Infanta Pilar of Spain Celebrates 80th Birthday
Infanta Pilar of Spain, Duchess of Badajoz, commends her 80th birthday on July 30th.The senior sister of previous King Juan Carlos was conceived in Cannes, France amid the outcast of the Spanish Royal Family and is the senior girl of Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona and Princess María de las Mercedes de Borbón. Her youth was spent in Cannes, Rome and later at Estoril in Portugal. Spanish Royal Family assembled in the Palma de Mallorca for commend the Infanta's 80th birthday at her mid year habitation at Calvià. Upbeat Birthday Ma'am!
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It was informative to learn that Infanta Pilar needed to renounce her rights of succession to the Spanish throne to marry a commoner as stipulated by the Pragmatic Sanction of Charles III.