Victoire Eugenie Julie de Battenberg (born the October 24th 1887 and deceased the April 15th 1969) was queen of Spain (1906 - 1931), consort of the king Alphonse XIII.

Victoire Eugenie was born with Balmoral. His/her father, the prince Henri de Battenberg, was the son of the prince Alexandre de Hesse and of his morganatic wife Julie de Hauke. His/her mother, the princess Beatrice of Great Britain, was the girl of the queen queen Victoria and her Prince Consort Albert of Saxony-Cobourg-Gotha (see the article Descendance of Victoria Ire of the United Kingdom). Victoire Eugenie accepted her the first two first names in homage to her two famous godmothers: his/her grandmother the queen queen Victoria and the ex-empress of the French, the widow of Napoleon III, Eugenie de Montijo.

Victoria Eugenie married the king Alphonse XIII of Spain the May 31st 1906 with Madrid, after being herself converted with the Catholicisme and after being titrated |Royal highness (it was only|Highness sérénissime by her birth).

They had seven children:

• Alphonse (1907-1938), Prince of Asturies then “count of Covadonga”
• Jacques Henri (1908-1975), infant of Spain then “duke of Segovia”, “duke of Anjou”, “duke of Madrid” and “duke of Tolède”
• Beatrice (1909-2002), infante of Spain then princess of Civitella Cesi
• Ferdinand (1910-1910), infant of Spain
• Marie Christine (1911-1996), infante of Spain then countess Marone
• Jean (1913-1993), infant of Spain then prince of Asturies, then “count de Barcelone”
• Gonzalve (1914-1934), infant of Spain

After her husband given up the throne the April 14th 1931, it carried the title of courtesy of “duchess of Tolède”, and became starting from the September 29th 1936 (until the February 28th 1941) the “first lady” of the legitimists French and the Spanish carlists. However, after the fall of Spanish monarchy in 1931, it lived separate of her husband. She died with Lausanne.

See too

• Alphonse XIII

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