Notes and References
Notes and References 1 Years of Exile and Uncertainty 1. It is said to have been Jose Marfa Oriol who decided that he be called Juan Carlos once he arrived in Spain, so as to differentiate him from his own father and ingratiate him with the Carlists (see note 6) Perez Mateos, Juan Carlos. La infancia desconocida de un Rey, p. 35. His father, however, has attributed the decision to Franco himself. Sainz Rodriguez, Un reinado en la sombra, p. 276. 2. Some of the king's supporters would later claim that the absence of a suitable heir undermined his ability to defend the monarchy and stand up to his opponents in 1931. If this was the case, it remains unclear why Alfonso XIII did not attempt to make Don Juan his heir in the late 1920s. 3. Don Alfonso divorced his first wife in 1937, and later married another Cuban, whom he also divorced. He died without issue in 1938 in Miami, Florida, as a result of the injuries incurred in an automobile accident. In 1934 Alfonso XIII's fourth son, Don Gonzalo, died in Austria in similar circumstances. 4. In 1935 Don Jaime married the Italian aristocrat Emmanuela Dampierre, with whom he had two sons: Alfonso, born in 1936, and Gonzalo, born in 1941. 5. Borb6n, Mi vida marinera, p. 11. 6. Carlism, which first emerged in the 1820s as the extreme clerical party, took its name from Don Carlos, brother of King Ferdinand VII, who in 1833 refused to recognise his niece Isabel II as queen. In claiming the right to succeed his brother, Don Carlos denied the validity of Charles Ill's prag matic sanction (1776), and appealed instead to the Salic Law introduced into Spain by Philip V (1713).
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