(1934-09-24) 24 September 1934 (age 84) Naples, Kingdom of Italy
Spouse
Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia (m. 1955; div. 1967)
Prince Michel of Bourbon-Parma (m. 2003; died 2018)
Issue
Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia Prince Michael of Yugoslavia Prince Sergius of Yugoslavia Princess Helen of Yugoslavia
Full name
Maria Pia Elena Elisabetta Margherita Milena Mafalda Ludovica Tecla Gennara
House
Savoy
Father
Umberto II of Italy
Mother
Marie José of Belgium
Styles of Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Parma
Reference style
Her Royal Highness
Spoken style
Your Royal Highness
Italian royal family
HRH The Prince of Naples HRH The Princess of Naples
HRH The Prince of Venice HRH The Princess of Venice
HRH Princess Vittoria
HRH Princess Luisa
HRH Princess Maria Pia HRH Princess Maria Gabriella HRH Princess Maria Beatrice
Extended family
HI&RH The Dowager Archduchess of Austria-Este HRH Princess Maria Cristina
HRH The Duke of Aosta HRH The Duchess of Aosta
HRH The Duke of Apulia HRH The Duchess of Apulia
HRH Prince Umberto
HRH Prince Amedeo
HRH Princess Isabella
HRH Princess Bianca
HRH Princess Mafalda
HRH Princess Maria Isabella
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Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Parma (née Princess Maria Pia of Savoy; born 24 September 1934) is the eldest daughter of Umberto II of Italy and Marie-José of Belgium. She is the older sister of Princess Maria Gabriella of Savoy, Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, and Princess Maria Beatrice of Savoy.
Contents
1Biography
2Marriages and issue
3Notable published works
4Titles, styles and honours
4.1Honours
4.1.1Foreign honours
5Ancestry
6References
7External links
Biography
Maria Pia Elena Elisabetta Margherita Milena Mafalda Ludovica Tecla Gennara di Savoia was the first-born child of the Prince and Princess of Piedmont, born in Naples, Italy in 1934. Her parents, married since 1930, were unhappy together, as her mother confessed in an interview many years later (On n'a jamais été heureux, "We were never happy"), and separated after the Italian monarchy was abolished by plebiscite on 2 June 1946. Exiled, the family gathered briefly in Portugal, and she and her three younger siblings soon went with their mother to Switzerland while their father remained in the Portuguese Riviera. Being devout Catholics, her parents never divorced.
She lives in Neuilly-sur-Seine, near Paris, and Palm Beach, Florida.[1]
Marriages and issue
With her first husband Alexander of Yugoslavia in 1958
On the royal cruise of the yacht, Agamemnon, hosted by Queen Frederica of Greece on 22 August 1954, she met and later married Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia (1924–2016), son of Prince Paul of Yugoslavia and Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark. The two were married on 12 February 1955 at Cascais in Portugal, where the Maria Pia's father was living in exile.
Not long after their wedding, Maria Pia gave birth to the couple's set of fraternal twin sons. Another set of twins was born to Maria Pia during the marriage five years later, this time a girl and boy:
Prince Dimitri Umberto Anton Peter Maria of Yugoslavia (born 1958)
Prince Michael Nicolas Paul George Maria of Yugoslavia (born 1958)
Prince Sergius "Serge" Wladimir Emanuel Maria of Yugoslavia (born 1963); married Sophia de Toledo on 6 November 1985, whom he divorced in 1986. He was remarried to Eleonora Rajneri on 18 September 2004. Since 2018 With Christiane Galeotti he has a child born in Monaco:
Umberto Emmanuel Dimitri of Yugoslavia (born 2018)
Princess Helene Olga Lydia Tamara Maria of Yugoslavia (born 1963); married Thierry Alexandre Gaubert.[2] The couple divorced and she remarried to Stanislas Fougeron.
Milena Maria Pia Angelique Armaule Gaubert (born 1988)
Nastasia Marie José Tania Vanessa Isabelle Gaubert (born 1991)p
Leopold Umberto Armand Michel Gaubert (born 1997)
The couple were divorced in 1967.
In 2003, Maria Pia was remarried to Prince Michel of Bourbon-Parma (1926–2018), son of Prince René of Bourbon-Parma and Princess Margaret of Denmark, whose marriage with Princess Yolande de Broglie-Revel had been annulled and with whom he has five dynastic children, also being the father of a child born out of wedlock in 1977, Amélie de Bourbon de Parme (wed in 2009 to Igor Bogdanoff).[3] Through him she was a sister-in-law of Queen Anne of Romania. Maria Pia's ex-husband, Prince Alexander was also remarried, to Princess Barbara of Liechtenstein, a cousin of that principality's monarch, and they had one son, Prince Dušan Paul.
Notable published works
La mia vita, i miei ricordi (Mondadori Electa, 2010).
Titles, styles and honours
24 September 1934 – 2 June 1946: Her Royal Highness Princess Maria Pia of Italy, Princess of Savoy
2 June 1946 – 12 February 1955: Her Royal Highness Princess Maria Pia of Savoy
12 February 1955 – 1967: Her Royal Highness Princess Maria Pia of Yugoslavia, Princess of Savoy
1967 – 2003: Her Royal Highness Princess Maria Pia of Savoy
2003 – present: Her Royal Highness Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Parma, Princess of Savoy
Honours
House of Savoy: Knight Grand Cordon of the Royal Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus[4][5][6][7]
Foreign honours
France : Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres[8]
Sovereign Military Order of Malta: Knight Grand Cross of Obedience of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, 1st Class
Place in Moyen-Ogooué, Gabon Lambaréné Street in Lambaréné Lambaréné Location in Gabon Coordinates: 0°41′18″S 10°13′55″E / 0.68833°S 10.23194°E / -0.68833; 10.23194 Coordinates: 0°41′18″S 10°13′55″E / 0.68833°S 10.23194°E / -0.68833; 10.23194 Country Gabon Province Moyen-Ogooué Population (2013 census) • Total 38,775 Lambaréné is a town and the capital of Moyen-Ogooué in Gabon. With a population of 38,775 as of 2013, it is located 75 kilometres south of the equator. Lambaréné is based in the Central African Rainforest at the river Ogooué. This river divides the city into 3 districts: Rive Gauche, Ile Lambaréné and Rive Droite. The Albert Schweitzer Hospital and the districts Adouma and Abongo are located on Rive Droite. The districts Atongowanga, Sahoty, Dakar, Grand Village, Château, Lalala and Bordamur build the Ile Lambaréné. The majority of the people in Lambaréné live in the district Isaac located on Rive Gauche. This distr
Plato, the Greek philosopher, is universally known by a single name. A mononymous person is an individual who is known and addressed by a single name, or mononym. [a] [b] In some cases, that name has been selected by the individual, who may have originally been given a polynym ("multiple name"). In other cases, it has been determined by the custom of the country [c] or by some interested segment. In the case of historical figures, it may be the only one of the individual's names that has survived and is still known today. Contents 1 Antiquity 2 Medieval uses 2.1 Europe 2.2 The Americas 3 Post-medieval uses 3.1 France 3.2 Other Europe 3.3 North America 4 Royalty 5 Modern times 5.1 Mononym-normal 5.2 Asia 5.3 The West 6 Gallery 7 See also 8 Notes 9 References 10 Bibliography 11 External links Antiquity Narmer The structure of persons' names has varied across ti
France : Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres[8]
Sovereign Military Order of Malta: Knight Grand Cross of Obedience of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, 1st Class
