Wedding of Alfonso XIII and Princess Victoria Eugenie

Wedding of Alfonso XIII and Princess Victoria Eugenie
Date31 May 1906 (1906-05-31)
VenueChurch of Saint Jerome the Royal
LocationMadrid, Spain
Participants

The wedding of Alfonso XIII, King of Spain, and Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg took place on Thursday, 31 May 1906, at the Church of Saint Jerome the Royal in Madrid, Spain.

The groom was the reigning king of Spain since his birth and the bride was a princess from a cadet branch of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt and a granddaughter of Queen Victoria.

Celebrations of the wedding were overshadowed by an anarchist bomb attack during the procession back to the palace.


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