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Prince Antoine of Bourbon Two Sicilies

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Religion
  
Roman Catholic


Name
  
Prince of

Born
  
20 January 1929 (age 95) Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, French Republic (
1929-01-20
)

Issue
  
Prince Francois Princess Maria Carolina Prince Gennaro Princess Maria Annunziata

House
  
House of the Two Sicilies

Father
  
Prince Gabriel of the Two Sicilies

Mother
  
Princess Malgorzata Izabella Czartoryska

Spouse
  
Duchess Elisabeth of Wurttemberg (m. 1958)

Children
  
Prince Gennaro, Prince Francois, Princess Maria Annunziata, Princess Maria Carolina

Parents
  
Prince Gabriel of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Princess Malgorzata Izabella Czartoryska

Grandparents
  
Prince Alfonso, Count of Caserta

Cousins
  
Princess Maria de las Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies

Uncles
  
Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies

Prince Antoine of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (French: Antoine Marie Joseph Alphonse Adam et omnes sancti; 20 January 1929 –) is a member of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies which ruled the defunct Kingdom of the Two Sicilies until 1860. By profession he is an engineer specializing in radar technology.

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Family

Antoine was the only child of Prince Gabriel of the Two Sicilies by his first wife Princess Malgorzata Izabella Czartoryska. Antoine is a male-line great-grandson of King Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies and an elder half-brother of Princes Giovanni and Casimir of Bourbon-Two Sicilies.

Although his children were born in Germany, he later practiced his career in France, maintaining a family home in Seine-et-Marne.

Marriage

Prince Antoine married Duchess Elisabeth of Württemberg civilly on 18 July 1958 and religiously the next day at her parents' palace in Altshausen, Württemberg, Germany. She is the third child and second daughter of Duke Philipp Albrecht (heir of the kings of Wurttemberg, who were deposed in 1918) by his second wife Archduchess Rosa of Austria. Their four children are:

  • Prince François Philipp Maria Joseph Gabriel of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (born 20 June 1960 in Ravensburg). On 2 June 2000 he married at Geneva, Switzerland, Countess Alexandra Maria Drothea Nadine Cecilia of Schönborn-Wiesentheid, member of a mediatised dynasty (born 2 June 1967 in Zürich), daughter of the 1964 first marriage of Count Franz Clemens of Schönborn-Wiesentheid (a banker, born in Breslau in 1939, and resident of New York City since his second divorce, from Princess Felizitas Reuss, in 1992) with Princess Tatjana Konstantinovna Gorchakov (born in New York 1940, residing Pully, Switzerland where she resumed her maiden name following divorce in 1974). Alexandra had been living in Lausanne since her 1995 divorce (marriage annulled religiously 17 January 2000) from Pedro de Mello de Vasconcellos e Souza, son of the Marques de Santa-Iria, whom she had married civilly in Pully in 1989. François's marriage was attended by his immediate family, but by neither of his Bourbon cousins who are rival pretenders to the Sicilian throne, Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria and Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Castro, nor by their heirs. Their children are:
  • Princess Maria Carolina Johanna Rosa Cecilia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (born 18 July 1962 in Friedrichshafen), who married Andreas Baumbach (born 30 April 1963 in Tübingen) on 6 May 1988 in Tübingen.
  • Prince Gennaro Maria Pio Casimir of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (born 27 January 1966 in Ravensburg)
  • Princess Maria Annunziata Urraca Margarita Elisabeth of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (born 18 February 1973 in Friedrichshafen) who married Count Carl Fredrik Creutz (born 11 November 1971) on 2 August 2003 at St. Henry's Cathedral in Helsinki.

    • Titles and styles

  • 20 January 1929 – present: His Royal Highness Prince Antoine of Bourbon-Two Sicilies

    • In addition to the historical princely rank which derives from membership in the formerly reigning House of Bourbon-Sicily, the title of Prince of Bourbon (Spanish: Principe de Borbón) and the style of Royal Highness (Spanish: Alteza Real) were specifically accorded to Antoine's father Gabriel de Borbón, and to all children born of his dynastic marriage, by a Spanish royal decree issued 19 August 1920.

    Honours

  • Bailiff Grand Cross of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George
  • Knight of the Order of Saint Januarius
  • Knight of Honor and Devotion of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta

    • References

    Prince Antoine of Bourbon-Two Sicilies Wikipedia
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