Princess Maria da Glória | |
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prev. Crown Princess of Yugolavia Duchess of Segorbe |
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Born |
Petrópolis, Brazil |
13 December 1946
Spouse |
Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia (m. 1972; div. 1985) Ignacio de Medina y Fernández de Córdoba, 19th Duke of Segorbe (m. 1985) |
Issue |
Peter, Hereditary Prince of Yugoslavia Prince Philip of Yugoslavia Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia Sol de Medina y Orleáns-Braganza, 54th Countess of Ampurias Luna de Medina y Orléans-Braganza, 17th Countess of Ricla |
House | Orléans-Braganza |
Father | Prince Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza |
Mother | Princess Maria de la Esperanza of Bourbon-Two Sicilies |
Brazilian Imperial Family (Petrópolis branch) |
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Princess Dona Maria da Glória Henriqueta Dolores Lúcia Miguela Rafaela Gabriela Gonzaga of Orléans-Braganza, Duchess of Segorbe (Portuguese: Dona Maria da Glória Henriqueta Dolores Lúcia Miguela Rafaela Gabriela Gonzaga de Orléans e Bragança e Bourbon, princesa de Orléans e Bragança e duquesa de Segorbe; Serbian: Марија да Глорија од Орлеана и Браганце; born 13 December 1946) is a descendant of the Brazilian Imperial Family and the wife of the Duke of Segorbe. She is also the former wife of Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia.
Born at Petrópolis, Brazil, she is the daughter of Prince Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza (1913–2007) and Princess Maria de la Esperanza of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1914–2005). She is the first cousin of King Juan Carlos I of Spain, whose mother was the duchess's mother's sister.
On 1 July 1972, she married Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia at Villamanrique de la Condesa, near Seville, Spain. They divorced on 19 February 1985. She has three sons from her first marriage:
On 24 October 1985, she was married Ignacio de Medina y Fernández de Córdoba, 19th Duke of Segorbe, son of Victoria Eugenia Fernández de Córdoba, 18th Duchess of Medinaceli at Seville. With him, she has two daughters:
Dynastically, the Duchess of Segorbe is a great-great-granddaughter of Emperor Pedro II of Brazil. Patrilineally, she is a great-great-great-granddaughter of Louis Philippe, King of the French. She is also a matrilineal 9th-generation descendant of Marie Leszczyńska, Queen consort of Louis XV of France, through an almost-three-century-long unbroken line of eight Bourbon princesses, each of whom married into their own dynasty, as follows: Marie Leszczyńska, Queen of France → Louise Élisabeth of France, Duchess of Parma → Maria Luisa of Parma, Queen of Spain → Maria Isabella of Spain, Queen of the Two Sicilies → Maria Cristina of the Two Sicilies, Queen Regent of Spain → Infanta Luisa Fernanda of Spain, Duchess of Montpensier → Princess Marie Isabelle d'Orléans, Infanta of Spain, Countess of Paris → Princess Louise d'Orléans, Princess of the Two Sicilies → Princess Maria de la Esperanza of the Two Sicilies, Princess of Orléans-Braganza → Princess Maria da Glória of Orléans-Braganza, sometime Crown Princess of Yugoslavia, Duchess of Segorbe.