Princess Maria Pia | |||||
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Princess Maria Pia in 1963
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Born |
Naples, Italy |
24 September 1934 ||||
Spouse |
Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia (m. 1955; div. 1967) Prince Michel of Bourbon-Parma (m. 2003) |
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Issue |
Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia Prince Michael of Yugoslavia Prince Sergius of Yugoslavia Princess Helen of Yugoslavia |
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House | Savoy | ||||
Father | Umberto II of Italy | ||||
Mother | Princess Marie-José of Belgium |
Full name | |
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Maria Pia Elena Elisabetta Margherita Milena Mafalda Ludovica Tecla Gennara |
Styles of Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Parma |
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Reference style | Her Royal Highness |
Spoken style | Your Royal Highness |
Alternative style | Ma'am |
Italian royal family |
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HRH The Prince of Naples
HRH Princess Maria Pia Extended family
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HRH The Prince of Naples
HRH The Princess of Naples
HRH Princess Maria Pia
HRH Princess Maria Gabriella
HRH Princess Maria Beatrice
HI&RH The Dowager Archduchess of Austria-Este
HRH Princess Maria Cristina
HRH The Duke of Aosta
HRH The Duchess of Aosta
Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Parma (née Princess Maria Pia of Savoy; born 24 September 1934) is the eldest daughter of Umberto II of Italy and Marie-José of Belgium. She is the older sister of Princess Maria Gabriella of Savoy, Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, and Princess Maria Beatrice of Savoy. She is the cousin of former King Albert II of Belgium.
Maria Pia Elena Elisabetta Margherita Milena Mafalda Ludovica Tecla Gennara di Savoia was the first-born child of the Prince and Princess of Piedmont, born in Naples, Italy in 1934. Her parents, married since 1930, were unhappy together, as her mother confessed in an interview many years later (On n'a jamais été heureux, "We were never happy"), and separated after the Italian monarchy was abolished by plebiscite on 2 June 1946. Exiled, the family gathered briefly in Portugal, and she and her three younger siblings soon went with their mother to Switzerland while their father remained in Portugal. Being devout Catholics, her parents never divorced.