acquire a document forbidding female succession from prime minister Tadeo Calomarde by force and throw it on the fire. When Calomarde tried to save the document, she struck him in the face, upon which he uttered the well known words: "Madame, white hands don't offend!". Some authors, like Comellas, consider the slap an urban legend. Slap or not, Luisa Carlotta was a formidable opponent to Calomarde in court. When the king recovered, on 31 December 1832 he named his daughter heiress again, and gave the queen full regency powers. During the last months of Ferdinand's life, while Maria Christina was regent, Carlotta stayed in the Spanish court and supported her sister in her governmental role. Carlotta was more active in government than her sister, to the point that first secretary Francisco Cea Bermúdez met with her more often than with the queen. When her niece became queen in 1833 with her sister as regent, the friendship between the sisters turned into rivalry, and she left Spain for Paris. Luisa Carlotta died at Madrid at the age of 39. Issue She had eleven children: Francisco de Asís Luis (1820–1821); died in infancy, Isabel Fernanda (1821–1897); married Count Ignacy Gurowski. Francisco de Asís, Duke of Cádiz (1822–1902); married Isabella II of Spain Enrique, Duke of Seville (1823–1870) Luisa Teresa (1824–1900), Don José María Osorio de Moscoso y Carvajal, Duke of Sessa Eduardo Felipe (1826–1830), died young Josefina Fernanda (1827–1910) María Teresa (1828–1829), died young Fernando María (1832–1854) María Cristina (1833–1902), married Prince Sebastian Gabriël de Bourbon, Infante of Spain and Portugal, great-grandson of King Charles III of Spain Amalia (1834–1905), married Prince Adalbert of Bavaria, youngest son of King Ludwig I of Bavaria. Ancestry References External links 1804 births 1844 deaths People from Portici Princesses of Bourbon-Two Sicilies Neapolitan princesses Sicilian princesses Spanish infantas Burials in the Pantheon of Infantes at El Escorial Italian Roman Catholics Daughters of kings