Princess Maria da Gloria of Orléans-Braganza

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Princess Maria da Gloria Henriqueta Dolores of Orléans-Braganza (b. December 13, 1946 in Petrópolis) is the former wife of Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia and is now the Duchess of Segorbe.

She is the daughter of Prince Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza and Princess Maria de la Esperanza of Bourbon-Two Sicilies.

Maria and Alexander had three sons, Prince Peter, Prince Philip of Yugoslavia and Prince Alexander.

She is now married to Ignacio de Medina y Fernández de Córdoba, Duke of Segorbe.

The Duchess of Sergorbe is a matrilineal 9th-generation descendant of Marie Leszczynska, Princess of Poland, Queen Consort of France, through an almost-three-century-long unbroken line of eight House of Bourbon daughters who all married into their own house.

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Marie Leszczynska, Queen Consort of France; Louise Elisabeth, Duchess of Parma; Maria Luisa, Queen of Spain; Maria Isabella, Queen of the Two Sicilies; Maria Cristina, Queen of Spain; Infanta Louise Fernande, Duchess of Montpensier; Marie Isabelle, Comtesse de Paris; Louise Francoise of Orleans, Infanta of the Two Sicilies; Infanta Maria de la Esperanza of the Two Sicilies, Princess of Orleans-Braganza; Princess Maria da Gloria of Orleans-Braganza, Crown Princess of Yugoslavia, Duchess of Segorbe.