Infanta Maria Cristina of Spain
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The Infanta Doña Maria Cristina of Spain (Doña María Cristina Teresa Alejandra María de Guadalupe María de la Concepción Ildefonsa Victoria Eugenia de Borbón y Battenberg) (12 December 1911 - 23 December 1996) was the fourth child of HM Alfonso XIII of Spain and Queen Ena of Spain and paternal aunt of the current King Juan Carlos I.
Infanta Maria Cristina was born at the Palacio Real in Madrid, Spain. The Spanish Royal Family left the country in 1931, in the face of Republican demonstrations, settling in Paris, before moving to Fontainebleau.
By 1933 King Alfonso and his daughters, the Infantas Beatriz and Maria Cristina, had moved to Rome. Their father cautiously warned would-be suitors of the inherent dangers of hemophilia, that had infected two of the king's sons (Alfonso and Gonzalo).
She married Enrico Eugenio Marone-Cinzano (1895-1968), 1st Count of Marone, on September 1, 1940 in Rome. The marriage produced four daughters:
- Victoria Marone-Cinzano, born 5 March 1941.
- Giovanna Marone-Cinzano, born 31 January 1943.
- María Teresa Marone-Cinzano, born 4 January 1945.
- Anna Sandra Marone-Cinzano, born 21 December 1948.
Infanta Maria Cristina returned to Spain and spent period of times there, but never lived there permantly. She died in Madrid on December 23, 1996, and was given a state funeral but was buried in the Marone-Cinzano Pantheon in Italy.
