Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies

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Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies
Portrait by Vicente López y Portaña, 1830
Queen consort of Spain
Tenure	11 December 1829 – 29 September 1833
Queen regent of Spain
Regency	29 September 1833 - 12 October 1840
Successor	Baldomero Espartero
Monarch	Isabella II
Born	27 April 1806 Palermo, Kingdom of Sicily
Died	22 August 1878(1878-08-22) (aged 72) Le Havre, French Third Republic
Burial	El Escorial
Spouses	Ferdinand VII of Spain ​ ​ (m. 1829; died 1833)​ Agustín Fernando Muñoz, 1st Duke of Riánsares ​ ​ (m. 1833; died 1873)​
Issue among others...	Isabella II of Spain Infanta Luisa Fernanda, Duchess of Montpensier María Amparo Muñoz, 1st Countess of Vista Alegre Agustín Muñoz, 1st Duke of Tarancón Fernando Muñoz, 2nd Duke of Tarancón Maria Cristina, Marchioness of La Isabella
Names Maria Cristina Ferdinanda di Borbone
House	Bourbon-Two Sicilies
Father	Francis I of the Two Sicilies
Mother	María Isabella of Spain

Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies (Italian: Maria Cristina Ferdinanda di Borbone, Principessa delle Due Sicilie, Spanish: María Cristina de Borbón, Princesa de las Dos Sicilias; 27 April 1806 – 22 August 1878) was the Queen of Spain from 1829 to 1833 and Queen regent of the kingdom from 1833, when her daughter became queen at age two, to 1840. By virtue of her short marriage to King Ferdinand VII of Spain, she became a central character in Spanish history for nearly 50 years, thanks to introducing a bicameral model of government based on the Bourbon Restoration in France: the Spanish Royal Statute of 1834.