Princess Marie Louise of Bulgaria
| Princess Marie Louise | |
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| Princess of Bulgaria Princess of Koháry |
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Princess Marie Louise in Bulgarian costume.
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| Born |
13 January 1933 Sofia, Bulgaria |
| Spouse |
Prince Karl of Leiningen (m. 1957; div. 1968) Bronislaw Chrobok (m. 1969) |
| Issue |
Prince Boris Prince Hermann Friedrich Princess Alexandra Prince Pawel |
| House | Saxe-Coburg and Gotha |
| Father | Boris III of Bulgaria |
| Mother | Giovanna of Italy |
| Religion | Bulgarian Orthodoxy |
Princess Maria Louise of Bulgaria (Bulgarian: Княгиня Мария Луиза Българска; born 13 January 1933, Sofia) is the daughter of Tsar Boris III and Tsaritsa Ioanna and the older sister of Simeon II of Bulgaria. Her baptism in the Bulgarian Orthodox Church caused controversy at the time.
After the abolition of the monarchy in 1946, Princess Maria Louise left the country with her mother and brother. They first lived in Egypt and then moved to Spain.
She married Prince Karl of Leiningen in a civil ceremony on 14 February 1957 in Amorbach and in a religious ceremony on 20 February 1957 in Cannes. The couple had two sons:
Karl and Maria Luisa divorced on 4 December 1968.
On 16 November 1969, she married Bronislaw Tomasz Andrzej Chrobok (27 August 1933 Katowice), in Toronto, Canada. They currently live in New Jersey, and have a daughter and a son:
The title "Princess of Koháry" was nominally ceded to Princess Maria-Louise and the children of her second marriage by her brother, the former Simeon II, King of Bulgaria, in 2012.
Princess Maria-Louise is a member of the Board of Trustees of the American University in Bulgaria.
On May 13, 2012, at the 18th commencement ceremony, Princess Maria-Louise received an honorary doctoral degree in Humane Letters from the American University in Bulgaria
In 2001, she visited and toured the church of St John of Rila the Wonderworker in Chicago's Portage Park community area.
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