Wedding of Infanta María Cristina of Spain, 1940

The Wedding of Infanta María Cristina of Spain, daughter of King Alfonso XIII of Spain and Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, and Enrique Eugenio Marone Cinzano, Count Marone, the Cinzano owner who had been ennobled the previous month by King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, at the Basilica of San Camillo de Lellis in Rome on this day in 1940, in the midst of the Second World War. The couple had four daughters before his death in 1968, residing in Italy and Switzerland. Infanta María Cristina died in 1996.

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