Princess Anne, Duchess of Calabria
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Princess Anne of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Dowager Duchess of Calabria[1] (née Princess Anne of Orléans; born 4 December 1938, Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, Belgium[1]) is the widow of Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria.[1] Princess Anne is the third daughter and the fifth child[1] of Prince Henri, Count of Paris (1908–1999), claimant to the French throne,[2] and his wife Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza (1911–2003).[1]
Biography
Marriage
On 12 May 1965, at Dreux, France, Princess Anne married Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duke of Calabria (1938-2015), one of the two claimants to be Head of the Royal House of Two Sicilies.[1][3] The bride wore a Balmain silk gown of Lyonnaise lace, embroidered with fleurs de lys. [4]
Prince Carlos was the son of Alfonso of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duke of Calabria (1901–1964) and Princess Alice of Bourbon-Parma (born 1917). Though they had known each other since childhood, their romantic relationship began in Athens, in 1962, at the wedding of the future King Juan Carlos of Spain to Princess Sophia of Greece, at which Princess Anne was a bridesmaid.[3]
The Duke and Duchess of Calabria lived in Spain.[3]
Children
Anne and Carlos hac five children:[1]
- Princess Cristina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (born 1966 in Madrid); married, in 1994, at Ciudad Real, Pedro López-Quesada y Fernandez-Urrutia (b. 1964)
- Victoria López-Quesada y de Borbón-Dos Sicilias (b. 1997)
- Pedro López-Quesada y de Bórbon-Dos Sicilias (b. 2003)
- Princess María of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (b. 1967 in Madrid); married, in 1996, at Ciudad Real, Archduke Simeon of Austria (b. 1958), a grandson of Karl I of Austria.
- Archduke Johannes of Austria (b. 1997)
- Archduke Ludwig of Austria (b. 1998)
- Archduchess Isabel of Austria (b. 2000)
- Archduchess Carlota of Austria (b. 2003)
- Archduke Philipp of Austria (b. 2007)
- Prince Pedro of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duke of Calabria (b. 1968 in Madrid); married
- Prince Jaime of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duke of Noto and Capua (b. 1993)
- Prince Juan of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (b. 2003)
- Prince Pablo of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (b. 2004)
- Prince Pedro of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (b. 2007)
- Princess Sofía of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (b. 2008)
- Princess Blanca of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (b. 2011)
- Princess María of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (b. 2015)
- Princess Inés María of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (b. 1971 in Madrid); married in 2001 at Toledo Italian aristocrat Nob. Michele Carrelli Palombi dei Marchesi di Raiano (b. 1965)
- Nob. Teresa Carrelli Palombi dei Marchesi di Raiano (b. 2003)
- Nob. Blanca Carrelli Palombi dei Marchesi di Raiano (b. 2005)
- Princess Victoria of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (b. 1976 in Madrid); married Greek shipowner Markos Nomikos (b. 1965) in 2003.
- Anastasios Nomikos (b. 2005)
- Ana Nomikos (b. 2006)
- Carlos Nomikos (b. 2008)
- Simeon Nomikos (b. 2012)
Titles, styles, honours and arms
Titles and styles
- 1938–1965: Her Royal Highness Princess Anne of Orléans
- 1965–1994: Her Royal Highness Princess Anne of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, The Duchess of Calabria, Princess of Orleans
- 1994–2015: Her Royal Highness Princess Anne of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, The Duchess of Calabria, Grandee of Spain, Princess of Orleans
- 2015-present: Her Royal Highness Princess Anne of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, The Dowager Duchess of Calabria, Grandee of Spain, Princess of Orleans
Honours
Arms
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Ancestry
References
- ^ a b c d e f g Darryl Lundy (10 March 2007). "Anne Marguerite Brigitte Marie d'Orléans, Princesse d'Orléans". thePeerage.com. Retrieved 2008-10-03.
{{cite web}}: External link in|publisher= - ^ "Milestones: May 21, 1965". Time. 1965-05-21. Retrieved 2011-06-05.
Married. Princess Anne of France, 26, daughter of the Count of Paris, Bourbon pretender to the French throne; and Prince Carlos de Bourbon, 27, man-about-Madrid, her tenth cousin, himself a disputed minor pretender to the Spanish throne; in Dreux, France.
- ^ a b c Kamm, Henry (13 May 1965), "French Princess Wed To Spaniard", The New York Times, Dreux
- ^ "Anne de France, duchesse de Calabre". Mariees du Gotha.
- ^ Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George (2008). "Membership of the Constantinian Order". Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George. Retrieved 2008-10-13.
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- 1938 births
- Living people
- People from Woluwe-Saint-Pierre
- House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
- Princesses of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
- House of Orléans
- Princesses of France (Orléans)
- Dames Grand Cross of Justice of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George
- French Roman Catholics
- Duchesses of Calabria
- 20th-century Roman Catholics
- 21st-century Roman Catholics