Isabel II

Queen at three years old, declared of age at thirteen, married against her will at sixteen, separated at seventeen and dethroned at thirty-eight, Elizabeth II has been one of the most biographed characters in Spain. This surprising book recovers unknown facets or aspects of the queen hardly seen before, in an attempt to reconstruct the human and historical personality of an extraordinarily complex woman: from the alleged ugliness of the queen and the lack of virility of her husband to the clique of palace, including Saint Anthony Mary Claret and Sister Sponsorship, and going through Isabel's supposed anti-liberalism. The reign of Elizabeth II, which occupies almost the central third of the 19th century (1833-1868), clearly defines a troubled time.