Ángel de Iturbide y Huarte


Ángel María José Ignacio Francisco Xavier de Iturbide y Huarte was the second son of Agustín de Iturbide and Ana María Huarte who received the title of Mexican Prince during the First Mexican Empire by the Constituent Congress.
In 1854 he was appointed Secretary of the Mexican Legation in the United States. He married Alice Green Forrest, a girl from the District of Columbia, daughter of a US Army captain. Alice was reputed to be one of the great beauties of American society salons during the American Civil War. In this marriage was born Agustín de Iturbide y Green, grandson by male line of the first Mexican emperor and Heir Presumptive of Maximilian von Habsburg, emperor of Second Mexican Empire.

Decree

The Sovereign Mexican Constituent Congress decreed on June 22, 1822 the following: