Princess Maria da Gloria, Duchess of Segorbe

Princess Maria da Gloria Henriqueta Dolores of Orléans-Braganza (b. December 13 1946 in Petrópolis, Brazil) is the former wife of Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia and is now the Duchess of Segorbe.

She is the daughter of Prince Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza and Princess Maria de la Esperanza of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. She is the first cousin of King Juan Carlos I of Spain, whose mother was the Duchess's mother's sister.

Maria and Alexander had three sons, Hereditary Prince Peter, Prince Philip and Prince Alexander.

She is now married to Ignacio de Medina y Fernández de Córdoba, Duke of Segorbe and they have two daughters Sol and Luna

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

Matriline

Maria 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 of Orléans, Countess of Paris → Princess Louise Francoise of Orléans, Princess of the Two Sicilies → Princess Maria de la Esperanza of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Princess of Orléans-Braganza → Princess Maria da Gloria of Orléans-Braganza, Duchess of Segorbe.

Ancestry

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