When Eulalia married her coursin Antonio shortly after her brother's death he wasn't Duke of Galliera; the title of Duke of Galliera was not a royal title. The Duchess of Galliera, born Mademoiselle Brignole, was a generous woman who lived in her Italian palace. Her only son and heir refused the title because the late Duke of Galliera was not his real father. The Duchess turned to Antoine of Montpensier, Eulalia's aunt and father-in-law, and gave him the title. When he died in 1890 his only son inherited it, and Eulalia became Duchess of Galliera, a title used in many books to refer to her.
On the infanta's trip to America in 1893, in Cuba she decided to wear a dress which, it turned out, wore the exact coloursof the revolutionaries. After meeting the first crowd, she was hastened to change her problematic dress. In Chicago many were disappointed that a Spanish princess should turn out to be blue-eyed and blonde. She went also to New York and Washington DC, where she met the president and his wife, whom she liked very much.
Despite the Infanta's liberal views on politics and ways of life, she deeply loved her sister in law, the regent, and respected her nephew the king, although with not such blindness as her eldest sister Isabel, with whom she always took on a bizarre, tense relationship. Even so, she regretted the latter's death in 1931; she was very close to her mother and her sister Paz, whom she visited often after her separation and "divorce".
Eulalia was VERY close to the last Kaiser and liked the last Tsar and his wife, though she disapproved of their splendour and how they treated the lower classes. Among others, throughout her life she met Leopold II of the Belgians, Carlos and Manuel II of Portugal, Wilhelm II of Germany, Nicholas II of Russia, Ferdinand of Bulgaria, Maria Feodorovna of Russia and Empress Eugenie of France.
