Don Agustín Fernando Muñoz y Sánchez, 1st Duke of Riánsares, 1st Marquess of San Agustín, 1st Duke de Montmorot, was the second and morganatic husband of Queen Maria Christina, Regent of Spain.
Portrait of Agustín Muñoz, c. 1855–65
The Duke of Riánsares
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Morganatic marriage, sometimes called a left-handed marriage, is a marriage between people of unequal social rank, which in the context of royalty or other inherited title prevents the principal's pos
Agustín Fernando Muñoz y Sánchez, 1st Duke of Riánsares
…y Sánchez (4 May 1808 – 11 September 1873), 1st Duke of Riánsares, 1st Marquess of San Agustín, 1st Duke de Montmorot (in France), was the second and morganatic husband of Queen Maria Christina, Regent of Spain. Muñoz was born at Tarancón in the Province of Cuenca, New Castile. He was the second son of Juan…
Charles Ferdinand, Prince of Capua (top), with his morganatic wife, the Anglo-Irish commoner Penelope Smyth (left), and their daughter, Vittoria (right).
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