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A cropped version of this photo ran in The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.), July 30, 1916 with the caption "KING ALPHONSO, of Spain is one of the European monarchs who can still laugh. Not many of his fellow-rulers can now attain a similar state of mind. " oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn83045782/1916-07-30/ed-1/se...

Thanks swanq and Art Siegel. We'll add his name and change the upper date range to 1916.

From Wiki Jules Henri Poincaré (29 April 1854 – 17 July 1912) (French pronunciation: [ˈʒyl ɑ̃ˈʁi pwɛ̃kaˈʁe][1]) was a French mathematician, theoretical physicist, and a philosopher of science. Poincaré is often described as a polymath, and in mathematics as The Last Universalist, since he excelled in all fields of the discipline as it existed during his lifetime.

That's nice, but it was established last week, in comments on an identical copy of this image (posted with last week's batch of LOC photos) that this is not Henri, but Raymond Poincare (1860-1934), the President of France, being welcomed on a visit to Spain by King Alfonso XIII. Alfonso had been Poincare's guest in Paris, several months earlier.

sorry I guess I missed that discussion. Should I delete my comment?

The name of the Queen was Victoria Eugenia, Ena was the used by the Brittish public. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Victoria_Eugenie_of_Batten...

Alfonso XIII: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_XIII_of_Spain

Misspelling: should be Battenberg, not Battenburg

B-59: we will fix the typo. Thanks!