Juan Carlos I Siblings: All About Infante Alfonso and Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz
Juan Carlos I, born Juan Carlos Alfonso Víctor María de Borbón y Borbón-Dos Sicilias on 5 January 1938 in Rome, Italy, is the former King of Spain who reigned from 22 November 1975 until his abdication on 18 June 2014. He is the son of Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona, and Princess María de las [...] The post Juan Carlos I Siblings: All About Infante Alfonso and Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz…
Juan Carlos I, the former King of Spain, had two siblings: Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz, and Infante Alfonso, both of whom renounced their succession rights after marrying. Infanta Pilar, born in Cannes, France, in 1936, was known for her philanthropic work and was married to Luis Gómez-Acebo with whom she had five children.
Her younger sister, Infanta Margarita, Duchess of Soria and Hernani, was born in Rome in 1939 and was blind from birth. She married Carlos Zurita and they had two children. Infante Alfonso, born in 1941, tragically died in a shooting accident at the family home in Estoril, Portugal, at the age of fourteen.
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