Duke Carlos Javier and the Royal House of Bourbon-Parma 2: Dec. 2022 -

[Blog Real]

Prince Amaury and Princess Pélagie of Bourbon-Parma, who have revealed that they are expecting their first child!.
He is the son of Prince Charles-Emmanuel and Princess Constance.
They married in July 2023.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1708393836630683896

Princess Charlotte has announced she is also expecting her first child with husband Javier Valladares Urruela and his sister Princess Elisabeth has announced her engagement to Xavier Denis.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1708396369453396035

 

[Biri]

Prince Amaury and Princess Pélagie of Bourbon-Parma, who have revealed that they are expecting their first child!.
He is the son of Prince Charles-Emmanuel and Princess Constance.
They married in July 2023.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1708393836630683896

Princess Charlotte has announced she is also expecting her first child with husband Javier Valladares Urruela and his sister Princess Elisabeth has announced her engagement to Xavier Denis.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1708396369453396035

Mrs Charlotte Valladares, nee Princess of Bourbon Parma should have given birth by now - on the wedding where both Charlotte's met, she had much bigger belly than the Duchess of Noto (who gave birth ten days ago).

 

[MarieAmelie_95]

From May 5th to May 9th, Princess Marie-Françoise attended the Order of Malta's pilgrimage to Lourdes, France. The Princess attended prayers and masses, meeting many people, including current leaders of the Order of Malta.

Next year the pilgrimage is scheduled from May 3rd to May 7th and the presence of the Princess is confirmed. Nice to see Princess Marie-Françoise! She's 95 now!

Source/Photo: Malte Liban

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Princess Charlotte gave birth to her first daughter, named Alix Marina Victoire Constance Marie Joseph, on October 9th. Alix is the first children of Princess Charlotte and her husband Javier Valladares Urruela.

Little Alix was introduced to the public in issue 3932 of December 2023 in Point de Vue magazine. Her parents gave an interview to Point de Vue. Alix appears in two photos of the article with her parents.

Source: Point de Vue n. 3932 (Preview)

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(go to photo number 8 of this post. It's one of the photos of Princess Charlotte, Javier & Alix in the Point de Vue article)

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Prince Carlos and Princess Annemarie, Duke and Duchess of Parma and Piacenza, visited Parma and Piacenza from September 21th to September 24th, as they do every year:

On September 22th, Prince Carlos and Princess Annemarie attended the General Chapter of the Knights of the Dynastic Orders of the House of Bourbon-Parma in Parma. At the event they met Enrico Solmi, Bishop of Parma.

Sources/Photos: Official Instagram Account of the Royal House of Bourbon-Parma, Facebook

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On September 23th, Prince Carlos and Princess Annemarie attended the Ceremony for the Conferral of the Dynastic Orders of the House of Bourbon-Parma in Piacenza. They had the opportunity to meet Adriano Cevolotto, Bishop of Piacenza-Bobbio.

Source/Photo: Official Instagram Account of the Royal House of Bourbon-Parma

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On the evening of September 23th, Prince Carlos and Princess Annemarie also attended the gala and ducal ball organized by the House of Bourbon-Parma at the Rezzanello Castle in Piacenza.

Source/Photo: Official Instagram Account of the Royal House of Bourbon-Parma

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Prince Carlos and Princess Annemarie also attended another event linked to the Royal House, probably on September 24th. Also present was Countess Ank de Visser, mother of the Duchess of Parma.

Sources/Photos: Facebook, Facebook 2

 

[Somebody]

Carlos & Annemarie's Christmas card: with a christmas wish in italian and a picture of the family. Young Carlos is almost as big as his sister Cecilia.

 

[Marengo]

An engagement: Princess Elisabeth of Bourbon Parma, daughter of Prince Charles-Emmanuel and Constance de Ravinel, is engaged to a man named Xavier Denis.

Mr. Denis is working in finance. They are both living in Brussels.

https://www.pointdevue.fr/royal/fra...es-de-la-princesse-elisabeth-de-bourbon-parme

The article shows photos at the engagement party in Spa, Belgium where Mr. Denis was raised.

The wedding will be in July in Normandy.

 

[Blog Real]

Prince Amaury of Bourbon-Parme and his wife Pss Pélagie (née de Mac Mahon) welcomed their first child - daughter Princess Sybille Marie Zita Amélie Constance Joseph born on December 25th 2023. (53 cm 4,1 kilo).

Source: point de vue
Photo: https://c9.quickcachr.fotos.sapo.pt/i/G33186e97/22618380_V8QCS.jpeg

 

[Marengo]

Lovely news. I imagine Zita is for the empress. Prince Jaime's daughter is also named that way. I suppose Amélie is for the maternal grandmother, the Hon. Amelia Drummond, and Constance for the paternal one.

 

[iceflower]

Here's another lovely photo of little Sybille with her proud parents:

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[Marengo]

Apparently they discovered that Queen Sybilla of Jerusalem had a father, King Amaury. I imagine it has played a role in selecting the name? Though the text is behind paywall before it is explained why the fact was mentioned.

 

[MAfan]

Lovely news. I imagine Zita is for the empress. Prince Jaime's daughter is also named that way. I suppose Amélie is for the maternal grandmother, the Hon. Amelia Drummond, and Constance for the paternal one.

Also Amaury's youngest sister is named Zita, so perhaps the newborn Princess was named after her aunt, rather than after the late Empress.

 

[Somebody]

Congrats to the parents and wider family! Wow, little Sybille has lots of hair!

I don't really understand why you would want to give a girl a boy's name (Joseph) but I guess for Catholic families that is less strange as many boys are also named Marie/Maria.

 

[Linda_26]

Apparently they discovered that Queen Sybilla of Jerusalem had a father, King Amaury. I imagine it has played a role in selecting the name? Though the text is behind paywall before it is explained why the fact was mentioned.

The newborn's first name, Sybille, could also be a reference to Amaury's paternal aunt, Princess Sybille of Bourbon-Parma (b.1954), the only one among Charles-Emmanuel's full sibilings who is still alive (he has half-sibilings on his father's side: certainly Amélie of Bourbon-Parma, and Serge and Hélène "of Yugoslavia" are also biological children of the late Prince Michel, by all accounts).

I don't really understand why you would want to give a girl a boy's name (Joseph) but I guess for Catholic families that is less strange as many boys are also named Marie/Maria.

It's also the case, for example, of Princess Astrid and Prince Lorenz of Belgium's children, who bear their godparents' names, including the one of the godparent of the opposite gender. For example, Prince Amedeo and Prince Joachim have, respectively, "Paola" and "Isabelle" among their given names, after their godmothers (maternal grandmother and paternal aunt)

 

[iceflower]

Princess Maria Pia attended Frederic Mitterrand's funeral at Eglise Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin in Paris today, March 26:

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[iceflower]

Duke Carlos Javier visited the Magistral Palace of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta in Rome on April 15:

@realecasadiborboneparma on Instagram: "Visita di S.A.R. il Duca di Parma e Piacenza a S.A.E. Fra' John T. Dunlap Principe e Gran Maestro del Sovrano Militare Ordine di Malta. In data 15 aprile 2024 a Roma presso il Palazzo Magistrale del Sovrano Mi

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The day after he visited the Vatican and met Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin as well as Prince Jaime:

@realecasadiborboneparma on Instagram: "Vaticano 16 aprile 2024. Incontro tra S.A.R. il Duca di Parma e Piacenza Carlo Saverio di Borbone Parma e Sua Eminenza Reverendissima il Cardinale Segretario di Stato Pietro Parolin. Nella foto presente anche S

44 likes, 0 comments - realecasadiborboneparmaApril 17, 2024 on : "Vaticano 16 aprile 2024. Incontro tra S.A.R. il Duca di Parma e Piacenza Carlo Saverio di Borbone Parma e Sua Eminenza Reverendissima il ...".

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[Biri]

Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma (b.1 April 1999) [youngest of four children of Prince Charles Emanuel of Bourbon-Parma (b.1961) & his wife Constance, nee Baroness de Ravinel (b.1970)] got engaged to Tristan Choppin-Haudry de Janvry (b.1987) this year.

Source: Descendants of King Christian IX of Denmark

 

[iceflower]

Sybille, 4-months-old daughter of Prince Amaury and Princess Pélagie was christened at the family's home in Normandy, France, on May 4:

Le bonheur d'Amaury et de Pélagie de Bourbon Parme au baptême de la princesse Sybille

Le 4 mai 2024, le premier enfant de LL. AA.RR. le prince Amaury de Bourbon Parme et la princesse Pélagie a reçu le sacrement du baptême dans la demeure familiale de Normandie. La cérémonie, intime et chaleureuse, a même laissé place à quelque improvisation de dernière minute pour davantage de grâce.

www.pointdevue.fr

 

[iceflower]

Prince and Princess Charles-Emmanuel attended the 60th birthday party of journalist, radio host and TV presenter Stéphane Bern in Paris last week:


** Pic ** PdV article **

 

[Hannelore]

Apparently they discovered that Queen Sybilla of Jerusalem had a father, King Amaury. I imagine it has played a role in selecting the name? Though the text is behind paywall before it is explained why the fact was mentioned.

I only read the article now ... There's no explanation as to why they chose the name Sybille. The fact that Queen Sybille of Jerusalem's father was called Amaury is a coincidence they discovered afterwards.
A more interesting detail is actually Pélagie opening up about the fact she suffers from endometriosis. She was delighted she got pregnant so soon, expecting it to be a rocky road to motherhood. Congrats to her! Sybille looks beautiful, a real doll from the start. Apparently she looks just like her dad did at the same age.
Amaury & Pélagie will be opening an educational farm in the Eure departement (Normandy) later this year. The family lives in Paris during the year.

 

[Marengo]

Thanks! A funny coincidence indeed. They seem to be a lovely couple.
I imagine an educational farm is a farm where visitors or schools can learn about agriculture?
Pont Audemer is in Eure I believe, a lovely area of France.

 

[MarieAmelie_95]

On July 6th, Princess Elisabeth religiously married her fiancé Xavier Denis in the Church of Saint-Aubin, Tourouvre au Perche, France.

To clarify: No official photo albums or articles from Histoires Royales or Point de Vue have yet been published. I think we should wait a little longer.

Princess Elisabeth's wedding dress, very beautiful, was made by Atelier Boisanger. Princesses Charlotte and Zita wore beautiful dresses with floral motifs.

Sources/photos: Instagram 1, Instagram 2, Instagram 3, Instagram 4

Update: Libelle magazine has recently published an article with two photos of the wedding:
Libelle.nl

 

[MarieAmelie_95]

On September 14th, Princess Annemarie, The Duchess of Parma, has been named Patron of the Netherlands Interuniversity Institute for Art History in Florence during a ceremony held at the Interuniversity' centre.

I am happy to see the Duchess take on honorary positions related to Italy.

Photos: Facebook

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On August 26th, Prince Carlos, The Duke of Parma, and the Ignacio Larramendi Foundation have established a pious mass foundation in the Diocese of Trieste, Italy, under the name of "Pía Fundación Familia Real Carlista".

"In the interest of preserving the memory of Carlism, both Don Carlos and the Ignacio Larramendi Foundation (an initiative begun together with its president, now deceased, Don Luis Hernando de Larramendi y Martínez) have decided to establish a pious mass foundation, which was erected by the Bishopric of Trieste, and whose purpose is the celebration of an annual Holy Mass in favor of the deceased of the Carlist Royal Family".

These masses will take place in November in Trieste and the Duke of Parma will be present.

Source/photo: carlosdeborbon.com

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Prince Carlos and Princess Annemarie will visit Parma and Piacenza (as they do every year) September 27th-28th for the annual events of the House of Bourbon-Parma in the lands of the former Duchy.

Source: borboneparma.it (official website)

In July, Prince Amaury and his little daughter Princess Sybille met with Prince Jaime, The Count of Bardi, his two daughters Princesses Zita and Gloria and Prince Charles-Henri de Lobkowicz (Princess Marie Françoise' son) at Prince Charles-Henri' castle.

Photo: Instagram

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Prince Amaury and Princess Pélagie will launch their own wine label during a conference in Palm Beach, Florida, USA, on 19 March 2025.

Princess Pélagie will talk about the way her family's famous wine is made at the Château de Sully, France.

Source: fourarts.org

 

[iceflower]

A selection of photos of the annual events of the House of Bourbon-Parma on September 27 and 28 have been shared today:

@realecasadiborboneparma on Instagram: "Una selezione di foto degli eventi annuali della Reale e Ducale Casa di Borbone Parma celebrati a Piacenza e Parma nei giorni 27 e 28 settembre 2024. Copyright foto ©️ Valeria De Giorgi"

4 likes, 0 comments - realecasadiborboneparma on October 8, 2024: "Una selezione di foto degli eventi annuali della Reale e Ducale Casa di Borbone Parma celebrati a Piacenza e Parma nei giorni 27 e 28 settembre 2024. Copyright foto ©️ Valeria De Giorgi".

www.instagram.com

 

[Marengo]

Nice to see Prince Charles-Emmanuel and his wife Constance in Parma too, with the Duke and his brother Jaime. It seems that in recent years the family relations have been tightened.

 

[iceflower]

Prince Amaury attended the "Innocence En Danger" 25th Anniversary Auction Gala in Paris, France yesterday, November 12:


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