Infanta María del Pilar of Spain, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Place of Birth: Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
About Infanta María del Pilar of Spain
- Infanta María del Pilar of Spain (Spanish: María del Pilar Berenguela Isabel Francisca de Asís Cristina Sebastiana Gabriela Francisca Caracciolo Saturnina de Borbón y Borbón; 4 June 1861–5 August 1879), daughter of Queen Isabella II of Spain and sister of King Alfonso XII, was an Infanta of Spain. At the age of seven, she accompanied her mother into exile in Paris, where she was educated at the College of the Sacred Heart.
- After the fall of Napoleon III, the royal family settled in Geneva.
- In 1875, with the restoration of the monarchy to her brother King Alfonso XII, she returned to Spain.
- Upon her mother's return to France, Pilar moved with her younger sisters Paz and Eulalia to the Royal Palace of Madrid.
- She completed her education under the supervision of her eldest sister Isabella, Princess of Asturias. There was a project to marry Infanta Pilar to the son of Napoleon III, Napoléon, Prince Imperial.
- The Empress of France, Eugenie, and Queen Isabella II were in favor of this union, but the young Prince Napoleon was killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.
- Two months later Pilar, age eighteen, died suddenly in Eskoriatza.
- Empress Eugenie took a wreath from her son's grave and sent it to Pilar's gravesite in El Escorial.
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