Isabel II of Spain

One of the most turbulent reigns in the history of Spain is undoubtedly the period of Isabel II of Spain, a queen who from her birth was on the lips of the whole world, in addition to the events that happened to her throughout her reign. In this lesson from a TEACHER we will talk about the curiosities of Isabel II of Spain, some of which were exaggerated by her enemies and others, as we will see, were true as fists.

Index

1. Short biography of Elizabeth II
2. Curiosities of the education of Isabel II
3. Compromised situations that Isabel II lived through
4. Curiosities about his intimate life

Within the lesson on the curiosities of Isabel II of Spain, we must know that she was born on October 10 of 1830 in Madrid and since its birth it was on the lips of a large part of the kingdom, because at first, his birth passed the throne to his uncle, Carlos María Isidro, given that the Salic law existed in Spain.

On the death of Ferdinand VII,

From that moment, the queen's private life was the talk of all Spain, as her parties and her relationships with a large part of the members of the court were notable.

In 1868 the queen had to go into exile since the revolution known as the Gloriosa, ended up proclaiming the First Republic in Spain. From that moment until the day of her death on April 9, 1904 (aged 73), she lived in France, from where she could contemplate the Republic in Spain, the reign of her son Alfonso XII and the beginning of the reign of her grandson Alfonso XIII.

In this other lesson we offer you a summary of the biography of Isabel la Católica.

We know that she was titled or nicknamed as the “Queen Castiza” or “Isabel, the one of the sad destinies”, for all the things that she happened to him during her life.

In the field of her education, from the beginning she was one of the "gossip" that spread the fastest throughout the geography of Spain and throughout Europe, since the young woman she had a hard time reading with ease, as well as writing, being her calligraphy quite coarse, according to the writings of the time.

Similarly, arithmetic was one of her weak points, her inability to perform complex operations beyond adding and subtracting went down in her history. All of this led to the gossip to mention her as a girl with some Mental retardation.

From the beginning of her reign (in her regency), the little queen of Spain had to face a political problem that plunged the country into a deep war between the north of the peninsula and the rest. In the so-called carlist wars, in which the Elizabethan army had to face the army of her uncle, the infant Carlos María Isidro, for control of the throne of Spain.

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Among the curiosities of Elizabeth II of Spain, we have the record that on January 21, 1851, while the queen was going to mass in her carriage, a bull that had escaped she starred in a carriage race through the streets of Madrid, the result was that the animal got tired of chasing the horses and ended up stopping, without causing any altercation more.

Another curiosity occurred on February 2, 1852, shortly after having the Infanta Isabel, the queen was in the Royal Palace, when suddenly, the priest Merino tried to end the life of the queen with a stiletto. She was fortunate that the knife bounced off the embroidery on his suit and on one of the rods of the corset, causing the weapon to only enter his body about 15 millimeters. The priest was then arrested by the halberdiers and after being interrogated he was taken to the Saladero prison, after which he was sentenced to death.

Without a doubt, within the curiosities of Isabel II of Spain, there is one that stands out above all, and that is that the queen was listed as a true nympho She because she is known by many of her lovers throughout her life, both in her reign and outside it, and from different estates.

On some occasions it was even said that orgies were held for the queen, in the Palace, where even the halberdiers participated, an example of this is found in the different cartoons that can be found in Internet.

Undoubtedly, many were carried out by opponents of the regime established in Spain. Although, nevertheless, there is faith in several lovers, such as: Serrano, Arrieta, O'Donnell... it is said that many of her pregnancies were. We have to know that the queen she gave birth 11 times although only 6 survived; Among these children was the future Alfonso XII, of whom they said that he was not the son of her husband.

Finally, to say that the queen's marriage was not far from gossip because Francisco de Asís (Duke of Cádiz) he was homosexualIn such a way that, from the beginning of her marriage, both from within and from outside the court, they found it very difficult for her pregnancies to come from it. A well-known phrase of the queen when knowing that the future husband of her would be this of her with 16 years was “No, with Paquita, no! ”.

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