There are things in Spain almost no mention. And one of them is the early death of a brother of King Juan Carlos, almost unknown to ordinary people, disappeared 55 years ago while both teenagers then, were playing with a gun apparently discharged. The tragedy marked forever the life of the reigning monarch and his family, and was involved for decades in an aura of mystery and suspicion. What really happened that fateful March 29, 1956? A secret that the king will be his grave.
Juan Carlos was 18, while his brother, "Alfonsito", was 15. The son of Don Juan de Borbón (Count of Barcelona) and Maria de Bourbon, was born in Rome in 1941, and according to historian Juan Balansó, "was a mischievous and awake, simpatiquísimo child, happy life to all who knew him. " It was one of the potential heirs of a dynasty which, until then, had survived the vicissitudes of Spanish history (exile, civil war and dictatorship) and a host of misfortunes family.. It was Saturday in Estoril, the Portuguese town where the Counts of Barcelona and their children lived. Waiting for dinner, the two brothers were alone in the games room of the mansion to make some shots against a white circular bright colors, with a .22 caliber pistol, which had given them.
Suddenly, Alfonsito was shot. The gun was in the hands of his brother Juan Carlos. The single bullet containing entered cleanly through one of the nostrils of Alfonsito. Dona Maria, who was in an adjoining room with several friends heard the shot: "One day I stopped life," he said later. It was destroyed because it was believed responsible have let their children play with the gun, to prevent bored in that rainy afternoon, continue fighting.
Those who ran to meet infants came across a picture of desolation. On the floor lay playroom Alfonsito, whom the father tried to revive him, unsuccessfully. He covered it with a Spanish flag ripped from his neck after forcing Juan Carlos to that, he knelt down and swore it was an accident. The secretariat of the Counts of Barcelona provided the following note: "While the Infante Don Alfonso de Borbon room cleaning a gun with his brother, the gun went off, hitting him in the frontal region, died a few minutes. The accident happened at twenty hours and thirty minutes after returning from the offices of Holy Thursday, where he received Holy Communion. "
The news was silenced by the regime of then Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, who kept the Bourbons away from Spain, and by the Portuguese press, also subject to the dictatorship of General Salazar. The nobles of Spain, monarchists at heart, kept silent about the mystery. It was so hard to recognize the truth, accepting that it had been "an accident" that all toiled to cover the episode as pious as a thick blanket of silence. Count of Barcelona stood alone in Estoril, bewailing his misfortune and not receiving or condolences Franco.
In an age so full of attacks, insults, deceit, defamation and outrages that since the Franco regime exiled the royal family were sent, Juan de Borbon lost a teenage son and never received the condolences of the dictator. Commenting on the tragedy with a monarchist, Franco said without compassion: "People do not like princes unlucky". That was a tragedy in the long list of misfortunes suffered by the Borbon-Battenberg (sons of King Alfonso XIII), launched in 1931 to a sad exile. Dead in childbirth, infantas died very young, unhappy queens, children are part of the "curse" that the Bourbons lived in the twentieth century.
In 1938 , Prince Alfonso, died in a car accident in Miami, four years after that, the same tragedy, death of his younger brother, Gonzalo. Both (children of Alfonso XIII) had hemophilia, a genetic disease. The other brother, the infant Jaime, was deaf since childhood, and his death was apparently due to a fierce fight he had with his alcoholic wife. -Alfonso- her son would die in the ' 80s, beheaded by an electric cable while skiing in the United States. Today is a generally accepted fact that the finger Juan Carlos was on the trigger when the fatal shot was fired, and one of the proponents of this theory was an uncle of Juan Carlos, the infant Jaime: "Several friends have confirmed to me that was my nephew who accidentally killed his brother Alfonso. " NEWS PAGE
FACING THE TRUTH.
Juan Carlos was 18, while his brother, "Alfonsito", was 15. The son of Don Juan de Borbón (Count of Barcelona) and Maria de Bourbon, was born in Rome in 1941, and according to historian Juan Balansó, "was a mischievous and awake, simpatiquísimo child, happy life to all who knew him. " It was one of the potential heirs of a dynasty which, until then, had survived the vicissitudes of Spanish history (exile, civil war and dictatorship) and a host of misfortunes family.. It was Saturday in Estoril, the Portuguese town where the Counts of Barcelona and their children lived. Waiting for dinner, the two brothers were alone in the games room of the mansion to make some shots against a white circular bright colors, with a .22 caliber pistol, which had given them.
Suddenly, Alfonsito was shot. The gun was in the hands of his brother Juan Carlos. The single bullet containing entered cleanly through one of the nostrils of Alfonsito. Dona Maria, who was in an adjoining room with several friends heard the shot: "One day I stopped life," he said later. It was destroyed because it was believed responsible have let their children play with the gun, to prevent bored in that rainy afternoon, continue fighting.
Those who ran to meet infants came across a picture of desolation. On the floor lay playroom Alfonsito, whom the father tried to revive him, unsuccessfully. He covered it with a Spanish flag ripped from his neck after forcing Juan Carlos to that, he knelt down and swore it was an accident. The secretariat of the Counts of Barcelona provided the following note: "While the Infante Don Alfonso de Borbon room cleaning a gun with his brother, the gun went off, hitting him in the frontal region, died a few minutes. The accident happened at twenty hours and thirty minutes after returning from the offices of Holy Thursday, where he received Holy Communion. "
The news was silenced by the regime of then Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, who kept the Bourbons away from Spain, and by the Portuguese press, also subject to the dictatorship of General Salazar. The nobles of Spain, monarchists at heart, kept silent about the mystery. It was so hard to recognize the truth, accepting that it had been "an accident" that all toiled to cover the episode as pious as a thick blanket of silence. Count of Barcelona stood alone in Estoril, bewailing his misfortune and not receiving or condolences Franco.
In an age so full of attacks, insults, deceit, defamation and outrages that since the Franco regime exiled the royal family were sent, Juan de Borbon lost a teenage son and never received the condolences of the dictator. Commenting on the tragedy with a monarchist, Franco said without compassion: "People do not like princes unlucky". That was a tragedy in the long list of misfortunes suffered by the Borbon-Battenberg (sons of King Alfonso XIII), launched in 1931 to a sad exile. Dead in childbirth, infantas died very young, unhappy queens, children are part of the "curse" that the Bourbons lived in the twentieth century.
In 1938 , Prince Alfonso, died in a car accident in Miami, four years after that, the same tragedy, death of his younger brother, Gonzalo. Both (children of Alfonso XIII) had hemophilia, a genetic disease. The other brother, the infant Jaime, was deaf since childhood, and his death was apparently due to a fierce fight he had with his alcoholic wife. -Alfonso- her son would die in the ' 80s, beheaded by an electric cable while skiing in the United States. Today is a generally accepted fact that the finger Juan Carlos was on the trigger when the fatal shot was fired, and one of the proponents of this theory was an uncle of Juan Carlos, the infant Jaime: "Several friends have confirmed to me that was my nephew who accidentally killed his brother Alfonso. " NEWS PAGE
FACING THE TRUTH.
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