What is Carlos, Prince of Asturias?
{{Infobox royalty | name = Carlos | title = [[Prince of Asturias]] | image = Alonso Sánchez Coello - Infant Don Carlos of Spain - Google Art Project.jpg | image_size = 150px | caption = Portrait by [[Alonso Sánchez Coello]], 1564. | house = [[House of Habsburg]] | father = [[Philip II of Spain]] | mother = [[Maria Manuela, Princess of Portugal]] | birth_date = {{Birth date|1545|7|8|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Valladolid]], [[Spain]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|1568|07|24|1545|07|08|df=y}} | death_place = [[Madrid]], [[Spain]] | burial_date = | burial_place = [[El Escorial]] | religion = [[Roman Catholicism]] |}} '''Carlos, Prince of Asturias''', also known as '''Don Carlos''' (8 July 1545 &ndash; 24 July 1568), was the oldest son of King [[Philip II of Spain]]. He was [[heir apparent]] to the [[throne]]. His mother was [[Maria Manuela of Portugal]]. She was the daughter of [[John III of Portugal]]. Carlos went [[Mental illness|mad]] and so his father put him in [[prison]] in early 1568. Carlos died after half a year of [[solitary confinement]]. His sad fate became a theme for a [[Don Carlos (play)|play]] by [[Friedrich Schiller]] and an [[Don Carlos|opera]] by [[Giuseppe Verdi]]. [[Category:1545 births]] [[Category:1568 deaths]] [[Category:Princes and Princesses of Asturias]] [[Category:People from Valladolid]] {{bio-stub}}