Death of ex-Queen Isabella II of Spain
After spending almost half her life in exile, the former Queen of Spain died on 9th April, 1904.
![Queen Isabella II of Spain, 1861. Queen Isabella II of Spain, 1861.](/sites/default/files/2021-04/Photo_of_Queen_Isabel_II_of_Spain.jpg)
Queen of Spain from the age of three, Isabella II abdicated after thirty-six years of more or less ceaseless turmoil, and spent almost half her life in exile in France, though she characteristically never learned to speak French properly. Her accession as a baby in 1833 in succession to her father, the autocratic Ferdinand VII, precipitated seven years of civil war with the Carlists – the staunchly Catholic, traditionalist supporters of her uncle, Don Carlos.