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Alfonso XIII, in a hunt in Doñana /
Alfonso XIII began as a regenerationist, but the tsar’s abdication in 1917 made him embrace the cause of conservative nationalism
Alfonso XIII is the king of both faces. Until the Great War he wanted to be the regenerationist monarch, the head of state who was going to bring Spain out of its prostration after the humiliation of the losses of the colonies. But something happened that made him tremble: the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II in 1917 shocked him so much that he sided with the f
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