| Show A strange story pound the neck of tho the holy virgin of alm adena the patron saint of madrid tor for whom a fine new church is ia being built close to the royal palace a very beautiful diamond ring hangs on a thin gold chain the ring belonged to the late king icing alphonso XII and a strange history is connected with it which may well appeal to the minds of the superstitious ious spaniards spaniard 4 on the day any of his wedding to mercedes the daughter of of the dulce duke of montpensier the king icing gave the ring to his bis bride who wore it till her early death after the funeral the ddn king I 1 gave the ring to his grandmother queen hr istine who died soon after infanta maria del pilar the sister of the king then became its possessor she had worn it only a few days when she died then the ring became the property of the king icing ones once more a and n a he g gave ave it to the sister of his late consort princess christina tho the youngest daughter of the duke of mont pension pen sier three months later the young girl was vas dead the king had bad now b become aware of the unfortunate coincidences and instead of giving it away again he be himself wore the ring until he ha also went to his early grave |
