Alfonso XII

Due to the exile caused by dictators, republics, civil war and bad behavior in Spain’s tumultuous modern history, not a single Spanish monarch has died on home soil since Alfonso XII in 1885.

Spanish King Alfonso XII claimed the jungle as a 19th-century royal preserve.

The brooch was given by Spain's King Alfonso XII to the Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria for their wedding in 1879 and remained with the family until the 1980s.

At rival Christie's in Geneva on Wednesday, a diamond brooch given by Spain's King Alfonso XII to his wife as a wedding gift and ruby ear pendants once owned by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis are among highlights of a sale that could fetch more than $80 million.

The Maria Christina Royal Devant-de-Corsage brooch was presented as a wedding gift in November 1879 from King Alfonso XII of Spain to his wife, the Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria, soon to be Queen Consort and then Queen Regent of Spain.