El costurero de la reina ( the queen's sewing)

In 1850Don Antonio de Orleans and Maria Luis of Bourbon( Montepensier Dukes of Infants ) came to Seville to settle and live in the city .they  chose what was formerly the school building nautical San Telmo. As official residence . they bought it, embellished it and turned it into a palace called "Palacio de San Telmo" . The palace included a large hectares of gardens and was surrounded by a wall and in a corner built what is the "El costurero de la reina" (queen's sewing) in those years was built by its proximity to the River Guadalquivir as guardhouse and when there was military guard was used to stay rangers.

The Dukes of Montepensier had a son called him Philip but died at a young age and a daughter Merceditas that 15 years was grown  in the palace and in San Telmo's Garden.

The Duke of Montepensier did not become king because of various conflicts and his successor was the young King Alfonso XII (his nephew). King Alfonso XII fell in love with her cousin Merceditas and married her.

Dona Merceditas was very delicate health. When King Alfonso XII married Dona Merceditas lasted little happiness of the honeymoon, because Merceditas soon after arriving in Madrid started coughing and coughing. Doctors were alarmed and to remove the cold she was sent to recover in Seville. Merceditas  was a season trying to recover herself  with the Andalusian sunshin. So Merceditas left the palace every single morning sun supported by her governess and went to sewing where trying to distract sewing. (Therefore his famous name "the queen's sewing"But despite this Alfonso XII desperate watching his wife did not improve takes her to Sanlucar de Barrameda. But neither the sun nor the Seville sea breeze makes Mercedita recovers. After that, he returned to Madrid where She had  his appointment with death.

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