DID YOU KNOW…
...that if King Ferdinand VII, the father of Isabella II, did not abolish the Salic Law (which forbade the succession of a woman to the throne), the next Spanish ruler would have been his brother, Carlos, and El Banco Español Filipino de Isabel 2 might have been named after him instead?
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…that Isabella II was only 3 years old when she inherited the Spanish throne following the death of her father in 1833?
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…that Queen Isabella II was 21 years old when the first bank in the Philippines (and Southeast Asia) was established and named after her in 1851?
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…that the name of the bank was eventually shortened to El Banco Español Filipino effective September 3, 1869 after the dethronement of Isabella II as queen of Spain in 1868?