Sixto Enrique de Borbón

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There is an earlier Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma who was an officer to the Belgian army in the First World War.

Sixto Enrique de Borbón, styled by his followers His Royal Highness Sixtus Henry of Bourbon and Bourbon Busset, Duke of Aranjuez, Infante of Spain, Prince of Parma and Piacenza, Regent of the Traditionalist Communion, Standard-bearer of Tradition, is the current Carlist pretender to the throne of Spain.

Born in Pau, France, on 22 July 1940, second son to Francis Xavier of Bourbon and Bragança (then Prince Regent, later pretender to the throne of the Spains and Duke of Parma) and to Madeleine of Bourbon Busset.

From an early age he honoured his condition as a claimant to a Christian prince's title, devoting himself to the cause of Carlism and Counterrevolution.

He studied with the Christian Brothers, Benedictines and Marists, as well as with his preceptress, Professor María Teresa Angulo, from Madrid. He later took courses in law, classical and modern languages, and finance.

Under the nom de guerre Enrique Aranjuez he enlisted in the Spanish Foreign Legion in 1965. On 2 May that year he swore the Spanish flag with the oath then in use, which excluded political compromise (as opposed to the later one, which states fidelity to the Spanish Constitution of 1978).

Sixtus Henry's followers claim his older brother Carlos Hugo of Bourbon, Duke of Parma abandoned the ideological ideals of his branch of the family and believe Prince Sixtus Henry has become head of the Traditionalist Communion. Charles Hugo has abandoned the carlist claim to the throne and has reconciled with the Spanish state. Sixtus Henry made his claim of being Regent when his father King Xavier died in 1977, and took the title of Standard-bearer of Tradition. As of 1979, he is the only Carlist claimant left to the throne of Spain.

He was present at the episcopal ordination of four bishops who belong to the Society of Saint Pius X by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre on 30 June 1988 at Ecône, Switzerland, and was the first to publicly congratulate him.

Sixto Enrique de Borbón has travelled widely in the Hispanic world, both Spanish and Portuguese-speaking. In January 2001, while travelling through Argentina, he suffered a serious traffic accident, from which he is still recovering.