Page "History of Spain" Paragraph 106

In Spain, the failure of the second bourgeois revolution was followed by a period of uneasy peace for the next decade.

Having borne only a female heir presumptive, it appeared that Ferdinand would be succeeded by his brother, Infante Carlos of Spain.

While Ferdinand aligned with the conservatives, fearing another national insurrection, he did not view the Carlos's reactionary policies as a viable option.

Ferdinand – resisting the wishes of his brother – decreed the Pragmatic Sanction of 1830, enabling his daughter Isabella to become Queen.

Carlos, who made known his intent to resist the sanction, fled to Portugal.