page_title: Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia
section_title: Succession
hierarchical_section_title: Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia / Succession
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait painting of Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia, by Philip Laszlo. He is wearing the uniform of the noble order "Real Maestranza de Caballería de Sevilla" (Royal Cavalry Armoury of Seville).
context_page_description: Infante Jaime of Spain, Duke of Segovia, Duke of Anjou, was the second son of King Alfonso XIII of Spain and his wife Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg. He was born in the Royal Palace of La Granja de San Ildefonso in Segovia Province, and was consequently granted the non-substantive title of "Duke of Segovia", courtesy he held along with "Duke of Anjou" as the Legitimist pretender to the French throne. Jaime was a great-grandchild of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.
context_section_description: Because he was deaf, as the result of a childhood operation, he renounced his rights to the Spanish throne for himself and his descendants on 21 June/23 June 1933. He was then granted the title "Duke of Segovia" by King Alfonso XIII. After his father's death in 1941, he proclaimed himself the senior legitimate male heir of the House of Capet, heir to the French throne, and head of the House of Bourbon. He then took the title of "Duke of Anjou" and became, in the opinion of French legitimists, the de jure king of France as "Henri VI", though to a minority as "Jacques II" (after 1957, he signed all documents as Jacques Henri).
  In 1921, he became the 1,153rd Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece and Knight with Collar of the Order of Charles III and Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic both in 1925 (Collar of the Order of Isabella the Catholic in 1931). Later in 1941, following the death of his father and his ascendance to the title of King of France, Jaime adopted the Order of the Holy Spirit as his own by his right to the French Throne.
caption: Portrayed by László in uniform of the Real Maestranza de Caballería de Sevilla, 1927
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