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*[[Occitan language|Occitan]]: ''Anfós XIII''
*[[Galician language|Galician]]: ''Afonso XIII''
*[[Spanish language|Spanish]]: ''Alfonso XIII''}} ([[Spanish language|Spanish]]: ''Alfonso León Fernando María Jaime Isidro Pascual Antonio de Borbón y Habsburgo-Lorena''; [[French language|French]]: ''Alphonse Léon Ferdinand Marie Jacques Isidore Pascal Antoine de Bourbon''; 17 May 1886 – 28 February 1941), also known as '''El Africano''' or '''the African''' due to his [[Africanist (Spain)|Africanist]] views, was [[King of Spain]] from his birth in 1886 until 14 April 1931, when the [[Second Spanish Republic]] was proclaimed. He became a monarch at birth as his father, [[Alfonso XII]], had died the previous year. Alfonso's mother, [[Maria Christina of Austria]], served as regent until he assumed full powers on his sixteenth birthday in 1902.
 
Alfonso XIII's upbringing and public image were closely linked to the military estate; he often presented himself as a soldier-king.<ref>{{Cite journal|page=178|journal=Royal Studies Journal|volume=7|issue=2|year=2020|first=Carolyn|last=Harris|title=Raising Heirs to the Throne in Nineteenth Century Spain: The Education of the Constitutional Monarchy|doi=10.21039/rsj.270|s2cid=234552045|doi-access=free}}</ref> His effective reign started four years after the [[Spanish–American War]], when various social milieus projected their expectations of national regeneration onto him.<ref>{{Cite journal|page=319|first=Javier|last=Moreno Luzón|author-link=Javier Moreno Luzón|publisher=[[Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas|Editorial CSIC]]|location=Madrid|url=https://hispania.revistas.csic.es/index.php/hispania/article/view/398/400|trans-title=Alfonso el Regenerador. Performing Monarchy and Spanish Nationalist Imaginary, from a comparative perspective (1902–1913)|title=Alfonso el Regenerador. Monarquía escénica e imaginario nacionalista español, en perspectiva comparada (1902–1913)|journal=[[Hispania (journal)|Hispania]]|year=2013|volume=LXXIII|issue=244|issn=0018-2141|doi=10.3989/hispania.2013.009|doi-access=free}}</ref> Like other European monarchs of his time he played a political role, entailing a controversial use of his constitutional executive powers.{{Sfn|Moreno Luzón|2013|p=319}} [[Wedding of Alfonso XIII and Princess Victoria Eugenie|His wedding]] to [[Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg]] in 1906 was marred by [[Morral affair|an attempt at regicide]]; he was unharmed.