MARIA CRISTINA (1858-1929, née Archduchess of Austria, second wife of Alfonso XII and mother of Alfonso XIII, Queen Regent 1885-1902)

Finely penned Document signed, in Spanish with translation, to the President of Peru, (Remigio Morales Bermúdez, d. 1894, President from 1890), saying she is recalling Don Juan Duran y Cuerbo, her envoy to Peru, and that she is convinced he will have secured the President's approval during his mission, signed also by Carlos O Donnell, 1834-1903, four times Foreign Minister between 1879 and 1897, blind embossed armorial paper seal, 1 side folio and conjugate blank, Madrid, 25th October

The long regency of Queen Cristina, who was by nature a strong Conservative, owed much to her ability to work with Liberals and to encourage consensus politics between the two main parties.

Item Date:  1890

Stock No:  52558      £375

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