Meanwhile in Spain, the repressive regime of King Fernando VII continued unchanged into the early 1830s until the monarch succumbed to a fatal attack of gout in September 1833. With his infant daughter enthroned as Queen Isabella II (1830–1904), steered from behind the scenes by Fernando’s widow Maria Cristina (1806–78), the liberals were able to take advantage of the government’s weakness by forcing through a moderate liberal constitution in 1834.
