Antonio de Orleans and Eulalia de Borbón, Infantes of Spain

[Eric_Lowe]

I am only referring to her book "The thread of life" which is less of a bio and more of what she thought and believe...

Also I think she did not see eye to eye with her "beloved" nephew, after the treatment Ali and Bee got from him and her published books...Maria Cristina thought of Eulalia as "trouble"...

[isabel]

It´s a pleasure to read you again cimbrio, really ....i am impressed about your future book, please inform us about it, i am sure that you are going to do a good work.

I am agree with Eric, i don´t think she was in very good terms with Alfonso, who fovoriced her husband in such a difficults moments of ther marriage, who was not very loyal with Ali and Bee and was horrified (as the rest of the family) about her book.

[Eric_Lowe]

Indeed...although there were times Alfonso wanted to patch up with his Aunt Eulalia. The relationship was anything short of stormy. 

[Luke]

You guys are gonna love this article on Eulalia.....gawd she must have been something:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,721751-5,00.html

[Eric_Lowe]

Very interesting...She is anything but boring...Very opinated and dramatic. A true daughter of Isabella II ! 

[isabel]

Thak you very much Luke, i have enjoy reading.

She was revolted about the rules she had to follow as royal, but deep down in her´s heart i think she was proud to belong to them. She was a noncoformist.

[cimbrio]

I venture to think it'd be for the King of Portugal Carlos I and his son, Prince Luis Filipe, who were shot by a republican on February 1st. Eulalia was a very old, close friend of Don Carlos and her sister-in-law (and cousin) Isabel was Don Carlos' mother-in-law (he was married to Maria Amelia of Orleans). Of course I don't know for certain who she's mourning for but I thin k it's more than plausible. As far as I know they were her closest relatives that died in 1908.

[MarieCharlotte]

How was Eulalia's relationship was to her elder sister Maria de la Paz (1862-1946)? Are there any pictures showing Paz and Eulalia together?

[cimbrio]

Out of Isabel II's surviving daughters (Isabel, Paz and Eulalia), the two latter were closer, due to their age, upbringing and marital status, since Isabel was a young widow when Paz and Eulalia were still very young. Though Eulalia lived at the Spanish court for many years even after her marriage, she visited her sister Paz in Nymphenburg on a yearly basis; Eulalia took every chance she could to go to Berlin to visit her old friend, Kaiser Wilhelm, whom she met at QV's Jubilee in 1887. According to her Memoires, in the Potsdam palace there are several rooms nicknamed "the infanta Eulalia's rooms".

Infanta Isabel was brought up in a strict, conservative court in Madrid. She was nineteen when her mother was overthrown, while Eulalia was just four and hardly remembered Spain when she came back in 1876 with her mother and sisters (Pilar died unexpectedly in 1879). Paz was always on good terms with both her sisters, but there was constant friction between Isabel and Eulalia due to their different education and moral standards. Even so, when Isabel died in France in 1931, Eulalia was at her deathbed... Paz died in 1946 and Eulalia in 1958.

[cimbrio]

Does anyone know anything about Antoine d'Orléans' lovers? I know he had one (I don't have her name in front) whom Alfonso XIII gave a noble title and caused some friction and rather sour letters from Eulalia to her nephew.

I know Eulalia was the lover of Count Jametel, first husband of Princess Marie of Mecklenburg (they divorced in 1908. That same year he killed his brother-in-law Borwin in a duel). I understand Jametel and Marie had children. When did Eulalia's affaire with jametel start? How did they meet? Was he ever received at court?

[grandduchessella]

Gong back to the old discussion about Eulalia and the World's Fair, I came across this, a mystery novel with Eulalia as a central figure:

INFANTA EULALIA'S JEWELS.
Infanta Eulalia's Jewels; or Old Cap. Collier Among the Crooks at the World's Fair. By the Author of "Old Cap. Collier Homeward Bound," Etc., Etc. New York: Munro's Publishing House; 24 & 26 Vandewater Street, July 8, 1893. 32p. (Old Cap. Collier Library, No. 498)

"The World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 attracts millions of people, both famous and infamous, to Chicago. Among the former are Princess Eulalia and Prince Antonio of Spain. When Eulalia's jewels disappear from her hotel suite shortly after her arrival in Chicago, Old Cap. Collier, famous veteran detective who is also visiting the fair, is asked to investigate. Using the utmost discretion, he determines the identities of the thieves, recovers the jewels, and sets the villians to flight since the princess wishes not to press charges. "

[Janet_W.]

Grandduchessella, what a great example to demonstrate that today's media hasn't invented the instant fiction/nonfiction followup! I'm aware that a number of books were written about the Romanovs during the time between the abdication and their execution, but still I'm surprised that a mystery novel featuring the Infanta at the fair was published during the very year of the fair. 

Almost 10 years ago a recently published novel featured a plotline involving a "typical American guy" (if there IS such a person) dating Princess Diana after her divorce from Prince Charles and included their eventual marriage. The book was displayed in our library's used bookstore window for weeks and weeks without takers. So during the final days of August--and as I walked by the display case for the umpteenth time--it occurred to me that "Well okay, the book's undoubtedly silly, but it's also embarrassing to see it there week after week; perhaps it would make an amusing addition, years from now, to my Diana-ana collection." Just a few days later the world heard that Diana had been injured in an automobile accident and, hours after that, that she had died. It wasn't until the following week that I remembered the display, but by then the "I Married Diana Book" already had been picked up by someone else. 

[cimbrio]

Eulalia's stay in the US and Cuba was an interesting one... people in Chicago were disappointed with her. They expected an exotic dark Spanish princess...what they got was a refined, blonde, blue-eyed princess!

[cimbrio]

She probably would XD After all, she was so often politically incorrect  Here's a couple of pages (in Spanish and English) about Eulalia's trip to the new world:
La visita de una infanta a la capital cubana:
http://www.cult.cu/global/loader.php?cat=actualidad&cont=showitem.php&id=3212&tabla=entrevista&titulo=ESTAMPAS%20DE%20CUBA&autor=569&tabla=entrevista&seccion=Letra%20con%20filo

Bertha Palmer:
http://www.neleth.com/gloria/Chapter_Four.htm

Chicago 1893:
http://www.lib.umd.edu/ARCH/honr219f/1893chic.html

[grandduchessella]

This was in Time magazine Jan. 5, 1931

Died. Prince Antoine Louis Phillipe Marie ("Naughty Boy")of Bourbon-Orléans, 64, Infante of Spain, Duke of Galliera, uncle of King Alfonso XIII of Spain, husband of the Infanta Eulalia of Spain, grandson of King Louis Philippe of France (last Bourbon to reign). Funloving, extravagant, he was once incarcerated by King Alfonso for giving 1,000-franc notes as tips. He once got out of prison by feigning insanity.

Love the nickname the American press assigned him.