Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia

Jaime Luitpold Isabelino Enrique de Borbón y Battenberg, Infante of Spain, Duke of Segovia (June 23, 1908- March 20, 1975), was the second son of King Alfonso XIII of Spain and his wife Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg. He was born in the royal palace of Granja de San Ildefonso in Segovia.

Because he was deaf-mute as the result of a childhood operation, he renounced his rights to the Spanish throne for himself and his descendants on June 23, 1933. He then became Duke of Segovia. In 1941, however, he proclaimed himself the legitimate heir to the French throne and head of the House of Bourbon, calling himself the Duke of Anjou. He was known to the French legitimists as Henri VI (after 1957, he signed all documents as Jacques Henri).

Jaime married, without his father's consent and in violation of the laws of both France and Spain, in Rome on March 4, 1935 Victoire Jeanne Joséphine Emmanuelle de Dampierre (born 1913), daughter of the French nobleman Roger de Dampierre, 2° Duke of San Lorenzo and Viscount of Dampierre, Nobleman of Viterbo (* Tours 9-5-1892 + Chaumont-sur-Tharonne 14-2-1975) and of the Italian noblewoman Vittoria Ruspoli (* Roma 31-12-1892 + ivi 13-1-1982), and they had two sons (considered illegitimate in Spain), named for Jaime's hemophiliac brothers, Alfonso and Gonzalo:

• Alfonso de Borbón Dampierre (French citizen as Alphonse de Bourbon) (1936–1989).
• Gonzalo de Borbón y de Dampierre (French citizen as Gonzalve de Bourbon) (1937-2000). He married three times, but his only daughter is an illegitimate one he legally recognized.

Jaime and Emmanuelle de Dampierre divorced in 1947 in Bucarest (recognized by the Italian courts in 1949 but not in Spain where the marriage was never regarded as legal or canonical) and, on August 3, 1949 in Innsbruck, Jaime remarried to the divorced singer Charlotte Luise Auguste Tiedemann (1919-1979).

On December 6, 1949, Jaime attempted to revoke his renunciation of the throne of Spain. On May 3, 1964, he took the title Duke of Madrid as head of the carlist movement and was recognized as King Jaime IV of Spain by a small group of Carlists). On July 19, 1969, Jaime definitively renounced the Spanish succession in favour of his nephew, the current King Juan Carlos I of Spain, with the active support of his son Alfonso de Borbón.

Don Jaime died in St. Gall Cantonal Hospital in Switzerland on March 20, 1975. He's buried at the Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial in the section reserved for junior members of the Spanish Royal Family.