Maria de las Mercedes of Bourbon-Sicily ¹

   Another name for Maria was Princess Doña Maria de las Mercedes Cristina Januaria Isabel Luisa Carolina Victoria de Borbón y Orleans Countess of Barcelona.

  Noted events in her life were:

• She was employed. Princess

Maria married Juan of Spain de Bourbon, son of Alfonso XIII of Spain de Bourbon and Victoria Eugenie "Ena" von Battenburg, on 12 Oct 1935 in Santa Maria degli Angeli, Rome, Italy. (Juan of Spain de Bourbon was born on 20 Jun 1913 in La Granja, San Ildefonso, Segovia, died on 1 Apr 1993 in Pamplona, Spain and was buried in Royal Crypt, Monastery of San Lorenzo del Escorial, Madrid, Spain.)

  Marriage Notes:

They had four children:
- HRH Infanta Doña Maria del Pilar Alfonsa Juana Victoria Luisa Ignacia de Todos los Santos of Spain, Duchess of Badajoz (born 1936);
- HM Juan Carlos, King of Spain (born 1938);
- HRH Infanta Doña Margarita Maria de la Victoria Esperanza Jacoba Felicidad Perpetua de Todos Los Santos of Spain, Duchess of Soria, 2nd Duchess of Hernani (born 1939);
- HRH Infante Don Alfonso of Spain (1941 - 1956). ³