Saturday, October 13, 2007

Former Ruling Houses

Albania
His Royal Highness Crown Prince Leka Zogu of Albania (b. 5 April, 1939 at the Royal Palace, Tirana, Albania) is the current pretender to the Albanian throne. As king, he would be Leka I. He had one child by his late wife, Queen Susan (née Susan Cullen-Ward):
  • HRH Prince Leka Anwar Zog Reza Baudouin Msiziwe Zogu of Albania (b. 26 March 1982 at Sandton, South Africa)

Austria
His Imperial and Royal Highness Crown Prince Franz Joseph Otto Robert Maria Anton Karl Max Heinrich Sixtus Xaver Felix Renatus Ludwig Gaetan Pius Ignatius of Austria (b. 20 November 1912 at Reichenau, Germany) is the current pretender to the Austro-Hungarian throne. As emperor, he would be Otto I. He has seven children by his wife, Crown Princess Regina (née Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen and Hildburghausen):
  • HI&RH Archduchess Andrea Maria of Austria (b. 30 May 1953 at Wurzburg, Bavaria) married Hereditary Count Karl Eugen of Neipperg, and has issue (Philipp, Benedikt, Dominik, Hemma and Katharina)
  • HI&RH Archduchess Monika Maria Roberta Antonia Raphaela of Austria (b. 13 September 1954 at Wurzburg, Bavaraia) married Luis Maria Gonzago de Casanova-Cardenas y Baron, Duke of Santangelo and has issue (Baltasar, Gabriel, Rafael and Santiago)
  • HI&RH Archduchess Michaela Maria Madeleine Kiliana of Austria (b. 13 September 1954 at Wurzburg, Bavaria) married (1) Eric Teran d'Antin and has issue (Marc, Carla and Justin) and (2) Count Hubertus von Kageneck
  • HI&RH Archduchess Gabriela Maria Charlotte Feliticas Elisabeth Antonia of Austria (b. 14 October 1956 at Schloss Berg, Luxembourg) married Christian Meister (divorced) and has issue (Severin, Lioba and Alena)
  • HI&RH Archduchess Walburga Maria Franziska Helene Elisabeth of Austria (b. 5 October, 1958 at Schloss Berg, Luxembourg) married Count Archibald Douglas and has issue (Moritz)
  • HI&RH Archduke Karl Thomas Robert Maria Franziskus Georg Bahnam of Austria (b. 11 January 1961 at Starnberg, Bavaria), and heir to the House of Habsburg; married Baroness Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza and has issue:
    • HI&RH Archduchess Eleonore Jelena Maria del Pilar Iona of Austria (b. 28 February 1994)
    • HI&RH Archduke Ferdinand Zvonimir Maria Balthus Keith Michal Otto Antal Bahnam Leonhard of Austria (b. 21 June 1997), the heir, after his father, to the House of Habsburg
    • HI&RH Archduchess Gloria Maria Bogdana Paloma Regina Fiona Gabriela of Austria (b. 15 October 1999)
  • HI&RH Archduke Paul Georg Maria Joseph Dominikus of Austria (b. 16 December 1964 at Starnberg, Bavaria) married Duchess Eilika of Oldenburg and has issue:
    • HI&RH Archduchess Zsófia Mária Tatjana Monika Erzsébet Katalin of Austria (b. 12 January 2001)
    • HI&RH Archduchess Ildiko Maria Walburga of Austria (b. 6 June 2002)
    • HI&RH Archduke Károly-Konstantin Mihály István Maria of Austria (b. 20 July 2004)

Bulgaria
His Majesty Tsar Simeon II of Bulgaria (b. 16 June 1937 at Sofia, Bulgaria) is the former tsar and current pretender to the Bulgarian throne. He has five children by his wife, Tsaritsa Margarita (née Margarita Gómez-Acebo y Cejuela):
  • HRH Crown Prince Kardam, Prince of Turnovo (b. 2 December 1962 at Madrid, Spain), heir to the Bulgarian throne; married Doña Miriam Ungria y López and has issue:
    • HRH Prince Boris of Bulgaria (b. 12 October 1997)
    • HRH Prince Beltran of Bulgaria (b. 23 March 1999)
  • HRH Prince Kyrill, Prince of Peslav (b. 11 July 1964 at Madrid, Spain) married Doña Rosario Nadal y Fuster-Puigdorfila and has issue:
    • HRH Princess Mafalda-Ceceilia of Bulgaria (b. 27 July 1994)
    • HRH Princess Olimpia of Bulgaria (b. 14 December 1995)
    • HRH Prince Tassilo of Bulgaria (b. 20 January 2002)
  • HRH Prince Kubrat, Prince of Panagiurishte (b. 5 November 1965 at Madrid, Spain) married Carla Soledad Royo-Villanova y Urrestarazu and has issue:
    • HRH Prince Mirko of Bulgaria (b. 26 April 1995)
    • HRH Prince Lukás of Bulgaria (b. 15 July 1997)
    • HRH Prince Tirso of Bulgaria (b. 3 June 2002)
  • HRH Prince Konstantin-Assen, Prince of Vidin (b. 5 December 1967 at Madrid, Spain) married Doña María Garcia de la Rasilla y Gortazar and has issue:
    • HRH Prince Umberto of Bulgaria (b. 20 November 1999)
    • HRH Princess Sofia of Bulgaria (b. 20 November 1999)
  • HRH Princess Kalina of Bulgaria (b. 19 January 1972 at Madrid, Spain) married Antonio "Kitín" Muñoz Valcárcel and has issue (Simeon Hassan)

France (Borbón line)
His Royal Highness Don Luis Alfonso Gonzalo Víctor Emanuel Marco de Borbón y Martínez-Bordiú, Duke of Anjou and of Borbón. (b. 25 April 1974 at Madrid, Spain) is the current pretender to the Legitimist French throne. French legitimists call him Prince Louis Alphonse de Bourbon, and as king, he would be Louis XX. He has one child by his wife, Doña Maria Margarita, Duchess of Anjou (née Maria Margarita de Vargas y Santaella):
  • Doña Eugenia Borbón y Vargas (b. 5 March 2007 at Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami, Florida) French legitimists recognise her as Princess Eugenie of Bourbon, Madame Royal

France (Orléans line)
His Royal Highness Prince Henri Philippe Pierre Marie of Orléans, comte de Paris, duc de France (b. 14 June, 1933 at Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, Belgium) is the current pretender to the Orléanist French throne. As king, he would be Henry VII . He married (1) Marie-Therese, Duchess de Montpensier (née Duchess Marie-Therese of Württemberg) and (2) Micaela, Princesse de Joinville (née Micaela Cousiño Quiñones de Léon). He has five children by his first wife:
  • HRH Princess Marie Isabelle Marguerite Anne Geneviève of Orléans (b. 3 January 1959 at Boulogne-sur-Seine, France) married Prince Gundakar of Liechtenstein and has issue (Leopoldine, Marie, Johann, Margarete and Gabriel)
  • HRH Prince François Henri Louis Marie of Orléans, comte de Clermont (b. 7 February 1961 at Boulogne-sur-Seine), he is heir to the Orléanist French throne after his father, but because he is severely disabled as a result of congeital toxoplasmosis, his younger brother, Jean will act as regent upon their father's death
  • HRH Princess Blanche Elisabeth Rose Marie of Orléans (b. 10 September 1962 at Ravensburg, Germany), severely disabled as a result of congeital toxoplasmosis
  • HRH Prince Jean Charles Pierre Marie of Orléans, duc de Vendôme, Dauphin de Viennois (b. 19 May 1965 at Boulogne-sur-Seine)
  • Prince Eudes Thibaut Joséph Marie of Orléans, duc d'Angoulême (b. 1968) married Marie-Liesse de Rohan-Chabot and has issue:
    • HRH Princess Thérèse Isabelle Marie Eléonore of Orléans (b. 23 April 2001 at Cannes, France)
    • HRH Prince Pierre Jean Marie of Orléans (b. 6 August 2003 at Cannes, France)

France (Bonaparte line)
His Imperial Highness Prince Charles Marie Jérôme Victor Napoléon is the current pretender to the throne of Bonaparte France. As king, he would be Napoléon VII. He married (1) Princess Béatrice of Bourbon-Two Sicilies and (2) Jeanne Françoise Valliccioni. He had two children from his first marriage, and one from his second, born before the marriage.
  • HRH Princess Caroline Marie Constance Napoléon (b. 24 October 1980 at Paris, France)
  • HRH Prince Jean-Christophé Napoléon (b. 11 July 1986 at Saint-Raphaël, Var, France); heir to the Bonaparte throne
  • Sophie Cathérine Napoléon (b. 18 April 1992); born before her parents' marriage
  • Anh Napoléon (b. 22 April 1998 at Saigon, Vietnam); Anh was adopted by Charles and Jeanne

Greece
His Majesty King Konstantinos II of the Hellenes (b. 2 June 1940 at Psychiko, Athens, Greece) is the former king and pretender to the throne of Greece. He has five children by his wife, Queen Anne-Marie (née Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark)
  • HRH Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark (b. 10 July 1965 at Mon Repos, Corfu, Ioanian Islands, Greece) married Carlos Morales Quintana and has issue (Arrieta, Ana-Maria, Carlos and Amelia)
  • HRH Crown Prince Pavlos of Greece, Prince of Denmark (b. 20 May 1967 at Athens, Greece); heir to the Greek throne; married Marie-Chantal Miller and has issue:
    • HRH Princess Maria-Olympia of Greece and Denmark (b. 25 July 1996 at New York City, New York)
    • HRH Prince Konstantinos-Alexios of Greece and Denmark (b, 29 October 1998 at New York City, New York); he is heir, after his father, to the Greek throne
    • HRH Prince Achileas-Andreas of Greece and Denmark (b. 12 August 2000 at New York City, New York)
    • HRH Prince Odysseas-Kimon of Greece and Demark (b. 17 September 2004 at London, England)
    • HRH Prince Aristidis Stavros of Greece and Denmark (b. 29 June, 2008)
  • HRH Prince Nikolaos of Greece and Denmark (b. 1 October 1969 at Rome, Italy)
  • HRH Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (b. 9 June 1983 at London, England)
  • HRH Prince Philippos of Greece and Denmark (b. 26 April 1986 at London, England)

Italy
His Royal Highness Prince Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples (b. 12 February 1937 at Naples, Italy) is the current pretender to the Italian throne. As king, he would be Vittorio Emanuele IV. He has one child with his wife, Marina, Princess of Naples (née Marina Doria):
  • HRH Prince Emanuele Filiberto Umberto Reza Rene Maria, Prince of Venice and Piedmont (b. 22 June 1972 at Geneva, Switzerland) heir to the Italian throne; married Clotilde Courau and has issue:
    • HRH Princess Vittoria Cristina Adelaide Chiara Maria of Savoy (b. 29 December 2003 at Geneva, Switzerland)
    • HRH Princess Luisa Giovanna Agata Gavina Bianca Maria of Savoy (b. 16 August 2006 at Geneva, Switzerland)

Montenegro
HRH Prince Nikola Petrovic-Njegoš of Montenegro (b. 7 July 1944) is the current pretender to the Montenegrin throne. As king, he would be Nikola II. He has two children with his wife, Francine Navarro:
  • HRH Princess Altinaï of Montenegro (b. 27 October 1977 at Les Lilas, Seine-Saint-Denis, France)
  • HRH Prince Boris Petrovic-Njegoš of Montenegro, Grand Duke of Grahavo and Zeta (b. 21 January 1980 at Les Lilas, Seine-Saint-Denis, France) ; married Véronique Haillot Canas da Silva and has issue:
    • HRH Princess Miléna of Montenegro (b. 11 February 2008 at Maternité des Lilas, Seine-Saint-Denis, France)

Portugal
His Royal Highness Dom Duarte Pio João Miguel Gabriel Rafael de Bragança, Duke of Braganza (b. 15 May 1945 at the Portuguese Embassy at Berne, Switzerland) is the current pretender to the Portuguese throne. As king, he would be Duarte Pio I. He has three children with his wife, Doña Isabel, Duchess of Braganza (née Isabel de Herédia):
  • HRH Infante Dom Afonso de Santa Maria Miguel Gabriel Rafael de Herédia de Bragança, Prince of Beira, Duke of Barcelos (b. 25 March, 1996)
  • HH Infanta Doña Maria Francisca Isabel Micaela Gabriela Rafaela Paula de Herédia de Bragança of Portugal (b. 3 March 1997)
  • HH Infante Dom Dinís de Santa Maria Miguel Gabriel Rafael Francisco João de Herédia de Bragança, Duke of Porto (b. 25 November 1999)

Prussia
HI&RH Prince Georg Friedrich Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia (b. 10 June 1976 at Bremen, Germany) is the current pretender to the Prussian throne. As kaiser, he would be known as Georg Friedrich I.

Romania
His Majesty King Michael of Roumania (b. 25 October 1921 at Sinaia, Roumania) is the former king and current pretender to the throne of Roumania. He has five children by his wife, Queen Anne (née Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma)
  • HRH Crown Princess Margarita of Roumania (b. 26 March 1949 at Lausanne, Switzerland) married Radu Duda (created Prince of Hohenzollern-Veringen), no issue
  • HRH Princess Elena of Roumania (b. 15 November 1950 at Lausanne, Switzerland) married (1) Leslie Medforth-Mills (2) Alexander McAteer. She has two children from his first marriage:
    • Nicholas Michael de Roumanie Medforth-Mills (b. 1 April, 1985, will assume the title HRH Prince Nicholas of Romania upon his 25th birthday or the death of his grandfather, whichever should come first)
    • Elizabeth Karina de Roumanie Medforth-Mills (b. 1 January, 1989)
  • HRH Princess Irina of Roumania (b. 28 February 1953 at Lausanne, Switzerland) married John Krueger and has issue:
    • Michael Torsten de Roumanie Kreuger (b. 25 February 1985)
    • Angelica Margareta Bianca de Roumanie Kreuger (b. 29 December, 1986)
  • HRH Princess Sophia of Roumania (b. 28 October 1957 at Tatoi, Greece) married Alain Biarneix de Laufenborg (divorced) and has issue:
    • Elisabeta-Maria Bianca Elena Biarneix (b. 15 August, 1999)
  • HRH Princess Maria of Roumania (b. 13 July 1964 at Hellerup, Denmark) married Casimir Mystkowski (divorced) no issue

Yugoslavia
HRH Crown Prince Alexandar of Yugoslavia (b. 17 July 1945) is the current pretender to the Serbia throne. As king, he would be Alexander II. He married (1) Princess Maria da Gloria of Orleans-Braganza and (2) Katherine Batis. He has three children from his first marriage:
  • HRH Hereditary Prince Petar of Serbia (b. 5 February 1980 at Chicago, Illinois)
  • HRH Prince Philip of Serbia (b. 15 January 1982 at Fairfax, Virginia)
  • HRH Prince Alexandar of Serbia (b. 15 January 1982 at Fairfax, Virginia)

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