Editing Alfonso XII (section)

==Marriages==
On 23 January 1878 at the Basilica of [[Basilica of Nuestra Señora de Atocha|Atocha]] in Madrid, Alfonso married his first cousin, Princess [[Mercedes of Orléans|María de las Mercedes]], but she died, aged only 18, of typhoid fever, their marriage only lasting five months and three days.<ref name="EB1911"/><ref>{{Cite web |title=Alfonso XII {{!}} Real Academia de la Historia |url=https://dbe.rah.es/biografias/6413/alfonso-xii |access-date=2024-07-28 |website=dbe.rah.es}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=02 Nov 1878 - The Death of the Young Queen of Spain. - Trove |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3147553 |access-date=2025-04-12 |publisher=Nla.gov.au}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=MCNBiografias.com |title=María de las Mercedes. Reina de España (1860-1878) » MCNBiografias.com |url=http://www.mcnbiografias.com/app-bio/do/show?key=maria-de-las-mercedes-reina-de-espanna |access-date=2025-04-12 |website=mcnbiografias.com}}</ref>

[[File:FOTOGRAFIA DEL REY ALFONSO XII, LA REINA M. CRISTINA Y LA PRINCESA DE ASTURIAS (1880).jpg|thumb|right|King Alfonso XII and [[Maria Christina of Austria|Queen Maria Christina]] with their daughter [[Mercedes, Princess of Asturias|Mercedes]] in 1880]]
On 29 November 1879 at the Basilica of Atocha in [[Madrid]], Alfonso married his double third cousin, Archduchess [[Maria Christina of Austria]]. During the honeymoon, a pastry cook named Otero fired at the young sovereign and his wife as they were driving in Madrid.<ref name="EB1911"/>

The children of this marriage were:
* [[María de las Mercedes, Princess of Asturias|María de las Mercedes]], Princess of Asturias, (11 September 1880{{snd}}17 October 1904), married on 14 February 1901 to [[Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies]]. She was titular heir to the throne of Spain from the death of her father until the posthumous birth of her brother.
* [[Infanta María Teresa of Spain|María Teresa]], (12 November 1882{{snd}}23 September 1912), married to [[Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria]] on 12 January 1906
* [[Alfonso XIII]] (17 May 1886{{snd}}28 February 1941). Born posthumously. He married [[Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg]]

Alfonso had two sons by [[Elena Sanz|Elena Armanda Nicolasa Sanz y Martínez de Arizala]] (15 December 1849, in [[Castellón de la Plana]] – 24 December 1898, in Paris):
* Alfonso Sanz y Martínez de Arizala (28 January 1880, in Madrid{{snd}}19 March 1970, in Paris), married in 1922 to María de Guadalupe de Limantour y Mariscal
* [[Fernando Sanz y Martínez de Arizala]] (28 February 1881, in Madrid{{snd}}8 January 1925, in [[Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques|Pau]], France), unmarried and without issue