Princess Maria da Glória, Duchess of Segorbe

Princess Dona Maria da Glória of Orléans-Bragança, Duchess of Segorbe, Countess of Rivadavia (Portuguese: Dona Maria da Glória Henriqueta Dolores Lúcia Miguela Rafaela Gabriela Gonzaga de Orléans e Bragança e Bourbon, Princesa de Orléans e Bragança, Duquesa de Segorbe, Condesa de Rivadavia; Serbian: Марија да Глорија Хенриејта Долорес Луција Михаела Рафаела Габријела Гонзага од Орлеан-Браганце и Бурбона, Принцеза од Орлеана и Браганце, Војвоткиња од Сегорбе, Грофица од Ривадавије; born 13 December 1946) is a descendant of the Brazilian Imperial Family and the second wife of the Duke of Segorbe. She is also the former wife of Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia.[1]

Princess Maria da Glória
Duchess of Segorbe and Countess of Rivadavia
Crown Princess of Yugoslavia (1972–1985)
Born (1946-12-13) 13 December 1946
Petrópolis, Brazil
Spouse
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    (m. 1972; div. 1985)​
      Ignacio de Medina y Fernández de Córdoba, 19th Duke of Segorbe
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      (m. 1985)​
      Issue
      HouseOrléans-Braganza
      FatherPrince Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza
      MotherPrincess Maria de la Esperanza of Bourbon-Two Sicilies

      Life and marriages

      Born at Petrópolis, Brazil, she is the daughter of Prince Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza (1913–2007) and Princess Maria de la Esperanza of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1914–2005). She is the first cousin of Juan Carlos I of Spain.

      On 1 July 1972, she married Alexander, former Crown Prince of Yugoslavia, at Villamanrique de la Condesa, near Seville, Spain. They were divorced on 19 February 1985. She has three sons from her first marriage:

      On 24 October 1985, she married Ignacio de Medina y Fernández de Córdoba, 19th Duke of Segorbe (in 2003 20th Count of Rivadavia), son of Victoria Eugenia Fernández de Córdoba, 18th Duchess of Medinaceli at Seville. It was also his second marriage, as he was previously married to Mercedes Maier y Allende, granddaughter of former Wimbledon mixed doubles champion Enrique Maier. Maria da Gloria and Ignacio have two daughters:

      • Sol María de la Blanca de Medina y Orléans-Braganza, 54th Countess of Ampurias (born 1986), heiress apparent to the Dukedom of Segorbe.
      • Ana Luna de Medina y Orléans-Braganza, 17th Countess of Ricla (born 1988).

      Ancestry

      Dynastically, the Duchess of Segorbe is a great-great-granddaughter of Emperor Pedro II of Brazil. Patrilineally, she is a great-great-great-granddaughter of Louis Philippe, King of the French. She is also a matrilineal 9th-generation descendant of Marie Leszczyńska, Queen consort of Louis XV of France, through an almost-three-century-long unbroken line of eight Bourbon princesses, each of whom married into their own dynasty, as follows: Marie Leszczyńska, Queen of France → Louise Élisabeth of France, Duchess of Parma → Maria Luisa of Parma, Queen of Spain → Maria Isabella of Spain, Queen of the Two Sicilies → Maria Cristina of the Two Sicilies, Queen Regent of Spain → Infanta Luisa Fernanda of Spain, Duchess of Montpensier → Princess Marie Isabelle d'Orléans, Infanta of Spain, Countess of Paris → Princess Louise d'Orléans, Princess of the Two Sicilies → Princess Maria de la Esperanza of the Two Sicilies, Princess of Orléans-Braganza → Princess Maria da Glória of Orléans-Braganza, sometime Crown Princess of Yugoslavia, Duchess of Segorbe.[4]

      References
      1. The Great Pretenders
      2. Going Places
      3. Heinbruins
      4. Willis, Daniel (1999). The Descendants of Louis XIII. Baltimore, US: Clearfield. pp. 3, 81–3, 81–82, 125, 134–135, 140, 251, 215, 325, 354. ISBN 0-8063-4942-5.
      Titles in pretence
      Vacant
      Title last held by
      Alexandra of Greece and Denmark      		 — TITULAR —
      Crown princess of Yugoslavia
      1 July 1972 – 1985
      Reason for succession failure:
      Communists abolished the Kingdom in 1945      		 Vacant
      Title next held by
      Katherine, Crown Princess of Yugoslavia
      Preceded by
      Princess Maria Isabel      		 — TITULAR —
      Line of succession to the Brazilian throne
      13th position (Petrópolis branch)
      Reason for succession failure:
      Empire abolished in 1889      		 Succeeded by
      Princess Cristina
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