Infante Carlos | |||||
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Duke of Calabria (more) | |||||
Head of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (disputed) | |||||
Pretence | 3 February 1964 – 5 October 2015 | ||||
Predecessor | Infante Alfonso | ||||
Successor | Prince Pedro | ||||
Born |
Lausanne, Switzerland |
16 January 1938||||
Died | 5 October 2015 Retuerta del Bullaque, Spain |
(aged 77)||||
Burial | El Escorial, Spain | ||||
Spouse | Princess Anne de Orléans of France | ||||
Issue | Princess Cristina Archduches María, Archduchess Simeon of Austria Prince Pedro, Duke of Calabria Princess Inés Princess Victoria |
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House | Bourbon-Two Sicilies | ||||
Father | Infante Alfonso, Duke of Calabria | ||||
Mother | Princess Alicia of Bourbon-Parma | ||||
Religion | Roman Catholic |
Full name | |
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Spanish: Carlos María Alfonso Marcelo |
Royal styles of Infante Carlos of Spain, Duke of Calabria |
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Reference style | His Royal Highness |
Spoken style | Your Royal Highness |
Alternative style | Sir |
Don Carlos Maria Alfonso Marcelo de Borbón-Dos Sicilias y de Borbón-Parma, Infante of Spain, Duke of Calabria (16 January 1938 – 5 October 2015) was, at his death, the last infante of Spain during the reigns of his cousins King Juan Carlos I and King Felipe VI.
Additionally, he was also one of two claimants to the headship of the dynasty which ruled the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies prior to its incorporation into the Kingdom of Italy in 1861, in which capacity he was also the Grand Master of one of the three branches of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George.
The second of three children and the only son of Infante Alfonso de Borbón-Dos Sicilias y de Borbón (1901–1964) and Princess Alicia of Bourbon-Parma (1917–2017), he was born during his parents' exile from republican Spain in Lausanne, Switzerland. As the elder son of Prince Carlo of Bourbon-Two Sicilies by Mercedes, Princess of Asturias (1880-1904), the eldest child of Alfonso XII of Spain, Alfonso had been heir presumptive to the Spanish throne between the death in childbirth of his mother and the birth in May 1907 of a son to his mother's brother, King Alfonso XIII. If Mateu Morral’s attempt to assassinate King Alfonso XIII of Spain had succeeded, Infante Alfonso (Infante Carlos’s father) would have become at that moment the King of Spain.