Religion Roman Catholicism | Name Infanta Duchess Siblings Juan Carlos I of Spain | |
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Issue Simoneta Gomez-Acebo y de BorbonJuan Gomez-Acebo y de Borbon, Viscount de la TorreBruno Gomez-Acebo y de BorbonLuis Gomez-Acebo y de BorbonFernando Gomez-Acebo y de Borbon Mother Princess Maria Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies Spouse Luis Gomez-Acebo y de Estrada (m. 1967) Children Simoneta Gomez-Acebo Parents Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona, Princess Maria de las Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies Grandparents Alfonso XIII of Spain Similar People Infanta Margarita - Duchess, Juan Carlos I of Spain, Simoneta Gomez‑Acebo, Princess Maria de las Merce, Infante Juan - Count of | ||
Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz
Infanta Pilar of Spain, Duchess of Badajoz, Dowager Viscountess of la Torre (Spanish: María del Pilar Alfonsa Juana Victoria Luisa Ignacia y Todos los Santos de Borbón y Borbón-Dos Sicilias; born 30 July 1936), sometimes known more simply as Pilar de Borbón is the elder daughter of Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona and Princess María Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, and older sister of King Juan Carlos I. She has also a younger sister, Infanta Margarita of Spain.
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- Infanta Pilar Duchess of Badajoz
- Early life
- Marriage and family
- Equestrian sport
- Financial holdings
- Titles
- National honours
- Foreign honours
- Arms
- References
Early life
Infanta Pilar spent her early years at the royal family's home in exile at Estoril in Portugal.
She was a bridesmaid at the 1962 wedding of her brother Prince Juan Carlos of Spain and Princess Sophia of Greece and Denmark in Athens.
Marriage and family
Pilar needed to renounce her rights of succession to the Spanish throne to marry a commoner as stipulated by the Pragmatic Sanction of Charles III on marriages of members of the royal family; later in 1987 she was made Infanta, ad personam, by her brother King Juan Carlos with the style of Royal Highness.
She married Don Luis Gómez-Acebo y Duque de Estrada, Viscount de la Torre, Grandee of Spain (Madrid, 23 December 1934 – Madrid, 9 March 1991) on 5 May 1967 in Lisbon, Portugal. He was the fourth of six children, of Jaime Gómez-Acebo y Modet (ca. 1900 – ?) and wife (m. 1927) Isabel Duque de Estrada y Vereterra, 9th Marchioness de Deleitosa (ca. 1903 – ?). Jaime Gómez-Acebo y Modet was a son of the 3rd Marquess de Cortina and an uncle of Margarita Gómez-Acebo y Cejuela. They had five children:
Equestrian sport
Pilar de Borbón has been supporting international equestrian sport. She was President of the International Equestrian Federation from 1994 to 2006, succeeded by HRH Princess Haya bint al Hussein.{{FEI Presidents}} She wrote the foreword of the official Spanish translation of the national instruction handbook of the German National Equestrian Federation, Técnicas Avanzadas de Equitación - Manual Oficial de Instrucción de la Federación Ecuestre Alemana.
From 1996 to 2006 she was a member of the International Olympic Committee for Spain, when she became an honorary member, and Member of the Executive Board of the Spanish Olympic Committee.
From 2007 to 2009 she was President of Europa Nostra, the pan-European federation for cultural heritage.
Financial holdings
Mossack Fonseca files document that in August 1974, Pilar de Borbón became president and director of the Panama-registered company Delantera Financiera SA (registered May 1969) with her husband as secretary-treasurer and director. In 1993, London-based Timothy Lloyd who had represented the undisclosed owner of the company said that Pilar de Borbón owned it. After March 1993, the intermediary representing the company was Madrid-based Gómez-Acebo & Pombo Abogados, a law firm founded by Pilar de Borbón's brother-in-law Ignacio Gómez-Acebo. From July 2006 until its dissolution in June 2014 Pilar de Borbón's son Bruno Alejandro Gómez-Acebo Borbón was director and treasurer of the company.
Titles
The Infanta's style and title in full: Her Royal Highness Doña María del Pilar Alfonsa Juana Victoria Luisa Ignacia de Todos los Santos de Borbón y Borbón-Dos Sicilias de Gómez-Acebo, Infanta of Spain, Duchess of Badajoz, Dowager Viscountess of la Torre.
National honours
Foreign honours
Arms
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