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Princess Anne, Duchess of Calabria

Princess Anne d'Orléans
Dowager Duchess of Calabria
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Princess Anne and her husband Infante Carlos at a Mass of the Two Sicilian Royal Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George in Barcelona
Born (1938-12-04) 4 December 1938 (age 78)
Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, Belgium
Spouse Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria
Issue Princess Cristina
Archduchess Maria of Austria
Prince Pedro, Duke of Calabria
Princess Inés
Princess Victoria
Full name
French: Anne Marguerite Brigitte Marie
House Orléans
Father Prince Henri, Count of Paris
Mother Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza
Religion Roman Catholicism
Full name
French: Anne Marguerite Brigitte Marie
Royal styles of
Princess Anne, Dowager Duchess of Calabria
Reference style Her Royal Highness
Spoken style Your Royal Highness
Alternative style Ma'am

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

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

Prince Carlos was the son of Infante Alfonso of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duke of Calabria (1901–1964) and Princess Alice of Bourbon-Parma (1917-2017). 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 Princess Anne was a bridesmaid.

The Duke and Duchess of Calabria lived in Spain.

Anne and Carlos had five children:


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