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Carlist pretenders to the Spanish throne and their wives
umigon:
With this thread I would like to present to you the "Queens" of the Carlist dynasty.
Carlist Queens
1. María Francisca of Braganza (1800-1834), daughter of King Joao VI of Portugal and infanta Carlota Joaquina of Spain. She married Carlos V in 1816.
2. María Teresa de Braganza (1793-1874), sister of the previous queen, she married her brother-in-law Carlos V in 1838.
3. María Carolina de Borbón (1820-1861), daughter of King Francesco of the Two Sicilies and Infanta María Isabel of Spain. She married Carlos VI in 1850.
4. Beatriz de Habsburgo-Lorena (1824-1906), daughter of Francis IV of Modena and Maria Beatrice of Savoy, she married Juan III in 1847.
5. Margarita de Borbón (1847-1893), daughter of Carlo III of Parma and Louise Marie of France, she married Carlos VII in 1867.
6. María Berta de Rohan (1860-1945), daughter of Arthur de Rohan and Maria Gabriella von Waldstein, she married Carlos VII in 1894.
7. María de las Nieves de Braganza (1852-1941), daughter of former King Miguel of Portugal and Adelheid von Löwenstein, she married Alfonso Carlos I in 1871.
8. Magdalena de Borbón-Busset (1898-1984), daughter of Georges de Bourbon-Busset and Marie Joséphine Jeanne de Kerret de Quillien, she married future Javier I in 1927.
9. Irene de Holanda (1939), daughter of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands and Bernard zur Lippe-Biesterfeld. She married future King Carlos Hugo in 1964. Although they were divorced in 1981, she is still considered by the purist carlists as their Queen.
trentk80:
--- Quote ---3. María Carolina de Borbón (1820-1861), daughter of King Francesco of the Two Sicilies and Infanta María Isabel of Spain. She married Carlos VI in 1850.
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Do you have more information about her, Umigon? I think it's funny that she married the Carlist pretender, while her elder sister Maria Cristina was the regent of Spain and her niece Isabella II was the rightful sovereign.
umigon:
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Do you have more information about her, Umigon? I think it's funny that she married the Carlist pretender, while her elder sister Maria Cristina was the regent of Spain and her niece Isabella II was the rightful sovereign.
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Well, much more funny is that the eldest of the sisters, Luisa Carlota, was married to infante Francisco de Paula, who also supported Isabel II's cause and another of their sisters, María Amelia, was married to infante Sebastián Gabriel, stepson of Carlos V and also a supporter of Isabel II's cause!
Yes, María Carolina was a sweet and delicate woman who really loved her husband. Carlos VI, who had been a womanizer in his youth, found in María Carolina the calm he needed. They were quite a happy couple, but sadly, their marriage proved barren. In January 1861 they visited infante Fernando, Carlos VI's youngest brother, who was sick with smallpox. The carlist royal couple contracted the illness and both of them died with a day of difference and soon after infante Fernando's death. Quite a tragic story!
cimbrio:
I've read that there is some debate as to who is the legal Carlist claimant, since the true male line died out in 1936. The main and more known branch is those descended from Roberto I of Parma, whose sister married Carlos, Duque de Madrid. However, another branch, the Habsburg-Lorraine (Tuscanny branch) are also claimants to the rights as legal Carlist claimants. The claim comes through the marriage of Carlos and Margherita's eldest daughter, who was the sister of Jaime I, who died in 1931 and was single and evidently childless. He was "succeeded" by his ageing uncle, who died a few years later. Then the debate starts. The son of Margherita's brother's son, Francisco Javier (Javier I) or Carlos and Marguerita's daughter's son Anton (his eldest brother married morganatically and then divorced). Can anyone say anythign about these pretenders, and moreover, their "queens"?
PS-That Archduke Anton was married to Princess Ileana of Romania. Just a note for those who couldn't figure out who the heck I'm talking about.
cimbrio:
This is what Wikipedia offers for the Late Pretenders:
After Alfonso Carlos' death, dynastic seniority — after the Salic law — fell upon Alfonso XIII, former constitutional King of Spain and then in exile at Rome, therefore, at least in theory, ending the family split. But according to the theory of legitimacy in exercise, many Carlists thought that Alfonso XIII and his heir Juan de Borbón were radically disqualified to head the "Cause". They cited the doubts over Alfonso XII's paternity to dismiss him as illegitimate and his descendants as thus ineligible for the throne.
Alfonso Carlos had named in 1936 Prince Francis Xavier of Borbón-Parma as regent, as he was the nearest Bourbon who shared the Carlist ideals. During the Second World War, Prince Xavier returned to the Belgian army, where he had served during World War I. He was demobilized and joined the French maquis. He was taken prisoner by the Nazis and sent to Natzweiler and Dachau, where the American troops liberated him in 1945.
In 1952 he laid openly his claims to the Throne, which he ceded in 1975 to his eldest son Carlos-Hugo, married to Princess Irene of the Netherlands. After the definitive break with Franco (1965–1967), under the latter's direction, his group switched to a leftist Titoist, autogestionary socialist movement. His brother, Sixto of Borbon-Parma, has headed a far right split.
In 1980, Carlos-Hugo left the political arena, but did not abdicate his rights.
In 1958, a sizable group of Carlists, recognized Juan de Borbón as his Head.
From 1943 to 1953, the Archduke Carlos-Pio of Habsburg-Lorraine-Tuscany, claimed also the Head of the House.
Beside them, there were other factions, which recognized neither of the above. Some were tightly integrated in the Movimiento Nacional, some were not.
Most of this events happened under Franco's regime, which skillfully played one group against the other, and all of them against Don Juan.
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