Princess Eugénie of Bourbon

Princess Eugénie
Madame Royale
Born (2007-03-05) 5 March 2007 (age 17)
Miami, Florida, U.S.
Names
Eugenia de Jesús de Borbón y Vargas
HouseBourbon
FatherPrince Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou
MotherMaría Margarita Vargas Santaella
French royal family
Legitimist
Extended royal family
  • The Dowager Duchess of Aquitaine
  • Princess Stephanie

Princess Eugénie de Jésus of Bourbon, Madame Royale (Spanish: Eugenia de Jesús de Borbón y Vargas; born 5 March 2007) is a French-Spanish aristocrat. She is the eldest child of Prince Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou, the Legitimist pretender to the former French throne and head of the House of Bourbon. A great-great granddaughter of King Alfonso XIII of Spain she is a relative of the Spanish royal family.

Early life and family

Eugénie was born on 5 March 2007 at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami, Florida, to Prince Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou, a pretender to the former French throne, and María Margarita Vargas Santaella, a Venezuelan heiress.[1][2] She is a member of the House of Bourbon and is accorded by Legitimists as the Madame Royale.[1][3] Her maternal grandfather is the Venezuelan banker Victor Vargas.[2] Her paternal grandfather, Prince Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz,[2] was a grandson of King Alfonso XIII of Spain and Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg. Her paternal grandmother, Carmen Martínez-Bordiú,[2] is the daughter of the 10th Marquis of Villaverde and the 1st Duchess of Franco and the granddaughter of former Spanish general and dictator Francisco Franco. While her titles have no legal standing in France, they are recognized by the Holy See.[4]

She was baptized in a Catholic ceremony at the Apostolic Nunciature to France on 1 June 2007 with Prince Charles-Emmanuel of Bourbon-Parma and Princess Constance of Bourbon-Parma serving as her godparents.[2]

Eugénie received her first communion on 4 June 2016 at the chapel of the Convent of Las Descalzas Reales in Madrid.

Personal life

Eugénie is a dual citizen of France and Spain.

On 30 November 2024, she was presented to society during Le Bal des débutantes at the Shangri-La Hotel in Paris.[5][6] She opened the ball with a father-daughter waltz.[7][3] She wore a €100,000 Art Deco-style diamond tiara, created by Boucheron in 1935, and a gown by Carolina Herrera, borrowed from her mother, for the occasion.[8][9][10] The tiara was rented from V Muse, the ball's jewelry sponsor.[11] She was escorted by Archduke Karl-Konstantin von Habsburg.[9][7] Eugénie was one of two Spaniards to be presented as debutantes and the only debutante that year to be a member of a royal house.[12][3]

Ancestry

References

  1. ^ a b Etat présent de la Maison de Bourbon (6th ed.). Paris: Le Léopard d'or. 2020. pp. 47–55. ISBN 9782863772782.
  2. ^ a b c d e "La hija de Luis Alfonso será bautizada mañana en una solemne ceremonia". Hola!. Eduardo Sánchez Junco. 31 May 2007. Retrieved 2 December 2024.
  3. ^ a b c Jureidini, Ben (3 December 2024). "The only royal at Le Bal 2024: How Princess Eugenia made her dazzling debut with a historically significant tiara and a sartorial nod to her regal mother". Tatler. Condé Nast. Retrieved 5 December 2024.
  4. ^ "Los mellizos de Luis Alfonso de Borbón y Margarita Vargas, bautizados en el Vaticano". ABC. 9 June 2010. Retrieved 13 December 2024.
  5. ^ "Eugenia de Borbón arrasa en el Baile de Debutantes de París con un espectacular vestido de su madre Margarita Vargas y tiara". Mujerhoy (in Spanish). 1 December 2024. Retrieved 3 December 2024.
  6. ^ Peñuela, Marta Carcelén (2 December 2024). "Eugenia de Borbón, arrebatadora en el Baile de Debutantes con un vestido que llevó su madre hace 13 años". ABC (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 December 2024.
  7. ^ a b Cortés, Marina Ortiz (2 December 2024). "Eugenia de Borbón, la "princesa" española a la que le quitaron el protagonismo en París" (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 December 2024.
  8. ^ Salvador, Anabel Gómez (2 December 2024). "La historia que se esconde tras la tiara de 100.000 euros que Eugenia de Borbón Vargas lució en Le Bal: su relación con Juan Carlos I". Infobae (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 December 2024.
  9. ^ a b Bateman, Kristen (1 December 2024). "Princesses and Hollywood Royalty: See All the Debs of 2024's Le Bal des Débutantes". Vogue. Retrieved 3 December 2024.
  10. ^ Dorado, Aitana (1 December 2024). "Eugenia de Borbón triunfa en el Baile de Debutantes con un vestido que ya llevó su madre Margarita Vargas hace 13 años". Elle (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 December 2024.
  11. ^ Díez-Garde, José Luis (2 December 2024). "Eugenia de Borbón: la soprendente historia de la tiara que lució en el Baile de Debutantes". La Razón (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 December 2024.
  12. ^ Guzmán, Noé (29 November 2024). "Eugenia de Borbón y Sofía Yadigaroglu, las dos españolas que brillarán en el Baile de Debutantes". Infobae (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 December 2024.