Infanta Alicia, Duchess of Calabria

Infanta Alicia
Duchess of Calabria
Spouse Infante Alfonso, Duke of Calabria
Issue Princess Teresa
Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria
Princess Inés María
Full name
Alicia Maria Teresa Francesca Luisa Pia Anna Valeria
House House of Bourbon
Father Elias, Duke of Parma
Mother Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria
Born 13 November 1917
Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Religion Roman Catholic

Infanta Alicia of Spain, Dowager Duchess of Calabria[1] (née: Princess of Bourbon-Parma; given names: Alicia Maria Teresa Francesca Luisa Pia Anna Valeria; born 13 November 1917)[1] is a daughter of Elias, Duke of Parma, and Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria.[1] Alicia was Duchess of Calabria through her marriage to Infante Alfonso, Duke of Calabria (1901–1964).[1] She has borne the title of Infanta of Spain from 1936,[2] and takes part in some of the activities that the Spanish Royal Family organises.[3] She was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary.[1]

Marriage and issue

Alicia married Infante Alfonso, Duke of Calabria (30 November 1901 - 3 February 1964), her second cousin and the eldest child and son of Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies and his wife Mercedes, Princess of Asturias, on 16 April 1936 in Vienna, Austria.[1] Alicia and Alfonso had three children:[1]

Genealogy

The arms of Princess Alicia

Alicia is the heir general the kings of Navarre, as well as of Edward the Confessor and David I of Scotland.[4] If the marriage of Maria Beatrice of Savoy to her uncle is deemed illegal, then Alicia, as heir of Maria Beatrice's next sister, would be the Jacobite pretender to the thrones of England, Scotland, France and Ireland. However, English and Scots law in 1688 (after which point Jacobites must admit it to be static, as changes would require the approval of the monarch, who they hold is not the person actually on the throne) stated that a marriage contracted outside of the realms was not challenged if it was legal in its own land; thus, since Maria Beatrice and her mother's brother Francis IV, Duke of Modena, received the pope's consent to marry, Alicia is not considered a claimant by the Jacobites.[5]

Honours

Ancestry

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Darryl Lundy (10 May 2003). "Alice Maria di Borbone, Principessa di Parma". thePeerage.com. Retrieved 2008-10-02.
  2. ↑ "Genealogy of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Real Casa de Borbón de las Dos Sicilias website". Borbone-due-sicilie.org. Retrieved 2012-05-18.
  3. ↑
  4. ↑ "Real casa de Borbón de las Dos Sicilias". Borbone-due-sicilie.org. Retrieved 2012-05-18.
  5. ↑ "The Infanta Alicia of Spain". Jacobite.ca. Retrieved 2008-07-19.
  6. ↑ Geneall
  7. ↑ Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George (2008). "Membership of the Constantinian Order". Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George. Retrieved 2008-10-13.