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Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria

Infante Carlos
Duke of Calabria (more)
Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria.jpg
Head of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (disputed)
Pretence 3 February 1964 – 5 October 2015
Predecessor Infante Alfonso
Successor Prince Pedro
Born (1938-01-16)16 January 1938
Lausanne, Switzerland
Died 5 October 2015(2015-10-05) (aged 77)
Retuerta del Bullaque, Spain
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
Full name
Spanish: Carlos María Alfonso Marcelo
House Bourbon-Two Sicilies
Father Infante Alfonso, Duke of Calabria
Mother Princess Alicia of Bourbon-Parma
Religion Roman Catholic
Full name
Spanish: Carlos María Alfonso Marcelo
Royal styles of
Infante Carlos of Spain,
Duke of Calabria
Coat of arms of Carlos Maria of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (External Ornaments as Infante of Spain).svg
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.


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