The Funeral of Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain in the Church of the Sacred Heart in Lausanne on this day in 1969, followed by the burial in the Cemetery Bois-de-Vaux. In 1985, her grandson, King Juan Carlos, had Queen Victoria Eugenie’s remains returned to Spain where they were interred in the Pantheon of the Kings in the Royal Crypt of the Monastery of El Escorial.
Royal attendees included the entire extended Spanish Royal Family, headed by the Count and Countess of Barcelona, King Constantine and Queen Frederica of Greece (second cousin), King Michael, Queen Anne, Queen Mother Helen (first cousin, once removed), and Crown Princess Margareta of Romania, Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta (first cousin, once removed), King Umberto and Queen Marie Jose of Italy, Princess Grace and Prince Albert (godson) of Monaco, the Duke of Kent, and Lord Mountbatten (first cousin).
Since it was a private ceremony and not a state funeral, no reigning sovereign attended the service. The extended Spanish royal family was led by her third son and pretender to the Spanish throne, The Count of Barcelona. Three ruling European royal families were represented: the United Kingdom by The Duke of Kent (representing his first cousin Queen Elizabeth II), Belgium by The Prince of Liège (representing his brother King Baudouin) and Monaco by The Princess of Monaco (representing her husband Prince Rainier III). Also present were the three former kings of Greece, Romania and Italy, as well as: The Count of Paris, The Duke of Braganza, Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia, The Duke of Calabria, The Duke of Galliera, The Duke of Aosta, The Hereditary Duke of Württemberg (representing his father The Duke of Württemberg) and The Archduke of Austria-Este.
• TRH Prince Juan and Princess María de las Mercedes, Count and Countess of Barcelona (son and daughter-in-law)
• TRH Prince Juan Carlos and Princess Sofía of Spain, Prince and Princess of Asturias (grandson and his wife/ Queen VE’s first cousin twice removed)
• HRH Infanta Pilar of Spain and Don Luis Gómez-Acebo y Duque de Estrada, Duke of Badajoz (granddaughter and her husband)
• HRH Infanta Margarita of Spain (granddaughter)
• HRH Infante Jaime of Spain, Duke of Segovia (son)
• Don Alfonso de Borbón y Dampierre, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz (grandson)
• Don Gonzalo de Borbón y Dampierre, Duke of Aquitaine (grandson)
• HRH Infanta Beatriz of Spain and Prince
Alessandro Torlonia di Civitella-Cesi (daughter and son-in-law)
• Countess Sandra Lecquio di Assaba (granddaughter)
• Don Marco Torlonia dei Principi di Civitella-Cesi (grandson)
• Don Marino Torlonia dei Principi di Civitella-Cesi (grandson)
• Donna Olimpia Torlonia dei Principi di Civitella-Cesi and Mr Paul Anik Weiller (granddaughter and her husband)
• HRH Infanta María Cristina of Spain, Countess di Marone (daughter)
• Donna Vittoria Álvarez de Toledo y Gross (granddaughter)
• Donna Maria Theresa de Arana y Montalvo (granddaughter)
• HRH Infanta Alicia of Spain, Dowager Duchess of Calabria (niece-in-law)
• TRH Prince Carlos and Princess Anne of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duke and Duchess of Calabria (great-nephew and his wife)
• HRH Princess Teresa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Marchioness de Laula (great-niece)
• HRH Princess Inès of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Mrs Morales y Aguado (great-niece)
• HRH Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (first cousin twice removed)
• HRH Prince Albert of Belgium, Prince of Liège (thirth cousin once removed)
• HSH Princess Grace of Monaco
• HSH Hereditary Prince Albert of Monaco, Marquess of the Baux (godson)
• HM Queen Frederica of Greece (first cousin twice removed)
• HM King Constantine II of the Hellenes (first cousin twice removed)
• HM Queen Helen of Romania (first cousin once removed)
• TM King Michael and Queen Anne of Romania (first cousin twice removed and his wife)
• HRH Crown Princess Margareta of Romania (first cousin thrice remove)
• TM King Umberto II and Queen Maria-José of Italy
• HRH Prince Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples
• HRH Princess Maria Gabriella of Savoy
• HRH Princess Irene of Savoy-Aosta, Dowager Duchess of Aosta (first cousin once removed)
• HRH Prince Amedeo of Savoy-Aosta, Duke of Aosta (first cousin twice removed)
