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Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou

Louis Alphonse
Duke of Anjou (disputed)
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Louis Alphonse of Bourbon, Duke of Anjou
Legitimist pretender to the French throne
as Louis XX
Pretendence 30 January 1989 – present
Predecessor Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz
Heir apparent Prince Louis, Duke of Burgundy
Born (1974-04-25) 25 April 1974 (age 42)
Madrid, Spain
Spouse María Margarita Vargas Santaella (m. 2004)
Issue Princess Eugénie
Prince Louis, Duke of Burgundy
Prince Alphonse, Duke of Berry
Full name
Luis Alfonso Jaime Marcelino Manuel Víctor María de Borbón y Martínez-Bordiú
House Bourbon
Father Alfonso de Borbón-Segovia, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz
Mother María del Carmen Martínez-Bordiú y Franco
Religion Catholic Church
Full name
Luis Alfonso Jaime Marcelino Manuel Víctor María de Borbón y Martínez-Bordiú

Louis Alphonse of Bourbon, Duke of Anjou (Spanish: Luis Alfonso Jaime Marcelino Manuel Víctor María de Borbón-Segovia y Martínez-Bordiú, French: Louis Alphonse Gonzalve Victor Emmanuel Marc de Bourbon; born 25 April 1974, Madrid) is a member of the Royal House of Bourbon, and one of the current pretenders to the defunct French throne as Louis XX.

As the senior male heir of Hugh Capet by traditional male-line primogeniture, he is often recognised as the "Head of the House of Bourbon", and by Legitimist royalists as the rightful claimant to the French crown, being the senior agnatic descendant of King Louis XIV of France (ruled 1643–1715) through his grandson King Philip V of Spain.

Louis Alphonse is patrilineally the senior great-grandson of King Alfonso XIII of Spain, but because that descent is through his grandfather's morganatic marriage, the crown of Spain descended to his second cousin, King Felipe VI of Spain. Through his mother, he is also a great-grandson of Spain's former dictator, General Francisco Franco and a great-great-great grandson of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.

Louis Alphonse was born in Madrid, the second son of Alfonso de Borbón, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz, and of his wife Doña María del Carmen Martínez-Bordiú y Franco, granddaughter of Francisco Franco. Alfonso was at that time the dauphin (using "Duke of Bourbon" as title of pretence) according to those who supported the claim of his father, Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia to the French throne. On 20 March 1975, the Infante Jaime ("Henri VI" by Legitimist reckoning) died. Alfonso then asserted his claim to be both Head of the House of Bourbon and Legitimist claimant to the throne of France. As such, he took the title "Duke of Anjou", and on 19 September 1981 gave Louis Alphonse the title Duke of Touraine.


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