Infanta Alicia, Duchess of Calabria

Infanta Alicia Dowager Duchess of Calabria Born 13 November 1917 Vienna, Austria-Hungary 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 Bourbon-Parma (by birth) Bourbon-Two Sicilies (by marriage) Father Elias, Duke of Parma Mother Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria 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]

• Princess Teresa María of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (born 6 February 1937), married to Íñigo Moreno y Artega, Marqués de Laula, with seven children.
• Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria (16 January 1938 – 5 October 2015), married to Princess Anne of Orléans, with five children.
• Princess Inés María of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (born 18 February 1940), married to Luis de Morales y Aguado, with five children.

Genealogy

Alicia is the heir general of 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]

Titles and honours

• 1917-1936: Her Royal Highness Princess Alicia of Bourbon-Parma
• 1936-1960: Her Royal Highness Infanta Alicia of Spain, Princess of Bourbon-Parma
• 1960-1964: Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Calabria
• 1964–present: Her Royal Highness The Dowager Duchess of Calabria, Infanta of Spain
•  Spain : 1190th Dame of the Order of Queen Maria Luisa - ^[6]
• Dame Grand Cross of Justice of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George (1960). - ^[7]

Arms

Heraldry of Infanta Alicia
Coat of arms used as Spanish Infanta (1936-1960) Coat of arms used as Duchess of Calabria (1960-1964) Coat of arms used as Dowager Duchess (Since 1964)

Ancestry

Ancestors of Infanta Alicia, Duchess of Calabria

16. Charles II, Duke of Parma               8. Charles III, Duke of Parma                       17. Princess Maria Teresa of Savoy               4. Robert I, Duke of Parma                             18. Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry               9. Louise Marie Thérèse d'Artois                       19. Princess Caroline of Naples and Sicily               2. Elias, Duke of Parma                                   20. Francis I of the Two Sicilies               10. Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies                       21. Infanta Maria Isabella of Spain               5. Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies                             22. Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen               11. Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria                       23. Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg               1. Princess Alicia of Bourbon-Parma                                         24. Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen (= 22)               12. Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria                       25. Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg (= 23)               6. Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen                             26. Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary               13. Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria                       27. Duchess Maria Dorothea of Württemberg               3. Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria                                   28. Alfred Franz Friedrich Philipp, 10th Duke of Croÿ               14. Rudolf Maximilian Konstantin, 11th Duke of Croÿ                       29. Princess Eleonore Wilhelmine Luise of Salm-Salm               7. Princess Isabella of Croÿ                             30. Eugène, 8th Prince of Ligne               15. Princess Natalie of Ligne                       31. Augusta Charlotte Nathalie de Trazegnies

References

1. Darryl Lundy (10 May 2003). "Alice Maria di Borbone, Principessa di Parma". thePeerage.com. Retrieved 2008-10-02. External link in |publisher= (help)
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.
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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.
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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. External link in |publisher= (help)