Don Javier de Borbón-Parma, el príncipe místico del carlismo

From Bourbon to Bourbon-Parme, his improvised surname is today synonymous with the last traditionalist crusade against the liberalism of his royal relatives. His fascinating story extends far beyond the foothills of Montejurra: from imperial Vienna to Belle Époque Paris, from conspiring in Lisbon with weapons hidden in golf bags to fighting in the mud of Flanders during the Great War, from inheriting the Carlist cause at the last minute to being expelled by Franco and driving thousands of kilometers through the snow to cross the border, from a Nazi camp to reluctantly assuming the legitimate throne and witnessing his end in the schism of his children. Far removed from both hagiography and vague neglect, and driven by direct access to previously unpublished family archives and testimonies gathered on-site, this work reconstructs, from its earliest stages, the little-known life of the man who was merely Xavier—his environment, his mystical faith, his evolution and that of his world—and establishes itself as a definitive biography of the last king of Carlism. Politician or ascetic? New democrat or ultramontane nobleman? Short-sighted or visionary? Perhaps simply a man of Pius XII, whom many will call a saint.