Princess Eugénie of Bourbon
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| Princess Eugénie | |||||
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| Madame Royale | |||||
| Born | 5 March 2007 Miami, Florida, U.S. | ||||
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| House | Bourbon | ||||
| Father | Prince Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou | ||||
| Mother | María Margarita Vargas Santaella | ||||
Princess Eugénie de Jésus de Bourbon Vargas, 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. She is a member of the House of Bourbon and a relative of the Spanish royal family.
Early life and family
[edit]Princess 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] 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.
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]
Princess Eugénie received her first communion on 4 June 2016 at the chapel of the Convent of Las Descalzas Reales in Madrid.
Personal life
[edit]Princess 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.[3][4] She opened the ball with a father-daughter waltz.[5] 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.[6][7][8] The tiara was rented from V Muse, the ball's jewelry sponsor.[9] She was escorted by Archduke Karl-Konstantin von Habsburg.[7][5] Princess Eugénie was one of two Spaniards to be presented as debutantes.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Etat présent de la Maison de Bourbon (6th ed.). Paris: Le Léopard d'or. 2020. pp. 47–55. ISBN 9782863772782.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- Living people
- 2007 births
- 21st-century Roman Catholics
- Daughters of dukes
- Debutantes of le Bal des débutantes
- French people of Spanish descent
- French people of Venezuelan descent
- French Roman Catholics
- House of Bourbon (Spain)
- Legitimists
- People from Miami
- Princesses of France (Bourbon)
- Spanish people of French descent
- Spanish people of Venezuelan descent
- Spanish Roman Catholics