Princess Anne d'Orléans | |||||
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Dowager Duchess of Calabria | |||||
Princess Anne and her husband Infante Carlos at a Mass of the Two Sicilian Royal Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George in Barcelona
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Born |
Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, Belgium |
4 December 1938 ||||
Spouse | Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria | ||||
Issue | Princess Cristina Archduchess Maria of Austria Prince Pedro, Duke of Calabria Princess Inés Princess Victoria |
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House | Orléans | ||||
Father | Prince Henri, Count of Paris | ||||
Mother | Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza | ||||
Religion | Roman Catholicism |
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French: Anne Marguerite Brigitte Marie |
Royal styles of Princess Anne, Dowager Duchess of Calabria |
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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: