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 | | Beside this political evolution, the years before the Carlist wars were marked with a deep economic crisis in Spain, partly spurred by the loss of the American provinces and by the bankruptcy of the state. |
 | | As the Carlist claimant, then Don Jaime, had close links with the Russian Imperial Family, had been unfairly mistreated by Austrian Emperor Franz Josef, and was also Head of the House of Bourbon, he favoured the Allies, but was living under house-arrest in Austria, with almost no communication with the political direction in Spain. |
 | | In 1960, Jaime de Borbón (Juan's eldest brother) proclaimed himself as Carlist Head (as "King Jaime IV of Spain"), as he claimed to be senior male by primogeniture of the dynasty. |
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