Edelmira, Countess of Covadonga

Edelmira Ignacia Adriana Sampedro-Ocejo y Robato (5 March 1906 – 23 May 1994) was known as the Countess of Covadonga after her marriage to Alfonso, former Prince of Asturias, in 1933.

The Spanish royal family did not accept the engagement and Edelmira soon had to suffer pressure from the messengers of Alfonso XIII, already exiled in Paris, who noticeably curtailed his son's monthly allowance, confiscated his five cars, and definitively obliged him to give up his right to succession.

No one from the Royal House attended the religious wedding at Sacred Heart Church in Ouchy, Lausanne, Switzerland, on 21 June 1933, and the invitations that the Count of Covadonga sent to friends and acquaintances were returned to him "with regret".

In New York City, Alfonso requested the marriage to be nullified and in Havana, Edelmira asked for a divorce, which eventually came to pass on 8 May 1937.

On that particular occasion, Edelmira's accusation was based on fact; Alfonso was secretly seeing another woman, Cuban model Marta Esther Rocafort-Altuzarra (18 September 1913 – 4 February 1993).

Alfonso and Edelmira.