Princess Anne, Duchess of Calabria

Princess Anne Dowager Duchess of Calabria Born 4 December 1938 Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, Belgium Spouse Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria Issue Princess Cristina María, Archduchess of Austria Prince Pedro, Duke of Noto 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

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

• Princess Cristina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (born 1966 in Madrid); married, in 1994, at Ciudad Real, Pedro López-Quesada y Fernandez-Urrutia (b. 1964)
  • Victoria López-Quesada y de Borbón-Dos Sicilias (b. 1997)
  • Pedro López-Quesada y de Bórbon-Dos Sicilias (b. 2003)
• Princess María of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (b. 1967 in Madrid); married, in 1996, at Ciudad Real, Archduke Simeon of Austria (b. 1958), a grandson of Karl I of Austria.
  • Archduke Johannes of Austria (b. 1997)
  • Archduke Ludwig of Austria (b. 1998)
  • Archduchess Isabel of Austria (b. 2000)
  • Archduchess Carlota of Austria (b. 2003)
  • Archduke Philipp of Austria (b. 2007)
• Prince Pedro of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duke of Calabria (b. 1968 in Madrid); married
  • Prince Jaime of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duke of Noto and Capua (b. 1993)
  • Prince Juan of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (b. 2003)
  • Prince Pablo of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (b. 2004)
  • Prince Pedro of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (b. 2007)
  • Princess Sofía of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (b. 2008)
  • Princess Blanca of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (b. 2011)
  • Princess María of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (b. 2015)
• Princess Inés María of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (b. 1971 in Madrid); married in 2001 at Toledo Italian aristocrat Nob. Michele Carrelli Palombi dei Marchesi di Raiano (b. 1965)
  • Nob. Teresa Carrelli Palombi dei Marchesi di Raiano (b. 2003)
  • Nob. Blanca Carrelli Palombi dei Marchesi di Raiano (b. 2005)
• Princess Victoria of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (b. 1976 in Madrid); married Greek shipowner Markos Nomikos (b. 1965) in 2003.
  • Anastasios Nomikos (b. 2005)
  • Ana Nomikos (b. 2006)
  • Carlos Nomikos (b. 2008)
  • Simeon Nomikos (b. 2012)

Titles, styles, honours and arms

Titles and styles

• 1938–1965: Her Royal Highness Princess Anne of Orléans
• 1965–1994: Her Royal Highness Princess Anne of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, The Duchess of Calabria, Princess of Orleans
• 1994–2015: Her Royal Highness Princess Anne of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, The Duchess of Calabria, Grandee of Spain, Princess of Orleans
• 2015-present: Her Royal Highness Princess Anne of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, The Dowager Duchess of Calabria, Grandee of Spain, Princess of Orleans

Honours

• Dame Grand Cross of Justice of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George^[5]

Arms

Heraldry of Princess Anne
Coat of arms used as Princess of the House of Orleans (1938-1965) Coat of arms used as Duchess of Calabria (1965-2015) Coat of arms used as Dowager Duchess (Since 2015)

Ancestry

Ancestors of Princess Anne, Duchess of Calabria

16. Prince Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans (=20)               8. Robert, Duke of Chartres                       17. Duchess Helen of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (=21)               4. Jean, Duke of Guise                             18. Prince François, Prince of Joinville               9. Princess Françoise d'Orléans                       19. Princess Francisca of Brazil               2. Henri, Count of Paris                                   20. Prince Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans (=16)               10. Prince Philippe, Count of Paris                       21. Duchess Helen of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (=17)               5. Princess Isabelle d'Orléans                             22. Prince Antoine, Duke of Montpensier               11. Princess Marie Isabelle d'Orléans                       23. Infanta Luisa Fernanda of Spain               1. Anne d'Orléans, Duchess of Calabria                                         24. Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours               12. Prince Gaston, Count of Eu                       25. Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha               6. Pedro de Alcântara, Prince of Grão Para                             26. Pedro II of Brazil               13. Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil                       27. Teresa of the Two Sicilies               3. Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza                                   28. Count John Nepomuk Dobrzensky               14. Count John Dobrzensky                       29. Baroness Maria Friederike Wanczura               7. Countess Elisabeth Dobržensky de Dobrženicz                             30. Count Joseph Kottulinsky               15. Countess Elisabeth Kottulinsky von Kottulin und Krzischkowitz                       31. Countess Adelaide von Attems

References

1. Darryl Lundy (10 March 2007). "Anne Marguerite Brigitte Marie d'Orléans, Princesse d'Orléans". thePeerage.com. Retrieved 2008-10-03. External link in |publisher= (help)
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. 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)