Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz
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| Infanta of Spain; Duchess of Badajoz Dowager Viscountess de la Torre |
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30 July 1936 Cannes, France |
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| Spouse | Luis Gómez-Acebo, Viscount de la Torre (m. 1967; d. 1991) | ||||
| Issue | Simoneta Gómez-Acebo y de Borbón Juan Gómez-Acebo y de Borbón, Viscount de la Torre Bruno Gómez-Acebo y de Borbón Luis Gómez-Acebo y de Borbón Fernando Gómez-Acebo y de Borbón |
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| House | Bourbon | ||||
| Father | Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona | ||||
| Mother | Princess María Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies | ||||
| Religion | Roman Catholicism | ||||
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| María del Pilar Alfonsa Juana Victoria Luisa Ignacia y Todos los Santos (et omnes sancti) de Borbón y Borbón-Dos Sicilias |
Infanta Pilar of Spain, Duchess of Badajoz, Dowager Viscountess de la Torre (María del Pilar Alfonsa Juana Victoria Luisa Ignacia y Todos los Santos de Borbón y Borbón-Dos Sicilias or more simply Pilar de Borbón) (born 30 July 1936, in Cannes) is the elder daughter of Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona and Princess María Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, and older sister of King Juan Carlos I. She has also a younger sister, Infanta Margarita of Spain.
Infanta Pilar spent her early years at the royal family's home in exile at Estoril in Portugal.
She was a bridesmaid at the 1962 wedding of her brother Prince Juan Carlos of Spain and Princess Sophia of Greece and Denmark in Athens.
Pilar needed to renounce her rights of succession to the Spanish throne to marry a commoner as stipulated by the Pragmatic Sanction of Charles III on marriages of members of the royal family.
She married Don Luis Gómez-Acebo y Duque de Estrada, Viscount de la Torre, Grandee of Spain (Madrid, 23 December 1934 – Madrid, 9 March 1991) on 5 May 1967 in Lisbon, Portugal. He was the fourth of six children, of Jaime Gómez-Acebo y Modet (ca. 1900 – ?) and wife (m. 1927) Isabel Duque de Estrada y Vereterra, 9th Marchioness de Deleitosa (ca. 1903 – ?). Jaime Gómez-Acebo y Modet was a son of the 3rd Marquess de Cortina and an uncle of Margarita Gómez-Acebo y Cejuela. They had five children:
Pilar de Borbón has been supporting international equestrian sport. She was President of the International Equestrian Federation from 1994 to 2006, succeeded by HRH Princess Haya bint al Hussein.{{FEI Presidents}} She wrote the foreword of the official Spanish translation of the national instruction handbook of the German National Equestrian Federation, Técnicas Avanzadas de Equitación - Manual Oficial de Instrucción de la Federación Ecuestre Alemana.
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