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Prince Alfonso de Bourbon, Duke of Cádiz

1936–1989

Born
20 Apr 1936, Rome
Country of birth
Kingdom of Italy, today Italy
Died
30 Jan 1989, Beaver Creek Resort
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  • Birth20 Apr 1936, RomeProbable1 source
  • Titleambassador of Spain to Sweden, 1969–1972Confirmed1 competing claim1 source
  • TitlePresident of Spain's Olympic Comitee, 1984–1987Confirmed1 competing claim1 source
  • Death30 Jan 1989, Beaver Creek ResortProbable1 source
  • ParentInfante Jaime, Duke of SegoviaConfirmed1 source
  • ParentEmmanuelle de DampierreConfirmed1 source

A life in time

  1. Born · Rome

    Birth, Rome

  2. Event · ambassador of Spain to Sweden

    Event

  3. Child born: Francisco de Asís, Duke of Bourbon

    Birth, Madrid

  4. Child born: Louis Alphonse de Bourbon

    Birth, Madrid

  5. Event · President of Spain's Olympic Comitee

    Event

  6. Died · Beaver Creek Resort

    Death, Beaver Creek Resort

What was it like?

The world around Rome, 1936: who ruled, who else was alive, how people lived. This is general history, not a record about the family, and every item shows where it comes from.

When Prince was born in 1936, Rome belonged to the Kingdom of Italy, ruled by Otto I the Great.

Known for

Titles held

  • ambassador of Spain to Sweden1969–1972
  • President of Spain's Olympic Comitee1984–1987
Who ruled

  • Otto I the Great

    Monarch of Italy, 951 · Kingdom of Italy

  • Adelaide of Italy

    Monarch of Italy, 947 · Kingdom of Italy

  • Victor Emmanuel III of Italy

    Monarch of Italy, 1900–1946 · Kingdom of Italy

Born around the same time

  • Romano Prodi

    1939 · Italian politician and economist (born 1939)

  • Giorgio Armani

    1934 · Italian fashion designer (1934–2025)

  • Elvis Presley

    1935 · American singer and actor (1935–1977)

  • Woody Allen

    1935 · American filmmaker, actor and comedian (born 1935)

  • Carl Sagan

    1934 · American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)

  • Garrincha

    1933 · Brazilian association football player (1933–1983)

Fashion

Homemade Clothing and Tailoring Prevailed

Most Italians wore clothing made by home seamstresses or tailors because ready-to-wear garments were not yet common. Women often sewed, remade, or dyed garments at home as a productive leisure activity.

Rural Women Wore Regional Costumes

Rural housewives were sometimes permitted to wear traditional regional costumes during parades as an alternative to the official uniform. The regime promoted this to emphasize national tradition rather than personal style.

Music

Domestic dancing in working-class homes

Working-class families often hosted dances at home by moving furniture aside to make space, playing music on a gramophone or the radio.

Radio opera in rural homes

Rural families listened to opera broadcasts on the radio at home, treating the experience as a theatrical event.

Getting around

Fiat 500 Topolino introduction in 1936

The Fiat 500, introduced in 1936 and known as the Topolino, cost 1,300 lire and became the car for the majority of Italians.

Carriage travel San Marino to Rimini

Traveling 25 km between San Marino and Rimini by horse-drawn carriage took three hours in summer, increasing to four or five hours in winter when horses were replaced by mules or oxen.

Daily life

Cramped sleeping and cold winters

Sleeping arrangements were often cramped, with some families sharing a single bed among many people or using mattresses filled with cornhusks or sheep wool that felt as hard as a rock. In cold weather, they relied on warmers, such as the prete or trabiccolo, to heat their beds.

Limited access to basic utilities

Many homes lacked electricity or running water; families often used lanterns with oil wicks for light and fetched water from public town fountains.

Food

Meatless days as patriotic duty

To promote autarky, the regime mandated meatless Wednesdays and closed butcher shops on Tuesdays, framing these restrictions as a patriotic duty for consumers.

Around 1939–1939

Chicory coffee during rationing

When coffee was rationed in 1939, laborers often drank a bitter chicory brew, sometimes corrected with grappa.

Prices and wages
Around 1940–1940

Food and clothing prices in 1940

In 1940, a kilogram of bread cost 1.60 lire, while a kilogram of beef cost 7 lire and a pair of shoes cost at least 30 lire.

Around 1941–1945

Escalating costs of footwear during war

The cost of men's shoes in Turin increased from about 156 lire in 1941 to over 3,000 lire by 1945.

During their lifetime

  1. 1946

    Italy becomes a Republic

    In 1946, Italian voters chose to abolish the monarchy in a referendum, leading to the birth of the Republic.

  2. 1954

    Supreme Court Ends School Segregation

    In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that state-sponsored segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.

  3. 1955

    Polio Vaccine Developed

    The polio vaccine, developed by Jonas Salk in 1955, helped eliminate the frequent epidemics that once paralyzed thousands of children each year.

  4. 1956

    Interstate Highway System Created

    In 1956, President Eisenhower signed the Interstate Highway Act, which authorized the construction of 41,000 miles of highway over 20 years.

  5. 1957

    Fiat 500 launched

    The launch of the Fiat 500 in 1957 helped transform the daily lives of families by making private motorization widely accessible.

  6. 1964

    Civil Rights Act Passed

    The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed to outlaw discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

Family

Parents

Spouses

Children

Ancestors and children

Open the full tree

Four generations back to the right, the children to the left. The number beside a child counts the generations of descendants known after them.