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Auction: SW1006 - The Collector's Series, including important Chile and Portugal
Lot: 764

ISABEL II OF SPAIN (1830-1904). 1880, January 1st, letter headed by embossed crowned seal, entirely handwritten by Isabel to her niece Margarita and probably originating from Paris during her exile in France, of highly interesting contents referring to her son Alfonso XII, then King of Spain, mentioning the avoided conspiracy against the King and his wife with: "...sigue descubriéndose  el complot que había contra mi queridísimo hijo Alfonso. Yo no ceso de dar las gracias a Dios y a la Virgen por haber salvado tan milagrosamente la vida de Alfonso y Cristina...". Signed "Ysabel".

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