Princess Marie Louise of Bulgaria

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Bulgarian Royal Family

HM The Tsar HM The Tsaritsa HRH The Prince of Turnovo HRH The Princess of Turnovo HRH Prince Boris HRH Prince Beltran HRH The Prince of Preslav HRH The Princess of Preslav HRH Princess Mafalda HRH Princess Olimpia HRH Prince Tassilo HRH The Prince of Panagiurishte HRH The Princess of Panagiurishte HRH Prince Mirko HRH Prince Lukás HRH Prince Tirso HRH The Prince of Vidin HRH The Princess of Vidin HRH Prince Umberto HRH Princess Sofia HRH Princess Kalina HRH Princess Marie Louise

Princess Maria Louise of Bulgaria (Bulgarian: Мария Луиза) (born January 13, 1933, Sofia) is the daughter of Tsar Boris III and Tsaritsa Ioanna and the older sister of Simeon II of Bulgaria.

After the abolition of the monarchy in 1946, Princess Maria Louise left the country with her mother and brother. They first lived in Egypt and then moved to Spain. She married Karl, Prince of Leiningen in a civil ceremony on 14 February 1957 in Amorbach and in a religious ceremony on 20 February 1957 in Cannes. The couple had two sons:

• Boris (born 1960)
• Hermann (born 1963)

Karl and Maria Luisa divorced in 1968.

On November 16, 1969 she married Bronislaw Chrobok, a Pole in Toronto, Canada. They currently live in Madison, New Jersey and have a daughter and a son:

• Alexandra Nadejda (born 1970)
• Pawel (born 1972)

Princess Maria-Louise is a member of the Board of Trustees of the American University in Bulgaria.

In 2001 she visited and toured the church of St John of Rila the Wonderworker in Chicago's Portage Park community area.

[edit] Ancestry

16. Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, 4th Prince of Kohary

8. August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, 5th Prince of Kohary

17. Maria Antonia Koháry de Csábrág

4. Ferdinand I of Bulgaria

18. Louis-Philippe of France

9. Princess Clémentine of Orléans

19. Maria Amalia of the Two Sicilies

2. Boris III of Bulgaria

20. Charles III, Duke of Parma

10. Robert I, Duke of Parma

21. Louise Marie Thérèse of France

5. Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma

22. Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies

11. Princess Maria Pia of the Two Sicilies

23. Maria Theresa of Austria

1. Princess Marie Louise of Bulgaria

24. Victor Emmanuel II of Italy

12. Umberto I of Italy

25. Maria Adelaide of Austria

6. Victor Emmanuel III of Italy

26. Ferdinand, 1st Duke of Genoa

13. Margherita of Savoy

27. Princess Elizabeth of Saxony

3. Giovanna of Italy

28. Mirko Petrović Njegoš

14. Nicholas I of Montenegro

29. Anastasija Martinović

7. Elena of Montenegro

30. Petar Vukotić

15. Milena Vukotić

31. Jelena Voivodić