.. continued to like Spain and supported claims of her brother Don Juan to the Spanish throne.  The family reunited in 1963 in Athens at the wedding of her nephew and King Don Juan Carlos with Princess Sophie of Greece – combining yet more royals from different countries. Her parents …

.. back through royal lines of Spain, England, France, Italy, Luxembourg, and other countries. (Photo: Don Marco Alfonso Torlonia 6th Prince Civitella son of Beatriz and Alessandro; cousin of King Juan Carlos, and Uncle of the Princess of Luxembourg)  

.. and therefore back through Ena, Beatrice, Victoria, and on back to Henry V of royal English blood. Her connection is a cousin, Sibilla Weiller of Luxembourg. (Photo: Brooke Shields)

… in the winter of 1935.  She had a coronet of orange blossoms, long considered a symbol of virtue and fertility, which held her veil in place.  Her father Alfonso came together for the occasion, and the King and Queen of Italy with 52 princes of blood royal in attendance. …

… in 1934 when Beatriz was driving a car in Austria on vacation with her brother Gonzalo as a passenger.  She swerved to avoid a bicyclist, and everything seemed fine, except the next day, her brother died.  He had the genetic hemophilia disease and was bleeding internally. (Photos: featured: the …

… because Alfonso XIII was the king at a time when the monarchy was very unpopular.  The 2nd Spanish Republic was declared, throwing the family out of the country, although he did not abdicate the thrown in hopes he would be back. Beatriz, her mother Victoria Eugenie (“Ena”) and her …

… Victoria of England became the wife of Alessandro Torlonia, 5th Prince di Civitella-Cesi.  She was the paternal aunt of King Juan Carlos. Infanta Beatriz spoke English, French, and Spanish.  The children spoke English with their Mother (who was English), and Spanish with their father (who was Spanish. Beatriz and …

While Ena and her daughter developed the Red Cross of Spain in the early 1900’s, it was Florence Nightengale who introduced the concept of “medical tourism”; meaning traveling to remote situations to care for a given situation. Florence, born and raised in Italy, took part in the Crimean War of …

… of the Red Cross of Spain.  She entered service alongside her mother, Victoria Eugenie Queen of Spain, and her older sister, Beatriz. (photo:  Infanta Maria Cristina (same status as an English Princess)

Thanks to the queen’s efforts, the first Spanish Red Cross hospital was opened in 1918 in Madrid. Both of Victoria Eugenie’s daughters, Beatriz and Maria Cristina, would receive their nursing training there nearly a decade later. Victoria Eugenie received many awards for this. Some of these awards included the Silver …