Princess Maria da Glória, Duchess of Segorbe

} |- | |} Princess Dona Maria da Glória Henriqueta Dolores of Orléans-Braganza, Duchess of Segorbe (; born 13 December 1946) is a descendant 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. Maria da Glória graduated in Architecture from Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, and has worked as plastic artist and with restoration of historic buildings and antiques.

Life and marriages

Born at Petrópolis, Brazil, she is the daughter of Prince Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza (1913–2007) and Princess Maria de la Esperanza of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1914–2005). She is the first cousin of King Juan Carlos I of Spain, whose mother was the Duchess's mother's sister.

On 1 July 1972, she married first at Villamanrique de la Condesa, near Seville, 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 (born 1980)
• Prince Philip of Yugoslavia (born 1982)
• Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia (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. With him, she has two daughters:

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

Ancestry

The Duchess of Sergorbe is a matrilineal 9th-generation descendant of Marie Leszczyńska, Queen consort of France, through an almost-three-century-long unbroken line of eight Bourbon princesses who all married into their own house.

Zofia Czarnkowska → Catherine Opalińska, Queen of Poland → Marie Leszczyńska, Queen of France → Louise Élisabeth of France, Duchess of Parma → Maria Luisa of Parma, Queen of Spain → Maria Isabella of Spain, Queen of the Two Sicilies → Maria Cristina of the Two Sicilies, Queen of Spain → Infanta Luisa Fernanda of Spain, Duchess of Montpensier → 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 Glória 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 and a 3rd great-granddaughter of King Francis I of the Two Sicilies. Through her mother she is a 2nd great-granddaughter of King Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies, 3rd great-granddaughter of King Ferdinand VII of Spain, and 4th great-granddaughter of Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor. 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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