Maria Margarita, Duchess of Anjou

Infobox French Royalty|duchess
name = Maria Margarita
title = Duchess of Anjou
full name = María Margarita Vargas Santaella
date of birth = birth date and age|1983|10|21
place of birth = Candelaria, Caracas, Venezuela
father = Víctor José Vargas Irausquín
mother = Carmen Santaella Tellerías
spouse = Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou
issue = Princess Eugenia de Bourbon (b. 2007)
royal house = House of Bourbon

María Margarita Vargas Santaella, Duchess of Anjou (b. 21 October, 1983 at Candelaria, Caracas) is a Venezuelan heiress and wife of Prince Luis Alfonso de Borbón, Duke of Anjou, who is considered to be the head of the French Royal House by royalists who consider the renunciation of Philip V of Spain as invalid.

María Margarita's father is the well-known lawyer and owner of Banco BOD (BOD Bank) Víctor José Vargas Irausquín and wife Carmen Leonor Santaella Tellerías. She often appears in magazines around the world such as "¡Hola!" from Spain that cover the life of the European royalty.

María Margarita married Luis Alfonso in a civil ceremony in Caracas on 5 November, 2004 and in a religious ceremony the following day at La Romana, Dominican Republic. The couple have a daughter, Doña Eugenia de Borbón y Vargas (b. 5 March, 2007 at Mount Sinai Hospital, Miami, Florida).

She has a sister María Victoria, married to Francisco Javier d'Agostino Casado. She also had a brother named Víctor José after his father, who died young.

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