Princess Anne, Duchess of Calabria

Princess Anne d'Orléans
Dowager Duchess of Calabria

Princess Anne and her husband Infante Carlos at a Mass of the Two Sicilian Royal Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George in Barcelona
Born (1938-12-04) 4 December 1938
Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, Belgium
Spouse Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria
Issue Princess Cristina
Archduchess Maria of Austria
Prince Pedro, Duke of Calabria
Princess Inés
Princess Victoria
Full name
French: Anne Marguerite Brigitte Marie
House Orléans
Father Prince Henri, Count of Paris
Mother Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza
Religion Roman Catholicism
Royal styles of
Princess Anne, Dowager Duchess of Calabria
Reference style Her Royal Highness
Spoken style Your Royal Highness
Alternative style Ma'am
French royal family
Orléanist

HRH The Count of Paris
HRH The Countess of Paris

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 fifth child[1] of Prince Henri, Count of Paris (1908–1999), Orleanist claimant to the defunct 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 the 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 Infante Alfonso of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duke of Calabria (1901–1964) and Princess Alice of Bourbon-Parma (1917-2017). 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 had five children:[1]

Titles, styles, honours and arms

Titles and styles

Honours

Arms

Ancestry

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Darryl Lundy (10 March 2007). "Anne Marguerite Brigitte Marie d'Orléans, Princesse d'Orléans". ThePeerage.com. Retrieved 2008-10-03.
  2. ↑ "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.
  3. 1 2 3 Kamm, Henry (13 May 1965), "French Princess Wed To Spaniard", The New York Times, Dreux
  4. ↑ "Anne de France, duchesse de Calabre". Mariees du Gotha.
  5. ↑ Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George (2008). "Membership of the Constantinian Order". Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George. Retrieved 2008-10-13. External link in |publisher= (help)
Princess Anne, Duchess of Calabria
Cadet branch of the House of Bourbon
Born: 4 December 1938
Italian nobility
Preceded by
Princess Alicia of Bourbon-Parma		 Duchess consort of Calabria
12 May 1965 – 5 October 2015 		Succeeded by
Sofía Landaluce y Melgarejo
Titles in pretence
Preceded by
Princess Alicia of Bourbon-Parma		 — TITULAR —
Queen consort of the Two Sicilies
12 May 1965 – 5 October 2015
Reason for succession failure:
Italian Unification under the House of Savoy		 Succeeded by
Sofía Landaluce y Melgarejo
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