Anna of Bourbon-Parma

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Anna de Bourbon-Parma 1991
Anna and consort Michael on a 2014 Romanian postage stamp
Coat of arms of the Romanian kings from the house of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

Anna de Bourbon-Parma , full name Anna Maria Antonie Françoise Zita Marguerite de Bourbon-Parma (born September 18, 1923 in Paris , † August 1, 2016 in Morges , Switzerland ) was a member of the House of Bourbon-Parma .

Life

Princess Anna was the only daughter of Prince Renato of Bourbon-Parma (1894–1962), son of Duke Robert I of Parma , and of Princess Margaretha of Denmark (1895–1992), niece of King Frederick VIII of Denmark .

As a member of the House of Bourbon-Parma, she was in London in November 1947 at the wedding of the British heir to the throne Elizabeth (II) with the Greek Prince Philip . There she met the young King Michael I of Romania .

On June 10, 1948, she married Michael in the chapel of the Royal Palace of Athens . Michael had been deposed as king in Romania a few months earlier, but despite her husband's deposition, Anna was dubbed Queen of Romania. However, the couple referred to themselves as the Prince and Princess of Hohenzollern .

Since the fall of the Ceaușescu regime, the couple lived again in the Elisabeth Palace in Bucharest , but without exercising a political function. Since 2004 the couple lived in Aubonne , Switzerland. After her death Anna was buried in the Cathedral of Curtea de Argeș .

progeny

The couple had five daughters, all of whom were born in exile:

⚭ 1997 Radu Duda; adopted Prince of Hohenzollern-Veringen (* 1960)
  • Helen (born November 15, 1950 in Lausanne)
⚭ 1983–1991 Dr. Leslie Robin Medforth-Mills (1942-2002)
⚭ 1998 Alexander Philips Nixon McAteer (* 1964)
  • Irina (* February 28, 1953 in Lausanne) ⚭ 1983–2003 John Kreuger (* 1945)
  • Sophie (born October 29, 1957 in Tatoi near Athens ) ⚭ 1998–2002 Alain Biarneix
  • Maria (born July 13, 1964 in Hellerup , Copenhagen ) ⚭ 1995–2003 Casimir Mystkowski

ancestors

Pedigree of Princess Anna of Bourbon-Parma
Great-great-grandparents

Duke
Charles II. Ludwig
von Bourbon-Parma
(1799–1883)
⚭ 1820
Princess
Maria Theresa
of Savoy
(1803–1879)

Prince
Charles Ferdinand,
Duke of Berry
(1778–1820)
⚭ 1816
Princess
Marie Caroline
of Bourbon-Sicily
(1798–1870)

King
John VI
of Portugal
(1767–1826)
⚭ 1785
Infanta
Charlotte Joachime
of Spain
(1775–1830)

Hereditary Prince
Constantin
of Löwenstein- Wertheim- Rosenberg
(1802–1838)
⚭ 1829
Princess
Marie Agnes
of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
(1804–1835)

Duke
Friedrich Wilhelm
of Schleswig-Holstein- Sonderburg- Glücksburg
(1785–1831)
⚭ 1810
Princess
Luise Karoline
of Hessen-Kassel
(1789–1867)

Landgrave
Wilhelm von Hessen -Kassel-Rumpenheim
(1787–1867)
⚭ 1810
Princess
Louise Charlotte
of Denmark
(1789–1864)

Duke
Ferdinand Philippe d'Orléans, duc de Chartres
(1810–1842)
⚭ 1837
Duchess
Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
(1814–1858)

Prince
François d'Orléans, prince de Joinville
(1818–1900)
⚭ 1843
Infanta
Franziska Caroline of Brazil and Portugal
(1824–1898)
Great grandparents

Duke
Ferdinand Karl III. of Parma
(1823–1854)
⚭ 1845
Princess
Louise Marie Therese of France
(1819–1864)

King
Michael I of Portugal
(1802–1866)
⚭ 1851
Princess
Adelheid zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg
(1831–1909)

King
Christian IX of Denmark
(1818–1906)
⚭ 1842
Princess
Louise of Hesse
(1817–1898)

Prince
Robert d'Orléans, duc de Chartres
(1840–1910)
⚭ 1863
Princess
Françoise of Orléans
(1844–1925)

Grandparents

Duke Robert I of Parma (1848–1907)
⚭ 1884
Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal (1862–1959)

Prince Waldemar of Denmark (1858–1939)
⚭ 1885
Princess Marie of Bourbon-Orléans (1865–1909)
parents

Prince Renato of Bourbon-Parma (1894–1962)
⚭ 1921
Princess Margaretha of Denmark (1895–1992)

Princess Anna of Bourbon-Parma (1923-2016)

literature

  • Radu, Prince of Hohenzollern-Veringen: Anne of Romania. A War, A Exile, A Life , The Romanian Cultural Foundation Publishing House, Bucharest (2002) ISBN 973-577-338-4
  • Marlene Eilers-Koenig: The Marrige of King Michael I. and Queen Anne of Romania , European Royal History Journal (June 2008)
  • Anne Princess of Bourbon-Parma , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 22/1951 of May 21, 1951, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

Commons : Anna of Bourbon-Parma  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Majestatea Sa Regina Ana a încetat din viață
  2. ^ MS Regele Mihai I , familiaregala.ro
  3. ↑ Înmormântarea Reginei Ana sa încheiat , Adevărul August 13, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Bourbon-Parma, Anna of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roumanie, Anne Antoinette Françoise Charlotte de; Borbone, Anne Antoinette Françoise Charlotte di; Bourbon-Parma, Anna Maria Antonie Françoise Zita Marguerite from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian noblewoman, wife of the last King of Romania
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH August 1, 2016
Place of death Morges