BOURBON PRETENDER
ACCIDENTAL DEATH DON ALFONSO CARLOS LONDON, Sept. 30 The Bourbon pretender to the Spanish Throne and head of that house, Don Alfonso Carlos, aged 87, was knocked down by a military motor-car as he stepped off a pavement in Vienna. He died in hospital 12 hours later.
Don Alfonso Carlos, who was born in London, was a first cousin of Don Carlos, Princo of Bourbon, who as Don Carlos VII. made a bold attempt to seize the Spanish throne in 1870. At his death, in exile in 1909, Don Carlos became head of the Carlist faction and a rival to the former King Alfonso for tho crown. Carlists and legitimists appear in the present rebellion to have temporarily sunk their differences.
The first Carlist claimant was the second son of King Charles IV., born in 1788.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22538, 1 October 1936, Page 11
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