# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alfonso-xii-of-spain
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:59:44.169Z

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name: "Alfonso XII of Spain"
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description: "A Spanish king who reclaimed his mother's throne at seventeen, ruled for a decade, and died at twenty-seven — leaving a kingdom to a son not yet born."
tagline: "King of Spain from 1874 to 1885"
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birthDate: "1857-11-28"
deathDate: "1885-11-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Alfonso XII was born in 1857, son of Isabella II, who was driven from the throne by the Glorious Revolution of 1868. He spent his youth studying in Austria and France while Spain convulsed. His mother abdicated in his favour in 1870, but he didn't return until December 1874, when a military coup toppled the First Spanish Republic and restored the Bourbon line. He ruled as El Pacificador — the Peacemaker — for just over a decade. In November 1885, three days before his twenty-eighth birthday, he died, leaving his widow Maria Christina of Austria pregnant. Their son Alfonso XIII was born king in 1886; Maria Christina held the regency until the boy came of age in 1902.