1969 Catholic Church, Lausanne, Switzerland 25 April 1985 El Escorial |
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| Spouse |
Alfonso XIII of Spain (m. 1906–41; his death) |
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| House | Battenberg | ||||
| Father | Prince Henry of Battenberg | ||||
| Mother | Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom | ||||
| Religion |
Roman Catholicism prev. Church of England |
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| 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.
She was baptised in the Drawing Room at Balmoral. Her godparents were Empress Eugénie (represented by Princess Frederica of Hanover), Empress Frederick (represented by the Duchess of Roxburghe, the Princess of Battenberg (represented by the Marchioness of Ely), Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (represented by the Countess of Erroll), Prince Louis of Battenberg (represented by the Earl of Hopetoun) and the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (represented by Sir Henry Ponsonby).
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