María Amparo Muñoz, 1st Countess of Vista Alegre, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Place of Birth: Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
About María Amparo Muñoz, 1st Countess of Vista Alegre
- Doña María Amparo Muñoz y Borbón, 1st Countess of Vista Alegre (17 November 1834 – 19 August 1864) was the daughter of María Christina of the Two Sicilies, queen dowager and regent of Spain, and her morganatic second husband, Agustín Fernando Muñoz (afterwards Duke of Riánsares).
- Her full title was María de los Desamparados Muñoz y de Borbón, condesa de Vista Alegre. Her mother, María Christina, had been the fourth queen consort of Ferdinand VII of Spain, a maternal uncle with whom she had had two daughters; the elder, Infanta María Isabel Luisa, was proclaimed Queen Isabella II of Spain at the age of three upon her father's death on 29 September 1833.
- His widow, María Christina (then regent), married a sergeant from the guard a few months later, on 28 December 1833, and María Amparo was their first child, born in Madrid in 1834.
- In 1840 María Amparo went with her parents into exile in France.
- In 1842 her mother purchased the Château de Malmaison, where María Amparo and her siblings grew up. On 1 March 1855, María Amparo was married at Malmaison to Wladyslaw Czartoryski, a Polish prince living in exile in France.
- They lived at the Hôtel Lambert, the Czartoryski family's base of operations during the Second French Empire.
- She and Prince Wladyslaw had a son, August Franciszek Czartoryski, born on 2 August 1858.
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