Prince Philip of Bourbon-Two Sicilies

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Prince Philip of Bourbon-Two Sicilies[1] (Filippo Maria Alfonso Antonio Ferdinando Francesco di Paola Lodovico Enrico Alberto Taddeo Francesco Saverio Uberto; 10 December 1885 – 9 March 1949) was a member of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies and a Prince of Bourbon-Two Sicilies.

Family

Prince Philip was the tenth child of Prince Alfonso of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Count of Caserta, and his wife, Princess Maria Antonietta of Bourbon-Two Sicilies.

Marriage and issue

Philip married firstly to Princess Marie Louise of Orléans, eldest daughter and child of Prince Emmanuel, Duke of Vendôme and his wife Princess Henriette of Belgium, on 12 January 1916 in Neuilly-sur-Seine. The couple had one son before their divorce in 1925:

  • Prince Gaetano Maria Alfonso Enrico Paolo of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (born 16 April 1917 in Cannes; died 27 December 1984 in Harare). On 16 February 1946 he married Olivia Yarrow (born 16 July 1917 in Dumfries; died 24 May 1987 in Harare) in Paddington. They had 2 sons. As the marriage was Morganatic, they had no dynastic rights to the throne of Two-Sicilies.:[2]
  • Adrian Philip de Bourbon (born 7 April 1948 in Warrington)
  • Philip Charles de Bourbon (born 5 May 1977 in Harare)
  • Michelle Lara de Bourbon (born 12 February 1979 in Harare)
  • Gregory Peter de Bourbon (born 2 January 1950 in Warrington)
  • Christan Peter de Bourbon (born 11 April 1974 in Vancouver)
  • Raymond Paul de Bourbon (born 8 November 1978 in Harare)

Philip married secondly (this time morganatically) to Odette Labori, daughter of French attorney Fernand Labori, on 10 January 1927 in Paris.[1] Philip and Odette did not have children.

Honours

  • Spain:

Ancestry

References

  1. 1.[1.2]Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Fürstliche Häuser IV. "Bourbon". C.A. Starke Verlag, 1956, p. 12. (German).
  2. 2."Detailed Analysis".