Kingdom of Spain

The **Kingdom of Spain** is a country that existed from 1516 to 1998.

## History

In 1902, Alfonso XIII turned 16 and was crowned king of Spain.On a state visit to the Great Britain he stayed in London at Buckingham Palace with King Edward VII.There he met Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, the daughter of Edward's youngest sister Princess Beatrice, and a granddaughter of Queen Victoria.He found her attractive, and she returned his interest. There were obstacles to the marriage. Victoria was a Protestant, and would have to become a Catholic. Victoria's brother Leopold was a hemophiliac, so there was a 50 percent chance that Victoria was a carrier of the trait. Finally, Alfonso's mother Maria Christina wanted him to marry a member of her family, the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, or some other Catholic princess, as she considered the Battenbergs to be non-dynastic.Victoria was willing to change her religion, and her being a hemophilia carrier was only a possibility. Maria Christina was eventually persuaded to drop her opposition. In January 1906 she wrote an official letter to Princess Beatrice proposing the match. Victoria met Maria Christina and Alfonso in Biarritz, France, later that month, and converted to Catholicism in San Sebastián in March.

Alfonso and Victoria were married at the Royal Monastery of San Jerónimo in Madrid on 31 May 1906, with British royalty in attendance, including Victoria's cousins the Prince and Princess of Wales (later King George V and Queen Mary).The wedding was marked by an assassination attempt on Alfonso and Victoria by Catalan anarchist Mateu Morral. As the wedding procession returned to the palace, he threw a bomb from a window which killed 30 bystanders and members of the procession, while 100 others were wounded.On 10 May 1907, the couple's first child, Alfonso, Prince of Asturias, was born. Victoria was in fact a haemophilia carrier, and Alfonso inherited the condition. During World War I, because of his family connections with both sides and the division of popular opinion, Spain remained neutral. The King established an office for assistance to prisoners of war on all sides. This office used the Spanish diplomatic and military network abroad to intercede for thousands of POWs – transmitting and receiving letters for them, and other services. The office was located in the Royal Palace.

Alfonso became gravely ill during the 1918 flu pandemic. Spain was neutral and thus under no wartime censorship restrictions, so his illness and subsequent recovery were reported to the world, while flu outbreaks in the belligerent countries were concealed. This gave the misleading impression that Spain was the most-affected area and led to the pandemic being dubbed "the Spanish Flu." Despite all the troubles, Moroccan lands began to be occupied from the northern part of Western Sahara after France was defeated and weakened in 1919 but the Moroccan War of Independence begins and Morocco becomes a Semi-Independent German Protectorate as a result of the Algeria Treaty signed in 1923.As a result of the Treaty of Algeria, Spain gave Moroccan lands in the north to Kingdom of Morocco.

After this time, Spain began to develop its relations with Weltreich. The Spanish economy, which was constantly hit, did not develop during the 1920s. Spain reached a population of 23 million in the 1930.A General, Miguel Primo de Rivera, was appointed prime minister by the king after a successful coup d'état and for seven years dissolved parliament and ruled through directorates and the aid of the military until 1935.İn his time,the Spanish economy got stronger and factories started to open.After General Rivera's death, Alfonso regained control. In 1936 the Moroccan Crisis started.Moroccans revolted to be fully independent again.Spain took advantage of this and occupied southern Morocco.With the end of the crisis, Morocco was divided between Spain and Weltreich. In 1941, Alfonso XIII died at the age of 57.His first son was died at this time and has no children.As a result, his second son, Infante Jaime, became King Jaime IV at the age of 33.Wilhelm II died in 1941.Jaime IV attended the funeral.One year after Wilhelm III the Weltreich Emperor,withdraws his troops from Morocco and Spain takes control over the entire region.

In the 1945 elections, Francisco Franco wins with over 53% of the vote and becomes Prime Minister.From 1945 to 1947, the Spanish economy suffered a great depression.After the depression, a plan was made to increase the industry.King Jaime IV was assassinated by Moroccan independence when he visited Fes in 1948, but did not die.After plan of industry economy started to increase. Franco won the 1951 election with 44% of the vote.In the 1950s, the tourism industry started to develop and economic growth accelerated as a result of the demands.Spain remained neutral in the second Arab revolt.Franco also won the 1957 and 1962 election with %46 of the vote.Spain remained neutral during the Portuguese colonial wars.Spain started becoming more and more neutral.Franco won 1965 election with %43 of the vote.King Jaime was assassinated again during his visit to Morocco in 1966, but did not die again.Franco won the 1969 election with %48 of the vote.

Realizing that in 1972 it could no longer hold Spain allowed Morocco to become independent,but as a monarchy that it supported but the monarchy was overthrown and a socialist republic was established in 1976.At the same year[1972] Crown Prince Alfonso married granddaughter of Franco.King Jaime IV died in 1975 at the age of 69. Franco also died in the same year and Adolfo Suarez become prime minister. Crown Prince Alfonso was crowned as Alfonso XIV at the age of 39.With the development of the tourism industry, the Spanish economy started to grow very rapidly.Parliament and government gains more power and elections are allowed to gain the confidence of the people and Spain turns into Semi-constitutional Monarchy.Although the Catalan independence protests started in the 80s, they were suppressed before they turned into a revolt.Adolfo Suarez won the 1981 election with %38 of the vote.Alfonso XIV visited the Turkish Federation in 1983.Alfonso XIV died in 1989 at the age of 63.

Crown Prince Alfonso was crowned as Alfonso XV at the age of 15.As the king was inexperienced, the parliament took over the governance. Second Weltkrieg started in 1993.Spain remained neutral but in 1995 Pro-Central coup was happened and Alfonso gives total power to the junta and abdicates the trone at the age of 31.Although Fernando Martinez ruled the country as a dictator for another year, the Socialist Republic of Spain was established as a result of the success of the communist revolts.