Princess Maria da Glória Henriqueta Dolores of Orléans-Braganza, Duchess of Segorbe (Dona Maria da Glória de Orléans-Bragança e Borbon; born 13 December 1946) is a distant member 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

Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia

Alexander II Karadjordjevic, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia , is the former crown prince of the former Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the head of the House of Karadjordjevic. Alexander is the only child of former King Peter II of Yugoslavia and Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark...

.

Life and marriages

Born at Petrópolis, Brazil, she is the daughter of Prince Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza

Prince Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza

Prince Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza was one of two claimants to the Brazilian throne and head of the Petrópolis branch of the Brazilian Imperial House.-Biography:Prince Pedro Gastão was the son of Prince Pedro de Alcântara...

 (1913–2007) and Princess Maria de la Esperanza of Bourbon-Two Sicilies

Princess Maria de la Esperanza of Bourbon-Two Sicilies

Princess Maria de la Esperanza Amalia Raniera Maria Rosario Luisa Gonzaga of Bourbon-Two Sicilies was the youngest daughter of Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies and his wife Princess Louise of Orléans...

 (1914–2005). She is the first cousin of King Juan Carlos I of Spain

Juan Carlos I of Spain

Juan Carlos I |Italy]]) is the reigning King of Spain.On 22 November 1975, two days after the death of General Francisco Franco, Juan Carlos was designated king according to the law of succession promulgated by Franco. Spain had no monarch for 38 years in 1969 when Franco named Juan Carlos as the...

, whose mother was the Duchess's mother's sister.

On 1 July 1972, she married first at Villamanrique de la Condesa

Villamanrique de la Condesa

Villamanrique de la Condesa is a city located in the province of Seville, Spain.-Twin towns: Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, France...

, near Seville

Seville

Seville is the artistic, historic, cultural, and financial capital of southern Spain. It is the capital of the autonomous community of Andalusia and of the province of Seville. It is situated on the plain of the River Guadalquivir, with an average elevation of above sea level...

, Spain, Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia. They divorced on 19 February 1985. She has three sons from her first marriage:

• Peter, Hereditary Prince of Yugoslavia
  Peter, Hereditary Prince of Yugoslavia
  -References:...
  
   (born 1980)
• Prince Philip of Yugoslavia
  Prince Philip of Yugoslavia
  Prince Philip of Yugoslavia, also known as Filip Karađorđević , is a member of the House of Karađorđević....
  
   (born 1982)
• Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia
  Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia (b. 1982)
  Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia, also named Alexandar Karađorđević , is a member of the House of Karađorđević....
  
   (born 1982)

On 24 October 1985, she married secondly at Seville, Spain, Ignacio de Medina y Fernández de Córdoba, 19th Duke of Segorbe, son of Victoria Eugenia Fernández de Córdoba, 18th Duchess of Medinaceli

Victoria Eugenia Fernández de Córdoba, 18th Duchess of Medinaceli

Doña Victoria Eugenia Fernández de Córdoba y Fernández de Henestrosa, 18th Duchess of Medinaceli, Grandee of Spain, , was born in Madrid, on April 16, 1917...

. With him, she has two daughters:

• Sol de Medina Orléans-Braganza y Fernández de Córdoba, 54th Countess of Ampurias (born 1986), heiress apparent to the Dukedom of Segorbe
• Luna de Medina Orléans-Braganza y Fernández de Córdoba, 17th Countess of Ricla (born 1988)

Ancestry

The Duchess of Sergorbe is a matrilineal 9th-generation descendant of Marie Leszczyńska, Queen consort

Queen consort

A queen consort is the wife of a reigning king. A queen consort usually shares her husband's rank and holds the feminine equivalent of the king's monarchical titles. Historically, queens consort do not share the king regnant's political and military powers. Most queens in history were queens consort...

 of France, through an almost-three-century-long unbroken line of eight Bourbon

House of Bourbon

The House of Bourbon is a European royal house, a branch of the Capetian dynasty . Bourbon kings first ruled Navarre and France in the 16th century. By the 18th century, members of the Bourbon dynasty also held thrones in Spain, Naples, Sicily, and Parma...

 princesses who all married into their own house.

Zofia Czarnkowska → Catherine Opalińska, Queen of Poland → Marie Leszczyńska, Queen of France → Louise Élisabeth of France

Princess Louise Élisabeth of France

Louise Élisabeth de France was the eldest daughter of King Louis XV of France and his Queen consort, Maria Leszczyńska, and the elder twin sister of Anne Henriette de France. As the daughter of the king, she was a Daughter of France...

, Duchess of Parma → Maria Luisa of Parma

Maria Luisa of Parma

Maria Luisa of Parma was Queen consort of Spain from 1788 to 1808 as the wife of King Charles IV of Spain. She was the youngest daughter of Duke Philip of Parma and his wife, Louise-Élisabeth of France, the eldest daughter of King Louis XV.She was christened Luisa Maria Teresa Ana, but was known...

, Queen of Spain → Maria Isabella of Spain

Maria Isabella of Spain

María Isabella of Spain was an Infanta of Spain and the Queen of the Two Sicilies. She was the second wife of Francis I and the youngest surviving daughter of the Spanish king Charles IV and his consort Maria Luisa of Parma...

, Queen of the Two Sicilies → Maria Cristina of the Two Sicilies

Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies

Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies was Queen consort of Spain and Regent of Spain .-Early years and first marriage:...

, Queen of Spain → Infanta Luisa Fernanda of Spain, Duchess of Montpensier

Infanta Luisa Fernanda, Duchess of Montpensier

Infanta María Luisa Fernanda of Spain was Infanta of Spain and Duchess of Montpensier. She was the youngest daughter of king Ferdinand VII of Spain and his fourth wife Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies, the queen-regent, who was also his niece.-Biography:-Heiress-presumptive:When her elder...

 → Princess Marie Isabelle d'Orléans, 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 Gloria of Orléans-Braganza, Duchess of Segorbe.

She is also a descendant of many kings and emperors. Through her father she is a 2nd great-granddaughter of Emperor Pedro II of Brazil

Pedro II of Brazil

Dom Pedro II , nicknamed "the Magnanimous", was the second and last ruler of the Empire of Brazil, reigning for over 58 years. Born in Rio de Janeiro, he was the seventh child of Emperor Dom Pedro I of Brazil and Empress Dona Maria Leopoldina and thus a member of the Brazilian branch of...

 and a 3rd great-granddaughter of King Francis I of the Two Sicilies

Francis I of the Two Sicilies

-Biography:Francis was born in Naples, the son of Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies and his wife Archduchess Maria Carolina of Austria. He was also the nephew of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI the last King and Queen of France before the first French Republic....

. Through her mother she is a 2nd great-granddaughter of King Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies

Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies

Ferdinand II was King of the Two Sicilies from 1830 until his death.-Family:Ferdinand was born in Palermo, the son of King Francis I of the Two Sicilies and his wife and first cousin Maria Isabella of Spain.His paternal grandparents were King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies and Queen Marie...

, 3rd great-granddaughter of King Ferdinand VII of Spain, and 4th great-granddaughter of Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor

Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor

Leopold II , born Peter Leopold Joseph Anton Joachim Pius Gotthard, was Holy Roman Emperor and King of Hungary and Bohemia from 1790 to 1792, Archduke of Austria and Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1765 to 1790. He was a son of Emperor Francis I and his wife, Empress Maria Theresa...

. Via her father, as well her mother, she is through multiple lines a 3rd great-granddaughter of King Louis Philippe I of the French.

External links

• Dona Maria da Glória de Orléans-Bragança e Borbon – website thePeerage.com
• Maria da Gloria de Orleáns y Bragança – website of the Ducal House of Medinaceli Foundation (Spanish)

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