Posted by Joaquin
on 31/10/2009, 14:04:52, in reply to "Re: More tombs"
Two histories of love and death. 
The tomb of king Ferdinand VI of Spain, the other spanish monarch who lies faraway the Escorial, king Ferdinand lies with his wife queen Barbara of Braganza, both where deeply in love, but never had children together and she couldn´t lie at the royal crypt of the Escorial, king Ferdinand decided to lie next to his true love instead of lying with all his predecesors. 
The tomb of Philiph V of Spain and his second wife queen Elizabeth of Farnesio, prior his death king Philiph decided to be burried at his beloved palace of La Granja, instead of the Escorial, because he wanted to lie next to his second wife, queen Elizabeth, instead of his first wife, queen Louisa Gabriela of Savoy, this queen was burried at the royal crypt of the Escorial because at the moment of her die she mother of the prince Luois of Asturias, (Louis I of Spain) and the infant Ferdinand (later Ferdinand VI), when Philiph V died his heir was Ferdinand, son of his first wife, and then the queen widow Elizabeth, wasn´t mother of king or future king, but the death without children of her stepson made her son Charles, until then king of Naples, king Charles III of Spain, at the end she was mother of king, but her husband was burried at La Granja, and she decided to lie with him far from the rest of spanish monarchs. 
More from the Escorial, from "artehistoria"
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