LOT-Y8. For your consideration is a rare and important hand-signed Royal manuscript document by Queen Maria Cristina of Spain, spouse of King Alfonso XIII of Spain. Hand Signed in 1896 by The Queen. Royal document is watermarked. Document measures approximately 13.25" x 9.25". Guaranteed original and authentic. Archduchess Maria Christina Henriette Desideria Felicitas Raineria of Austria (Spanish: María Cristina de Habsburgo; 21 July 1858 – 6 February 1929) was Queen consort of Spain as the second wife of Alfonso XIII. 

She ruled as queen regent during the vacancy of the throne between her husband's death in November 1885 and the birth of their son Alfonso XIII in May 1886, and subsequently also until the coming of age of the latter in May 1902. She's writing on behalf of her son King Alfonso XIII, because he is underage. She's writing to the president of Chile.

Document measuring 9" x 13" directed to the president of the Republic of Chile.  She's writing on behalf of her son King Alfonso XIII, because he is underage. Official document signed as Queen Regent of the Spanish Kingdom.  Signed in San Sebastian in August of 1896. Signed "Maria Cristina" at the bottom of the document with unidentifiable co-signer. 

Archduchess Maria Christina Henriette Desideria Felicitas Raineria of Austria, also known as Maria Christina Henrietta Désirée Félicité Rénière (21 July 1858 – 6 February 1929) was Queen of Spain as the second wife of King Alfonso XII. She was regent during the vacancy of the throne between her husband's death and her son's birth, and during the minority of their son, Alfonso XIII, between 1885 and 1902.

Known to her family as Christa, she was born at Židlochovice Castle (Groß Seelowitz), near Brünn (now Brno), in Moravia, a daughter of Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria. Her paternal grandparents were Archduke Charles of Austria and Princess Henriette Alexandrine of Nassau-Weilburg. Various sources attributed good traits to Maria Christina before her marriage. One states she was "tall, fair, sensible, and well educated". She was Princess-Abbess of the Theresian Royal and Imperial Ladies Chapter of the Castle of Prague (1875-1879).