Elizabeth II and her marriage to a homosexual Bourbon: "What am I going to tell you about a man who wore more lace than I did in his nightgown?"

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This Sunday, October 10,

that was a total folly

have been fulfilled

: the wedding of

who was nicknamed

with her first cousin,

it was an open secret. Totally opposites, they say that the only hobby they shared was

This is demonstrated by the anecdote that circulated when the imposing General O'Donnell, before leaving for the war in Morocco, went to say goodbye to the monarchs. "General, if I were a man, I would go with you," Elizabeth II told him. Her husband, Francisco de Asís, added: "I tell you the same, O'Donnell."

Born in 1830,

after three marriages without issue, which prompted him to enact the Pragmatic Sanction that allowed women to reign in the absence of a man. This would unleash the Carlist wars, among the supporters of Carlos María Isidro, the king's brother and until then heir, who was supported by the absolutists, and the liberals related to Isabel II.

Fernando VII died when his daughter was 3 years old,

which led to the regency of her mother,

more concerned with enjoying a young sergeant of the royal guard than with her dynastic duties. This is why his daughter, when she came to the throne

according to the Count of Romanones, she read badly, her spelling was terrible and her arithmetic was limited to simple sums. This made her

by partisan interests and royal cliques, hindering her role as constitutional queen. However, he supplemented his ignorance with a

and, above all, his unbridled sensuality.

At the age of 16, the decision was made to

but there was a huge stumbling block: the chosen one could not break the system of alliances that cemented the balance of European powers. A thorny issue that was dealt with in an international conference between powers, where France and England gave up presenting candidates to their hand, finally opting for a low-profile character:

Duke of Cádiz and

Upon learning of her appointment, Isabel II cried out in horror:

He had to swallow the toad, although on the eve of the marriage he warned: "I have yielded as queen, but not as woman", preparing the ground for his future love debauchery.

The wedding took place

in the throne room of the royal palace and was a double ceremony, since

the Infanta Luisa Fernanda, also married the Duke of Montpensier, son of the French monarch. Queen María Cristina had to pinch her eldest daughter several times to say "yes, I do" and

according to what Isabel II revealed to the diplomat León y Castillo. "What am I going to tell you about

The marriage was not consummated that night or surely later, unleashing continuous slander about the consort, who also

that made it difficult for him to urinate standing up. "A big problem is in the Courts to find out if the consort when he goes to the toilet he pees standing up or he pees sitting", related a couplet.

Of the

that the queen had,

but it is difficult to prove if any

belonged to

her husband, although Francisco de Asís

for the paripe of presenting them at Court as his children.

queen's

was

"the pretty general," as the sovereign nicknamed him, who also shared a bed with

His long list also includes the

and

José María Arana, the

or the

, alleged father of King Alfonso XII.

"My son, the only Bourbon blood that runs through your veins is mine," they say the queen revealed to her son.

The consort, less active in bed, had a certain

In addition to its sexual antagonism, the

so much so that the queen had an enemy in her husband, a

for all her acts.

Such was her anger that the husband ended up settling in the Segovian palace of Riofrío while the sovereign remained in the royal palace.

The 1868 revolution La Gloriosa, led by her former lover, General Serrano and other distinguished military men such as Prim and Topete, led Isabel II and Francisco de Asís

and led to the definitive separation of the marriage: the consort settled down in Épinay-sur-Seine, where he died in 1902, and Isabel in Paris, under the

In 1870 he abdicated in his son, Alfonso XII, who would restore the Bourbon monarchy, but he

dying in 1904 at his residence in the Palace of Castile. Nicknamed "the queen of sad destinies" she was more remembered for her love curriculum than for her controversial reign, although some historian would justify it later. "I was not a nympho, just

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