Isabella II.: accepted as future Queen, 120; plot to seize, 143-5, 147; proclaimed Queen at thirteen years, 149; forced to sign a decree, 154; authorizes her mother’s marriage to Muñoz, 157; popularity, 157-8; marriage proposals, 161, 164; marriage, 166; attempt on life of, 167-9; separation, 174-7; goes to Aranjuez, 174; returns, 177; reconciled to her husband, 178; attempted assassination of, 181-2; popularity wanes, 183; mutiny against, 184; insurrection against, 194; coldness towards her sister, 198; at San Sebastian, 207; dethroned, 216; character, 216-221; intrigues against, 208; in Paris, 221, 231; present at the wedding of Alfonso XII., 264 Isabella (Infanta), 180; marriage proposals, 207, 223, 329, 331, 339 Isabella of Braganza, second wife of Ferdinand VII., 83, 86; death, 91 Izquierdo, 39 J Janotha, Miss, 318 Josefa (Infanta), 185 L La Granja: secret societies at, 124, 130; Maria Cristina at, 134; Queen Victoria at, 317, 341-2 Lacy, General, 98 Leon, Diego de, General, plot of, 143-5 Leopold, Charles, Baron de Colly, 76 Luisa Carlota of Naples, 106, 136-7, 142, 146-7, 163 Luisa Ferdinanda (Infanta), 144, 166; marriage, 166-7, 169-72, 197 M Macanáz, Pedro, Minister of Justice, 80-1 Madrid: riot of May 2, 1808, 64; in hands of Napoleon, 68; cholera at, 123; Don Carlos appears before, 128, 129 Marfori, Don Carlos, 209-10 Maria Antonia of Naples: marriage, 6; correspondence with Queen Caroline, 9-10; dissensions of, 11; death, 12 Maria Cristina of Naples, fourth wife of Ferdinand VII., 106-21; Regency of, 122-41; her beauty and charm, 107; influence at Court, 108-9; manifesto, 114; decree, 126; conduct in face of the rebels, 125-7; infatuation for and marriage with Muñoz, 129-33, 156; daughter by Muñoz, 134-5, 138; goes to Valencia, 140; to France, 141; returns to Spain, 156; visits her daughter, 173; unpopularity, 185-7; leaves Spain, 187; returns, 193, 242; influence over Alfonso XII., 271-2; grief at husband’s death, 276-7; Regent, 278-80, 264-304; devotion, 294-6, 306-8; decree as to, 310, 340 Maria Cristina of Austria, second wife of Alfonso XII., 262-5 Maria de las Mercedes, Princess of Asturias, 250, 339 Maria Francisca de Asis, wife of Don Carlos, 83 Maria Josefa Amelia, third wife of Ferdinand VII., 92-5; death, 105; her character, 105-6 Maria Luisa of Parma: marries Charles IV., 2; Queen, 3; infatuation for Godoy, 4, 8; letters to her daughter, 30-4, 39; correspondence, 40-3, 47, 59; at Bayonne, 61 Maria Luisa, Princess of Etruria, 34; writes to Murat, 42, 144 Maria Mercedes, Queen of Alfonso XII., 256-7; death, 258-9; funeral, 259-60 Maria Teresa (Infanta), 267, 319, 321, 328-9, 331, 339