Please answer the following question: Facts: - issue: don alonso juan de orleans-borbon y goeders - caption: arms of the duke of galliera - reign: 22 august 1997 -- present - mother: emilia ferrara-pignatelli - spouse: veronique goeders - predecessor: infante alvaro - house: orleans-galliera - father: don alonso de orleans-borbon y parodi-delfino - birth date: 5 january 1968 - name: don alfonso - image: coat duke of galliera.svg of arms of alfonso of orleans , v - birth place: santa cruz de tenerife , spain - religion: roman catholicism Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of alfonso de orleans-borbon , duke of galliera .
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don alfonso de orleans-borbon y ferrara-pignatelli , duke of galliera -lrb- born 2 january 1968 -rrb- is the founder of racing engineering , a spanish racing team .he was born at santa cruz de tenerife , spain .the first son of alonso de orleans-borbon y parodi-delfino -lrb- elder son of infante alvaro , duke of galliera and of carla parodi delfino -rrb- and emilia ferrara-pignatelli -lrb- daughter of vincenzo ferrara-pignatelli and of francesca pulci-doria -rrb- .he competed at the 1994 and 1995 24 hours of le mans , finishing fourth in the gt2 class in his 1994 debut .alfonso is the president of racing engineering which he founded in 1999 .as his father died when he was seven , alfonso inherited the title of duke of galliera from his grandfather infante alvaro .despite being a descendant of princess beatrice of saxe-coburg and gotha , granddaughter of queen victoria , as a roman catholic he is not in the line of succession to the british throne .