Princess Anne, Duchess of Calabria

Princess Anne of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Dowager Duchess of Calabria (nee Princess Anne of Orleans; born 4 December 1938, Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, Belgium) is the widow of Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria. Princess Anne is the third daughter and the fifth child of Prince Henri, Count of Paris (1908-1999), claimant to the French throne, and his wife Princess Isabelle of Orleans-Braganza (1911-2003).

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. The bride wore a Balmain silk gown of Lyonnaise lace, embroidered with fleurs de lys.

Prince Carlos was the son of Alfonso of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duke of Calabria (1901-1964) and Princess Alice of Bourbon-Parma (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 Anne was a bridesmaid.

The Duke and Duchess of Calabria lived in Spain.

Children

Anne and Carlos have five children:

-Princess Cristina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (born 1966 in Madrid); married, in 1994, at Ciudad Real, Pedro Lopez-Quesada Fernandez-Urrutia (b. 1964)

-Victoria Lopez-Quesada Borbon-Dos Sicilias (b. 1997)

-Pedro Lopez-Quesada Borbon-Dos Sicilias (b. 2003)

-Princess Maria of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (b. 1967 in Madrid); married, in 1996, at Ciudad Real, Archduke Simeon 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 (2003)

-Prince Pablo of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (b.2004)

-Prince Pedro of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (b.2007)

-Princess Sofia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (b. 2008)

-Princess Blanca of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (b.2011)

-Princess Maria of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (b.2015)

-Princess Ines Maria 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 de 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

Titles and Styles

1938-1965: Her Royal Highness Princess of Orleans

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

House: Orleans

Religion: Roman Catholic

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