Infanta Maria Cristina of Spain

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Infanta Maria Cristina of Spain, Countess of Marone (Doña María Cristina Teresa Alejandra María de Guadalupe María de la Concepción Ildefonsa Victoria Eugenia de Borbón y Battenberg) (12 December 1911 – 23 December 1996) was the fourth child of Alfonso XIII of Spain and Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg and paternal aunt of the current King Juan Carlos I.

Infanta Maria Cristina was born at the Palacio Real in Madrid, Spain. The Spanish Royal Family left the country in 1931, in the face of Republican demonstrations, settling in Paris, before moving to Fontainebleau.

By 1933 King Alfonso and his daughters, the Infantas Beatriz and Maria Cristina, had moved to Rome. Their father cautiously warned would-be suitors of the inherent dangers of hemophilia, that had infected two of the king's sons (Alfonso and Gonzalo).

She married Enrico Eugenio Marone-Cinzano (Turin, 15 March 1895 – Geneva, 23 October 1968), 1st Count Marone, son of Alberto Marone and wife Paola Cinzano and a widow of Noémia Alcorta y García-Mansilla, by whom he had issue, on 10 June or 1 September 1940 in Rome. The marriage produced four daughters:

Donna Vittoria Eugenia Alfonsa Alberta del Pilar Enrica Paola Marone-Cinzano (b. Turin, 5 March 1941), married in Geneva on 12 January 1961 José Carlos Alvarez de Toledo y Gross (Málaga, 7 November 1929 – Madrid, 19 March 2000), ?th Marquess of Casa Loring, 8th Count of Villapaterna, and had issue:
- Vittoria Eugenia Alvarez de Toledo y Marone-Cinzano (b. Málaga, 8 October 1961), ?th Marchioness of Casa Loring, married in Madrid on 29 September 1982 Alfonso Codorniú y Aguilar (b. Madrid, 24 April 1954), and had issue:
  - Jaime Codorniú y Alvarez de Toledo (b. Madrid, 15 February 1985)
  - Ana Codorniú y Alvarez de Toledo (b. Madrid, 24 January 1987)
- Carla Codorniú y Alvarez de Toledo (b. Madrid, 5 July 1990)
- Francisco de Borja Alvarez de Toledo y Marone-Cinzano (b. Málaga, 25 March 1964), 9th Count of Villapaterna, married in Waltham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 25 July 1993 Jill Schlanger (b. Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, 30 April 1957), and had issue:
  - Daniel Alvarez de Toledo y Schlanger (b. Madrid, 1 June 1995)
  - Jacobo Alvarez de Toledo y Schlanger (b. Madrid, 20 March 1997)
- Marco Alfonso Alvarez de Toledo y Marone-Cinzano (b. Málaga, 23 January 1965), a Priest
- Gonzalo Alvarez de Toledo y Marone-Cinzano (b. Madrid, 1 October 1973), unmarried and without issue
Giovanna Paola Gabriella Marone-Cinzano (b. 31 January 1943), married firstly in San Martino di Zoagli-Rapallo on 24 July 1967 and divorced in 1980 Jaime Galobart y Satrustequi (b. Barcelona, 4 February 1935), and had issue, and married secondly in Lisbon on 4 August 1989 Luis Ángel Sánchez-Merlo y Ruíz (b. Valladolid, 10 October 1947), without issue:
- Alfonso Alberto Galobart y Marone-Cinzano (b. Madrid, 12 April 1969), married in Madrid on 26 June 1998 Alejandra Kindelán y Oteyza (b. Caracas, 12 September 1971), and had issue:
  - Andrea Galobart y Kindelán (b. 6 December 1999)
  - Alfonso Galobart y Kindelán (b. 15 February 2002)
María Theresa Beatrice Marone-Cinzano (b. Lausanne, 4 January 1945), married in Geneva on 22 April 1967 and divorced in 1989 José María Ruíz de Arana y Montalvo (Madrid, 27 April 1933 – Madrid, 30 April 2004), 17th Duke of Baena, 17th Duke of Sanlúcar la Mayor, 15th Marquess of Villamanrique, 13th Marquess of Castromonte, 5th Marquess of Brenes, 11th Count of Sevilla la Nueva and 5th Viscount of Mamblas, and had issue:
- María Cristina del Carmen Margarita Ruíz de Arana y Marone-Cinzano (b. Madrid, 25 March 1968), 18th Duchess of Sanlúcar la Mayor, unmarried and without issue
- Isabel Alfonsa Ruíz de Arana y Marone-Cinzano (b. Madrid, 17 May 1970), 16th Marchioness of Villamanrique, married to Ignacio Izuzquiza y Fernández (b. Madrid, 6 May 1970), and had issue:
  - Cristina Izuzquiza y Ruíz de Arana (b. 30 August 2002)
- Inés Ruíz de Arana y Marone-Cinzano (b. Madrid, 27 December 1973), 6th Marchioness of Brenes, unmarried and without issue
Anna Alessandra (Anna Sandra) Marone-Cinzano (b. Turin, 21 December 1948), married firstly in Turin on 7 December 1968 and divorced in 1975 Gian Carlo Stavro di Santarosa (b. Fribourg, 25 May 1944), and had issue, and married secondly in London on 24 July 1986 Fernando Schwartz y Girón (b. Geneva, 16 November 1937), without issue:
- Astrid Christina Antonia Stavro di Santarosa (b. Trieste, 24 April 1972)
- Yara Paola Stavro di Santarosa (b. Trieste, 29 June 1974)

Infanta Maria Cristina returned to Spain and spent period of times there, but never lived there permantly. She died in Madrid on 23 December 1996, and was given a state funeral but was buried in the Marone-Cinzano Pantheon in Turin, Italy.