Prince Antoine of Bourbon-Two Sicilies

Prince Antoine Marie Joseph Alphonse Adam of Bourbon-Two Sicilies; (20 January 1929) is a member of the House Bourbon-Two Sicilies which ruled the defunct Kingdom of the Two Sicilies until 1860.

Family

Antoine was the only child of Prince Gabriel of the Two Sicilies by his first wife Princess Malgorzata Izabella Czartoryska. Antoine is a male-line great-grandson King Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies and an elder half-brother of Prince Casimir of the Two Sicilies.

Marriage

Prince Antoine married Duchess Elisabeth of Wurttemberg civilly on 18 July 1958 and religiously the next day at her parents' palace in Altshausen, Wurttemberg, Germany. She is the third child and second daughter of Duke Philipp Albrecht (heir of the kings of Wurttemberg, who were deposed in 1918) by his wife Archduchess Rosa of Austria.

Their four children are:

-Prince Francois Philipp Maria Josph Gabriel of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (born 20 June in Ravensburg). On 2 June 2000 he married at Geneva, Switzerland, Countess Alexandra Maria Drothea Nadine Cecilia of Schonborn-Wissentheid, member of a mediatized dynasty (born 2 June 1967 in Zurich), daughter of the 1964 first marriage of Count Franz Clemens of Schonborn-Wiesentheid (a banker, born in Breslau in 1939, a resident of New York City since his second divorce, from Princess Felizitas Reuss, in 1992) with Princess Tatjana Konstantinovna Gorchakov (born in New York 1940, residing Pully, Switzerland where she resumed her maiden name following divorce in 1974). Alexandra had been living in Lausanne since her 1995 divorce (marriage annulled religiously 17 January 2000) from Pedro Mello Vasconcellos Souza, son of the Marques Santa-Iria, whom she had married civilly in Pully in 1989. Francois's marriage was attended by his immediate family, but by neither of his Bourbon cousins who are rival pretenders to the Sicilian throne, Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria and Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Castro, nor by their heirs. Their children are

-Prince Antoine Gaetano Nicolas Istvan Marie of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (born 6 June 2003 in Geneva)

-Princess Dorothee Maria Amalia Tatiana Helene of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (10 May 2005 in Zurich)

-Princess Maria Carolina Johanna Rosa Cecilia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (born 18 July 1962 in Friedrichahafen), who married Andreas Baumbach (born 30 April 1963 in Tubingen) on 6 May 1988 in Tubingen.

-Prince Gennaro Maria Pio Casimir of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (born 27 January 1996 in Ravensburg)

-Princess Maria Annunziata Urraca Margarita Elisabeth of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (born 18 February 1973 in Friedrichshafen) who married Count Carl Fredrik Creutz (born 11 November 1971) on 2 August 2003 at St. Henry’s Cathedral in Helsinki.

Titles, Styles, Honors

Titles and Styles

20 January 1929-present: His Royal Highness Prince Antoine Marie Joseph Alphonse Adam of Bourbon-Two Sicilies

In addition to the historical princely rank which derives from membership in the historical House of Bourbon-Sicily, the title of Prince of Bourbon (Spanish: Prince of Bourbon) and the style of Royal Highness (Spanish: Alteza Real) were specifically accorded to Antoine’s father Gabriel of Bourbon, and to all children born of his dynastic marriage, by a Spanish royal decree issued 19 August 1920.

Honors

-Bailiff Grand Cross of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George

-Knight of the Order of Saint Januarius

-Knight of Honor and Devotion of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta

House: Bourbon-Two Sicilies

Religion: Roman Catholic

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