Isabel II

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A child of incest and precocious in every respect, Isabel II was crowned queen at the age of 13 and given in marriage at the age of 16 to a cousin that only aroused her contempt and to whom she was obliged by weighty reasons of State. She established bourgeois liberalism and reigned in one of the most difficult periods in nineteenth-century Spain.La apasionante historia de una reina precoz en todo, adorada en la ninez y rechazada a los 38 anos de edad. La reina que dejo atras el absolutismo para implantar el liberalismo buregues en la dificil Espana decimononica.