Alfonso, Prince of Asturias (Alfonso Pío Cristino Eduardo Francisco Guillermo Carlos Enrique Eugenio Fernando Antonio Venancio Borbón y Battenberg (Madrid, 10 May 1907 – Miami, Miami-Dade County, Florida, 6 September 1938), was an Infante of Spain and the heir-apparent of the throne of Spain from 1907 to 1931.
Alfonso was the eldest child of the then-reigning king Alfonso XIII of Spain and his wife Victoria Eugenie. He inherited the genetic disorder haemophilia from his maternal line. He was a matrilineal great-grandson of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. He and his youngest brother Gonzalo were kept in specially-tailored jackets to prevent bloody accidents.
He was the 1,120th Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece in Spain in 1907.
His father the King faced increasing political problems that led Spain to become a Republic in 1931 when the monarch was deposed. The family moved into exile.
There had been plans of young Alfonso's deposition from succession, but ultimately he himself renounced his rights to the then-defunct throne to marry a commoner, Edelmira Ignacia Adriana Sampedro-Robato, in Ouchy on 21 June 1933, after which Alfonso took the courtesy title Count of
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