page_title: Jaime, Duke of Madrid
section_title: Early adult years
hierarchical_section_title: Jaime, Duke of Madrid / Childhood and youth / Early adult years
caption_attribution_description: English: jaime 1890
context_page_description: Jaime de Borbón y de Borbón-Parma, known as Duke of Madrid and as Jacques de Bourbon, Duke of Anjou in France, was the Carlist claimant to the throne of Spain under the name Jaime III and the Legitimist claimant to the throne of France as Jacques I.
context_section_description: It is not clear whether Carlos VII has discussed with the British his alleged vision of Don Jaime pursuing a military career in England. Eventually in 1890 Don Jaime indeed commenced military education, though not in Sandhurst but in Theresianische Militärakademie in Wiener Neustadt. Still considered childish by his mother, he was accompanied by a family trustee, Miguel Ortigosa. Almost no details on Don Jaime's military education are available and it is not known whether and if yes what army branch he opted for. According to his later opponents in the academy Don Jaime became loose on his Catholic practices and got somewhat derailed from Traditionalist track. He graduated in 1893, but mounting political differences between Carlos VII and the kaiser produced a disaster: Don Jaime was neither promoted to officer rank nor admitted to the imperial army. The years of 1894–1895 were dedicated mostly to travelling, be it distant voyages like the tour to India, Siam, Indoniesia and the Philippines, or shorter trips, e.g. to the Spanish Morocco. It was in 1894 that for the first time since the early childhood days he visited Spain; officially incognito and accompanied by a Vasco-Navarrese Carlist leader Tirso de Olazábal, during his 37-day tour Don Jaime was many times identified. He gave rise to a number of rather friendly anecdotes, while his journey was widely discussed in the press. Most likely in the mid-1890s Don Carlos explored perspectives of his son commencing a military career in one of major European armies. Don Jaime's service in the imperial Austrian army was out of the question; it is not clear whether the British or the German army was at any point considered an option. Eventually Don Carlos renewed his 1877 relations with the St. Petersburg court and some time late 1895 it was agreed that Don Jaime would join the Russian army.
caption: Don Jaime, probably early or mid-1890s
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