Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Parma

Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Parma
Princess Maria Pia of Savoy
Spouse	Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia (m.1955 - div.1967) Prince Michel of Bourbon-Parma (m.2003)
Issue
Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia Prince Michael of Yugoslavia Prince Sergius of Yugoslavia Princess Helen of Yugoslavia
Full name
Maria Pia Elena Elisabetta Margherita Milena Mafalda Ludovica Tecla Gennara
Father	Umberto II of Italy
Mother	Princess Marie-José of Belgium
Born	24 September 1934 (1934-09-24) Naples, Italy

Italian Royal Family
HRH The Prince of Naples HRH The Princess of Naples HRH The Prince of Venice and Piedmont HRH The Princess of Venice and Piedmont HRH Princess Vittoria HRH Princess Luisa HRH Princess Maria Pia HRH Princess Maria Gabriella HRH Princess Maria Beatrice Extended family HI&RH The Dowager Archduchess of Austria-Este HRH Princess Maria Cristina HRH The Duke of Aosta HRH The Duchess of Aosta HRH The Duke of Apulia HRH The Duchess of Apulia HRH Prince Umberto HRH Prince Amedeo HRH Princess Bianca HRH Princess Mafalda HRH Princess Maria Isabella

Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Parma (née Princess Maria Pia of Savoy; born 24 September 1934) is the eldest daughter of Umberto II of Italy and Marie-José of Belgium. She is the older sister of Princess Maria Gabriella of Savoy, the Prince of Naples, and Princess Maria Beatrice of Savoy.

Biography

Maria Pia Elena Elisabetta Margherita Milena Mafalda Ludovica Tecla Gennara di Savoia was the second-born child of the Prince and Princess of Piedmont, born in Naples, Italy in 1934. Her parents, married since 1930, were unhappy together, as her mother confessed in an interview many years later (On n'a jamais été heureux, "We were never happy"), and separated after the Italian monarchy was abolished by plebiscite on 2 June 1946. Exiled, the family gathered briefly in Portugal, and she and her three younger siblings soon went with their mother to Switzerland while their father remained in Portugal. Being devout Catholics, her parents never divorced.

Marriage and issue

In 1955 she married Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia (born 1924), son of Prince Paul of Yugoslavia and Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark. However, the couple divorced in 1967. With Prince Alexander she has two sets of twins:

• Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia (born 1958)
• Prince Michael of Yugoslavia (born 1958)
• Prince Sergius "Serge" of Yugoslavia (born 1963), married to Eleonora Rajneri
• Princess Helene Olga Lydia Tamara Maria of Yugoslavia (born 1963), married to Thierry Gaubert
  • Milena Gaubert (born 1988)
  • Nastasia Gaubert (born 1991)

In 2003 she remarried to Prince Michel of Bourbon-Parma (born 1926), son of Prince René of Bourbon-Parma and Princess Margaret of Denmark. She has no issue with him. Through him she is a sister-in-law of Queen Anne of Romania.

Ancestry

Maria Pia's ancestors in three generations

16. Victor Emmanuel II of Italy

8. Umberto I of Italy

17. Archduchess Maria Adelaide of Austria

4. Victor Emmanuel III of Italy

18. Ferdinand, 1st Duke of Genoa

9. Princess Margherita of Savoy

19. Princess Elizabeth of Saxony

2. Umberto II of Italy

20. Mirko Petrović Njegoš, Grand Duke of Grahovo

10. Nicholas I of Montenegro

21. Anastasija Martinović

5. Princess Jelena of Montenegro

22. Peter Vukotić

11. Milena Vukotić

23. Jelena Voivodić

1. Princess Maria Pia of Savoy

24. Leopold I of Belgium

12. Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders

25. Princess Louise-Marie of France

6. Albert I of Belgium

26. Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern

13. Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

27. Princess Josephine of Baden

3. Princess Marie-José of Belgium

28. Maximilian Joseph, Duke in Bavaria

14. Karl-Theodor, Duke in Bavaria

29. Princess Ludovika of Bavaria

7. Duchess Elisabeth of Bavaria

30. Miguel of Portugal

15. Infanta Maria Josepha of Portugal

31. Adelaide of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg

External links

• Royalty visits the Hoover Institution Archives