Editing Isabella II (section)

== Life after ousting ==
Following the crossing of the [[French–Spanish border]] by train on 30 September, the Queen and King spent 5 weeks in the [[Château de Pau]] organising their Parisian future. They went to the French capital and arrived on 8 November, settling in the [[Rue de Rivoli]] 172.{{Sfn|Reyero|2020|pp=209–210}} Isabella was forced to renounce to her dynastic rights in Paris in favour of her son [[Alfonso XII of Spain|Alfonso]] on 25 June 1870, officially "freely and spontaneously".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cadenaser.com/programa/2018/06/25/la_ventana/1529939758_396463.html|title=a crucial decisión de Isabel II|date=25 June 2018|first=Nieves|last=Congostrina}}</ref> Involving an economic settling, the formal separation between Isabella and Francisco had pended on the passing of the former queen's dynastic rights to her son.{{Sfn|Reyero|2020|p=220}}
[[Image:Isabella II of Spain in exile.jpg|thumb|right|The former queen in Paris]]
Following the election to the Spanish throne of [[Amadeo I of Spain|Amadeo of Savoy]] (second son of [[Victor Emmanuel II of Italy]]) in November 1870, Isabella reconciled in 1871 with her brother-in-law, the Duke of Montpensier, who assumed the political management of the family.{{Sfn|Sánchez Núñez|2014|p=220}}

The [[First Spanish Republic]] that followed Amadeo's short reign was overthrown by a military coup started in [[Sagunto]] by General [[Arsenio Martínez Campos]] on 29 December 1874 that proclaimed the restoration of the monarchy and the [[Bourbon dynasty]] in the person of Isabella's son Alfonso XII,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://clio.rediris.es/fichas/restaur01.htm|website=Clío|title=El sistema político de la Restauración|first=César|last=Layana}}</ref> who landed in Barcelona on 9 January 1875.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.elperiodico.com/es/barcelona/20180225/visitas-de-los-borbones-a-barcelona-barceloneando-6648899|website=[[El Periódico de Catalunya|El Periódico]]|title=Otras visitas de los Borbones a Barcelona|first=Toni|last=Sust|date=25 February 2018}}</ref>

After 1875 she lived in a relationship with [[Marqués de Alta Villa|Ramiro de la Puente y González Nandín]], her secretary and chief of staff.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gwdnm2EETO4C&pg=PA275|page=275|title=Sevilla y la monarquía: las visitas reales en el siglo XIX|first=María del Carmen|last=Fernández Albéndiz|publisher=[[Universidad de Sevilla]]|year=2007|location=Seville|isbn=978-84-472-0911-8}}</ref>

Cánovas del Castillo, the dominant figure of the new regime, became convinced that the figure of Isabella had become an issue for the Crown and wrote her a letter bluntly stating "Your Majesty is not a person, it is a reign, it is a historical time, and what the country needs is another reign, a different time", hellbent on avoiding the former queen stepping onto the Spanish capital before the proclamation of the [[Spanish Constitution of 1876|new constitution in June 1876]].<ref name=elmundo>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.elmundo.es/loc/casa-real/2020/06/20/5eec7fc921efa090268b45b6.html|journal=[[El Mundo (Spain)|El Mundo]]|title=Isabel II de España: cuando abdicar supuso tener prohibido pisar el país|date=20 June 2020|first=Eduardo|last=Álvarez}}</ref>

She returned to Spain in July 1876, stayed in [[Santander, Spain|Santander]] and [[El Escorial]] and was only allowed to visit Madrid for barely hours on 13 October.<ref name=elmundo /> She moved to [[Seville]], where she remained for a longer time and left for France in 1877.<ref name=elmundo /> Isabella's son would marry [[Mercedes of Orléans]] (first cousin of Alfonso and daughter of the Dukes of Montpensier) in 1878, only for the latter to die five months after the wedding.{{Sfn|Sánchez Núñez|2014|p=220}}

Isabella mostly lived in Paris for the rest of her life, based at the [[Palacio Castilla]]. She paid some visits to Seville.<ref name=elmundo /><!--no sources During her later life, she grew closer to her husband, with whom she maintained an ambiguous friendship until his death in 1902.{{cn|date=August 2020}} Her last days were marked by the marital problems of her youngest daughter, Eulalia.{{cn|date=August 2020}}-->

She wrote her [[Will and testament|testament]] in Paris in June 1901, making her will to be entombed in [[El Escorial]].{{Sfn|Cambronero|1908|pp=332–333}} Less than a month after passing through a cold categorised as "flu" by the physicians, she died on 9 April 1904, at 8:45 AM.{{Sfn|Cambronero|1908|pp=328–329}} Her corpse was moved from the Palacio Castilla to the [[Gare d'Orsay]],{{Sfn|Cambronero|1908|pp=329}} and arrived to El Escorial on 15 April.{{Sfn|Cambronero|1908|p=330}} The funeral took place on the next day at [[Basilica of San Francisco el Grande, Madrid|San Francisco el Grande]].{{Sfn|Cambronero|1908|p=334}}