Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz

Infanta Pilar
Infanta of Spain; Duchess of Badajoz
Dowager Viscountess de la Torre
Born (1936-07-30) 30 July 1936
Cannes, France
Spouse Luis Gómez-Acebo, Viscount de la Torre (m. 1967; d. 1991)
Issue Simoneta Gómez-Acebo y de Borbón
Juan Gómez-Acebo y de Borbón, Viscount de la Torre
Bruno Gómez-Acebo y de Borbón
Luis Gómez-Acebo y de Borbón
Fernando Gómez-Acebo y de Borbón
Full name
María del Pilar Alfonsa Juana Victoria Luisa Ignacia y Todos los Santos (et omnes sancti) de Borbón y Borbón-Dos Sicilias
House Bourbon
Father Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona
Mother Princess María Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
Religion Roman Catholicism
Royal styles of
Infanta Pilar of Spain,
Duchess of Badajoz
Reference style Her Royal Highness
Spoken style Your Royal Highness
Alternative style Ma'am

Infanta Pilar of Spain, Duchess of Badajoz, Dowager Viscountess de la Torre (María del Pilar Alfonsa Juana Victoria Luisa Ignacia y Todos los Santos de Borbón y Borbón-Dos Sicilias[1]) (born 30 July 1936, in Cannes) is the elder daughter of Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona and Princess María Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, and older sister of King Juan Carlos I. She has also a younger sister, Infanta Margarita of Spain.

Early life

Infanta Pilar spent her early years at the royal family's home in exile at Estoril in Portugal.

She was a bridesmaid at the 1962 wedding of her brother Prince Juan Carlos of Spain and Princess Sophia of Greece and Denmark in Athens.

Marriage and family

Pilar needed to renounce her rights of succession to the Spanish throne to marry a commoner as stipulated by the Pragmatic Sanction of Charles III on marriages of members of the royal family.

She married Don Luis Gómez-Acebo y Duque de Estrada, Viscount de la Torre, Grandee of Spain (Madrid, 23 December 1934 – Madrid, 9 March 1991) on 5 May 1967 in Lisbon, Portugal. He was the fourth of six children, of Jaime Gómez-Acebo y Modet (ca. 1900 – ?) and wife (m. 1927) Isabel Duque de Estrada y Vereterra, 9th Marchioness de Deleitosa (ca. 1903 – ?). Jaime Gómez-Acebo y Modet was a son of the 3rd Marquess de Cortina and an uncle of Margarita Gómez-Acebo y Cejuela. They had five children:

On 27 February 2016 Don Luis Beltrán Ataúlfo Alfonso Gómez-Acebo y de Borbón married Andrea Pascual Vicens at his mother's home in Puerta de Hierro, Madrid.

Equestrian sport

Pilar de Borbón has been supporting international equestrian sport. She was President of the International Equestrian Federation from 1994 to 2005, succeeded by HRH Princess Haya bint al Hussein. She wrote the foreword of the official Spanish translation of the national instruction handbook of the German National Equestrian Federation, Técnicas Avanzadas de Equitación - Manual Oficial de Instrucción de la Federación Ecuestre Alemana.[9]

From 1996 to 2006 she was a member of the International Olympic Committee for Spain, when she became an honorary member, and Member of the Executive Board of the Spanish Olympic Committee.

From 2007 to 2009 she was President of Europa Nostra, the pan-European federation for cultural heritage.

Financial holdings

Mossack Fonseca files document that in August 1974, Pilar de Borbón became president and director of the Panama-registered company Delantera Financiera SA (registered May 1969) with her husband as secretary-treasurer and director. In 1993, London-based Timothy Lloyd who had represented the undisclosed owner of the company said that Pilar de Borbón owned it. After March 1993, the intermediary representing the company was Madrid-based Gómez-Acebo & Pombo Abogados, a law firm founded by Pilar de Borbón's brother-in-law Ignacio Gómez-Acebo. From July 2006 until its dissolution in June 2014 Pilar de Borbón's son Bruno Alejandro Gómez-Acebo Borbón was director and treasurer of the company.[10]

Titles, styles, honours and arms

Letterhead of Infanta Pilar.

Titles

The Infanta's style and title in full: Her Royal Highness Doña María del Pilar Alfonsa Juana Victoria Luisa Ignacia de Todos los Santos de Borbón y Borbón-Dos Sicilias de Gómez-Acebo, Infanta of Spain, Duchess of Badajoz, Viscountess Dowager of la Torre.

Honours

See also List of honours of the Spanish Royal Family by country

National Orders
Foreign Orders
Former sovereign families

Arms

Arms of Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz
Notes
The Duchess's personalized coat of arms is based on the arms of the monarch in right of Spain.
Crest
The crown of Infantes of Spain
Escutcheon
Quarterly: 1 gules a castle triple-embattled with three towers each triple-turreted or masoned sable and ajouré azure; 2 argent a lion rampant purpure crowned or, langued and armed gules; 3 or, four pallets gules; 4 gules a cross, saltire and orle of chains linked together or, a centre point vert; enté en point argent, a pomegranate proper seeded gules, supported, sculpted and leafed in two leaves vert.
Inescutcheon: azure bordured gules, three fleurs-de-lys or. The whole differenced by a label of three points azure, charged on the middle point with a lion gules fimbriated or and one of the Pillars of Hercules argent and on the outer points with an oak proper fimbriated or.
Orders
The Grand Cross of the Order of Charles III ribbon.
Banner
The Duchess of Badajoz's personal Royal Standard is that of the Spanish Monarch (a crimson square flag) with a swallow-tail and charged with her personalized coat of arms.[17]
Symbolism
As with the Royal Arms of Spain. The first quarter are the arms of Castile, the second of León, the third of Aragon and the fourth of Navarre. Enté en point, the arms of Granada. Inescutcheon, the arms of Bourbon-Anjou.

A lion gules with one of the Pillars of Hercules argent has been the arms of Badajoz, an oak has been a charge of the arms of Extremadura.[18][19]

Previous versions

Until 1991 As a married woman the Duchess of Badajoz has her arms displayed on an oval shield.

Ancestry

Footnotes and References

  1. ↑ Infanta Pilar's actual given name is María del Pilar; however, due to the high number of women in Spain named María, as is the convention, she uses the name Pilar. For more information, see Spanish names.
  2. ↑ (22-10-2012)Simoneta and José Miguel divorced Hola.com (Spanish)
  3. ↑ Civil Wedding of the Viscount de la Torre bekia.es
  4. ↑ Separation of Beltrán Gómez-Acebo and Laura Ponte noblesseetroyautes.com
  5. ↑ (2011) Divorce of Beltrán Gómez-Acebo vanitatis.com (Spanish)
  6. ↑ . .thepeerage.com http://www.thepeerage.com/p8948.htm#i89480. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. ↑ (2011)Interview with Mónica Martín Luque Hola
  8. ↑ Vanitatis (Spanish)
  9. ↑ Federación Ecuestre Alemana (2012). Picobello Publishing. ed. Técnicas Avanzadas de Equitación - Manual Oficial de Instrucción de la Federación Ecuestre Alemana. Picobello Publishing. pp. 278. ISBN 9788493672188.
  10. ↑ (3 April 2016) The Power Players, Juan Carlos I of Spain - Pilar de Borbón The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, retrieved 5 April 2016
  11. ↑ Geneall
  12. ↑ Boletín Oficial del Estado
  13. ↑ Wedding of Juan Carlos of Spain and Sophia of Greece
  14. ↑ Portugal
  15. ↑ Portugal State visit to Spain
  16. ↑ Membership of the Constantinian Order
  17. ↑ (Spanish) Royal Cadency of Spain-Standards. Blog de Heráldica – 1 November 2010. (Retrieved 10 October 2012)
  18. ↑ "Cadency of the Spanish Royal House" (in Spanish). José Juan Carrión Rangel, Blog de heráldica. Retrieved 2009-11-29.
  19. ↑ Proyecto Galicia : Serie de Heráldica Genealogía y Nobiliaria. T. V (LVIII). La Coruña: Hércules de Ediciones, 2011. ISBN 978-84-92715-31-2. P. 529.
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