Queen Maria Cristina of Spain
(1817-1878)

Maria Cristina Fernanda, Princess of Naples and Sicily, became the second wife of the childless Ferdinand VII of Spain in 1829. When he died in 1833, she acted as Queen-Regent until their three-year-old daughter, Isabel II, reached her majority.

Queen Maria Cristina died at Le Havre on 22 August 1878.