Alfonso was the eldest son of Prince Francisco de Asis de Borbón-Dos Sicilias and Queen Isabel II, whose reign was marked by a constant political crisis which had several causes.

The Prince of Asturias, Alfonso, is the person chosen to develop the new roadmap proposed by Canovas, which led to the June 1870 abdication of Queen Isabel II in favour of her son Prince Alfonso.

The 29 December 1874, military coup of Gen. Martinez Campos, in Sagunto ended the failed republic and meant the rise of the young Prince Alfonso.

* Infante Alfonso Pio Cristino Eduardo Francisco Guillermo Carlos Enrique Fernando Antonio Venancio of Spain, Prince of Asturias ( 1907 – 1938 ), a hemophiliac, he renounced his rights to the throne in 1933 to marry a commoner, Edelmira Ignacia Adriana Sampedro-Robato, and became Count of Covadonga.

* Order of the Chrysanthemum, 1930: Emperor Showa's second brother, Prince Takamatsu, traveled to Madrid to confer the Great Collar of the Chrysanthemum on King Alfonso.

* Alfonso of Castile, Prince of Asturias, figurehead of rebelling magnates against his brother King Henry IV of Castile.

* Alfonso of Hauteville, Prince of Capua.

* Alfonso of Spain, Prince of Asturias, heir-apparent of the throne of Spain 1907-31.

* 2003 – Prince Alfonso of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Spanish businessman ( b. 1924 )

* Reconquista: King Ferdinand III of Castile recaptures the city of Seville from the Moors and Prince Alfonso X of Castile the city of Alicante.

* Isabella of Savoy ( 1591 – 1626 ), married Alfonso III d ' Este, Hereditary Prince of Modena

Robert was expelled from Capua and Roger installed his third son, Alfonso of Hauteville as Prince of Capua.

* Alfonso ( b. 1120 / 1121 – d. 10 October 1144 ), Prince of Capua ( from 1135 ) and Duke of Naples ;

* Alfonso ( 1359 – 1362 ), Crown Prince of Castile and León ( Tordesillas, 1359 19 October 1362 ).

However, Alfonso, a very sickly child, died at the age of three, months from his recognition as Crown Prince.

* Alfonso, Prince of Asturias ( 1453 – 1468 )

58, 000 Russian troops in two army corps under Prince Michael Gorchakov fought against 28, 000 French and Sardinian troops under French General Aimable Pélissier and Sardinian General Alfonso La Marmora.

Owing to the renunciations of his brothers Alfonso of Spain, Prince of Asturias, and Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia, Infante Juan was thus next in line to the defunct Spanish throne.

At the death of Alfonso Carlos in 1936 most Carlists supported Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma whom Alfonso Carlos had named as regent of the Carlist Communion.

Fürstenberg's first husband, whom she married at Venice, Italy, on 17 September 1955, was Prince Alfonso of Hohenlohe-Langenburg ( 1924 – 2003 ), who founded the Marbella Club, the Spanish resort.

Everybody knew that King Alfonso was looking for a suitable bride and one of the strongest candidates was Princess Patricia of Connaught, daughter of King Edward's brother, the Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn.

The story then moves to the scene of the tournament, which is presided over by Prince John, King Richard's younger brother.

The official national ceremonies are held at the National War Memorial in Ottawa, presided over by the Governor General of Canada, any members of the Royal Family ( such as Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, in 2009 ),

Kitchener presided over the Rawalpindi Parade 1905 to honour the Prince and Princess of Wales ' visit to India.

As Secretary of State for Wales from 1968 to 1970 he presided over the investiture of the Prince of Wales at Caernarfon Castle in 1969.

Amongst numerous other official and ceremonial duties, the Governor General presided over celebrations to mark the 125th anniversary of Confederation, and welcomed to Rideau Hall the Prince and Princess of Wales, along with a host of foreign dignitaries such as President of Russia Boris Yeltsin and King Hussein and Queen Noor of Jordan.

The ceremony was presided by José Neto, Cardinal of Lisbon, then exiled in Seville, who had baptized D. Manuel when he was the Prince Royal ; D. Manuel was also assisted by the Prince of Wales ( Edward VIII ) and King Afonso XIII of Spain, as well as representatives of the Royal Houses of Europe ( including Spain, Germany, Italy, France and Romania, in addition to the principalities and German kingdoms ).

Bruton presided over the first official visit by a member of the British Royal Family since 1912, the Prince of Wales.

The most important secular and ecclesiastical lords participated in the council of the " Grand Court ", which was presided over by the Prince.

The new bridge was eventually opened on 26 May 1906, five years behind schedule, in a ceremony presided over by the Prince of Wales and Evan Spicer, Chairman of the LCC.

Yuri II (), also known as George II of Vladimir or Georgy II Vsevolodovich ( 11894 March 1238 ), was the fourth Grand Prince of Vladimir ( 1212 – 1216, 1218 – 1238 ) who presided over Vladimir-Suzdal at the time of the Mongol invasion of Russia.

Probably the most skillful of Ivan's generals was Prince Alexander Borisovich Gorbaty-Shuysky, who advised the Tsar on military reform in the 1550s and presided over the Russian army during the siege and capture of Kazan in 1552.

Patriarch Abune Paulos presided over the funerals of Emperor Haile Selassie in 2000 ( even in the face of government hostility to this event ), Crown Prince Asfaw Wossen in 1997, and Princess Tenagnework in 2004.

On 1 July 1930, Prince Albert, Duke of York laid the foundation stone, in a ceremony presided over by mayor Hector Young.

His monument to Edward Jenner, the discoverer of vaccination was set up in the south-west corner of Trafalgar Square in 1858 and inaugurated at a ceremony presided over by Prince Albert.

In June 2011, Prince Khalid presided at the opening of the Rabigh's expansion of its desalination plant.

It is named in honour of Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, who presided over the opening.

At the order of the Dowager Electress, the Hanoverian agents, supported by the Whig leaders, demanded that a writ of summons be issued which would call the Duke to England to sit in Parliament, thus further insuring the Succession by establishing a Hanoverian Prince in England before the Queen's death.

By springtime, he was supported by a rich merchant syndicate under the patronage of Henry, Prince of Wales.

The Prince visited the hospital of Operation Brotherhood, supported by the Junior Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines, and fed rice to two pet elephants he kept at his residence at Pak Song.

Afonso, born in 1109, took the title of Prince after taking the throne of his mother, supported by the generality of the Portuguese nobility who disliked the alliance between Galicia and Portugal Countess Theresa had come to, marrying a second time the most powerful Galician count.

He supported Prince Adonijah over Prince Solomon, and was deposed by him and exiled in Anathoth.

One, Prince Tamura, was a grandson of Emperor Bidatsu and was supported by the main line of Sogas, including Soga no Emishi.

Wilhelm II initially supported the Nazi Party, and his four sons of the exiled German royal family, including Prince Eitel Friedrich and Prince Oskar, became members of the Nazi Party, in hopes that in exchange for their support, the Nazis would permit the restoration of the monarchy.

The British Ministry of Defence and Clarence House made a joint announcement on 22 February 2007 that Prince Harry would be deployed with his regiment to the front line in Iraq, to serve as part of the 1st Mechanised Brigade of the 3rd Mechanised Divisiona move supported by Harry, who had stated that he would leave the army if he was told to remain in safety while his regiment went to war ; he said: " There's no way I'm going to put myself through Sandhurst and then sit on my arse back home while my boys are out fighting for their country.

In 1910 Prince Heinrich had learnt to fly and supported the cause of naval aviation.

While Prince Louis II's sympathies were strongly pro-French, he tried to keep Monaco neutral during World War II but supported the Vichy French government of his old army colleague, Marshall Philippe Pétain.

The Soga family eventually prevailed and supported Empress Suiko and Prince Shotoku, who helped impress Buddhist faith into Japan.

Two political parties emerged: the Union for National Progress ( UPRONA ), a multi-ethnic party led by Tutsi Prince Louis Rwagasore and the Christian Democratic Party ( PDC ) supported by Belgium.

Fox's supporters, however, certainly saw themselves as legitimate heirs of the Whig tradition, and they strongly opposed Pitt in his early years in office, notably during the regency crisis revolving around the King's temporary insanity in 1788 – 1789, when Fox and his allies supported full powers for their ally, the Prince of Wales, as regent.

Kujō Michiie and the court nobility supported Prince Tadanari ( 忠成王 ), a son of Retired Emperor Juntoku, but the shikken Hōjō Yasutoki was opposed to the sons of Juntoku because of his involvement in the Jōkyū War.

Michiie instead supported Tsuchimikado's son Prince Kunihito as a neutral figure for Emperor.

Under John's rule the barons had supported an invasion by Prince Louis because they disliked the way that John had ruled the country.

The powerful King Louis XIV of France supported François Louis, Prince of Conti ( 1664 – 1709 ).

Though supported only by the towns and a few of the younger barons, he triumphed by superior generalship at the Battle of Lewes on 14 May 1264, where the king, Prince Edward, and Richard of Cornwall fell into his hands.

Initially, he supported the marriage of Mary I of England and Prince Philip of Spain by recognizing Henry VIII's creation of the kingdom of Ireland and the couple's claim to France in his bull " Ilius ".

John was left isolated ( even the Black Prince supported the need for reform ) and the Commons refused to grant money for the war unless most of the great officers of state were dismissed, and the King's mistress Alice Perrers, another focus of popular resentment, was barred from any further association with him.

First supported by the Soga clan, Buddhism rose over the objections of the pro-Shinto Mononobe and Buddhism entrenched itself in Japan with the conversion of Prince Shotoku Taishi.

It had emerged victorious from the English Civil War ; supported and supplied Cromwell's army in the wars in Scotland and Ireland ; blockaded the royalist fleet of Prince Rupert in Lisbon ; and organised a system of convoys to protect the commerce of the Commonwealth against the swarms of privateers set upon it from every European port.

In 1926, Dr Mark C Lidwell of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital of Sydney, supported by physicist Edgar H Booth of the University of Sydney, devised a portable apparatus which " plugged into a lighting point " and in which " One pole was applied to a skin pad soaked in strong salt solution " while the other pole " consisted of a needle insulated except at its point, and was plunged into the appropriate cardiac chamber ".