Spanish Royal Family

Spanish Royal Family

The Royal Family of the Kingdom of Spain consists of the direct descendants of the current king, Juan Carlos. The Spanish royal family belongs to the House of Bourbon.

The King's two daughters hold the title Infanta (Princess) of Spain, with the style "Her Royal Highness". Their husbands hold no title of their own but are styled "His Excellency The Duke of ". Their children hold the style of "His" or "Her Excellency" and the rank of a Grandee of Spain.

The King's heir bears the title Prince or Princess of Asturias with the style "His Royal Highness". The wife of a Prince of Asturias holds the title Princess of Asturias with the style "Her Royal Highness". The children of the Prince of Asturias have the title Infante/Infanta and the style "Royal Highness".

The Royal Family includes:

* HM The King
* HM The Queen (The King's Wife)
** TRH The Prince and Princess of Asturias (The King's son and his wife)
*** HRH The Infanta Leonor (the Prince of Asturias' elder daughter)
*** HRH The Infanta Sofía (the Prince of Asturias' younger daughter)
** HRH The Infanta Elena (The King's elder daughter)
*** HE Don Froilán de Marichalar y de Borbón (Infanta Elena's son)
*** HE Doña Victoria de Marichalar y de Borbón (Infanta Elena's daughter)
** HRH The Infanta Cristina and HE The Duke of Palma de Mallorca (The King's younger daughter and her husband)
*** HE Don Juan Valentín Urdangarín y de Borbón (Infanta Cristina's eldest son)
*** HE Don Pablo Nicolás Urdangarín y de Borbón (Infanta Cristina's second son)
*** HE Don Miguel Urdangarín y de Borbón (Infanta Cristina's youngest son)
*** HE Doña Irene Urdangarín y de Borbón (Infanta Cristina's daughter)

Extended family

The King's sisters

The King's two sisters renounced their rights of succession upon marriage, but those renunciations took place before the adoption of the Constitution and were not ratified by the Cortes.

Both sisters bear the title Infanta of Spain with the style "Her Royal Highness". Their children have the right to the status of Grandee and the title Excellency like the children of Infanta Elena and Infanta Cristina.

* HRH Infanta Doña Pilar de Borbón, Duchess of Badajoz (ad personam).
* HRH Infanta Doña Margarita de Borbón, Duchess of Soria (ad personam), 2nd Duchess of Hernani (hereditary title).

House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies

HRH Don Carlos Maria Alfonso Marcel of Bourbon-Two Sicilies & Bourbon-Parma, Infante of Spain, Prince of the two Sicilies, Duke of Calabria (born 1938), cousin of the King, from the Bourbon-Two Sicilies family, received the title Infante of Spain by Royal Decree 2412 dated December 16 1994 [ [http://www.boe.es/g/es/bases_datos/doc.php?coleccion=iberlex&id=1994/27905 Real Decreto 2412/1994] ] . Although it is often stated that this title was given in recognition of Don Carlos' status as head of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, the wording of the decree does not support that view. The King refers to "Las circunstancias excepcionales que concurren" (the exceptional circumstances that concur) in Don Carlos. The reference is to circumstances, not a single circumstance. The decree than cites Don Carlos' representation of the ties between his family and the Spanish Crown as one of those circumstances. For whatever reason, the King chose not to specify what he meant.

Although Don Carlos claims to be the rightful King of the Two Sicilies, his position is disputed. Don Carlos is also the senior heir of Infanta Doña Maria de las Mercedes, the eldest sister of King Alphonso XIII of Spain who was heiress presumptive to the throne for her entire life. (Alphonso XIII was born months after his father's death, if he had been a girl Maria de las Mercedes would have become Queen. Alphonso's first child was not born until after his sister's death.) Don Carlos' father, Don Alphonso de Borbón-Dos Sicilies (who was heir presumptive to the Spanish Throne from [19-08), and King Juan Carlos of Spain's mother were siblings. Don Carlos' mother belongs to the Bourbon-Parma family that used to rule the Italian Duchy of Parma. His wife belongs to the French branch of the House of Bourbon. His wife's mother belonged to the Brazilian branch of the Bourbons. Being a representative of the family descended from someone who nearly became Queen, descended from two former heirs presumptive, having immediate connections (father, mother, grandmother, wife, mother-in-law) to all branches of the vast Bourbon Dynasty, and the family that provided the mother of the current King is much more relevant to Spain that any link Don Carlos might have with the long defunct Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.

The title was not extended to Don Carlos' wife who was born HRH Anne Marguerite Brigitte Marie d'Orléans, Fille de France, Princess of Orléans, a member of the French Royal House. Their children would ordinarily have the status of Grandee with the title Excellency but instead generally use the title Prince(ss) of Bourbon-Two Sicilies based on their father's descent from the former Kings of the Two Sicilies. Although her wife is officially styled Her Royal Highness Princess Anne of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duchess of Calabria.

ee also

*Line of succession to the Spanish Throne

References


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