Princess Béatrice of Bourbon-Two Sicilies

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name = Princess Béatrice
full name = Béatrice Marie Caroline Louise Françoise
title = Princess Béatrice Napoléon


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spouse = Charles Napoléon
issue =Princess Caroline
Prince Jean-Christophe
royal house = House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
House of Bonaparte
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father =Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Castro
mother =Chantal de Chevron-Villette
date of birth =birth date and age|1950|06|16|df=y
place of birth = Saint-Raphaël, Var, France
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Princess "Béatrice" Marie Caroline Louise Françoise of Bourbon-Two Siciliescite web | url=http://thepeerage.com/p11241.htm#i112410 | title=Beatrice di Borbone, Principessa di Borbone delle Due Sicilie | date=10 May 2003 | accessdate=2008-10-11 | publisher= [http://thePeerage.com thePeerage.com] | author=Darryl Lundy] cite web | url=http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/2sicilies.html| title=TWO SICILIES | date= | accessdate=2008-10-11 | publisher=Paul Theroff's Royal Genealogy Site | author=Paul Theroff] (born 16 June 1950 in Saint-Raphaël, Var, France) is the eldest daughter of Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Castro, Castro-line claimant to the Head of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, and his wife Chantal de Chevron-Villette. Béatrice was also titled as Princess Napoléon through her marriage to Charles Napoléon, later titular "Emperor of the French" as Napoléon VII, Prince Imperial. Her younger brother, Prince Carlo, Duke of Castro, is the current Castro-line claimant to the Head of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies.

Marriage and issue

Béatrice married Charles Napoléon, eldest son of Prince Louis Napoléon and his wife Alix de Foresta, on 19 December 1978 in Paris, France. Charles was the great-great-grand-nephew of Napoleon I of France, founder of the Imperial House of France. The couple divorced in 1989.

Béatrice and Charles had two children:

* HIH Princess Caroline Marie-Constance Napoléon (24 October 1980)
* HIH Prince Jean-Christophe Napoléon (11 July 1986)

Ancestry

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1= 1. Princess Béatrice of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
2= 2. Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Castro
3= 3. Chantal de Chevron-Villette
4= 4. Prince Ranieri, Duke of Castro
5= 5. Countess Carolina Zamoyska
6= 6. Pierre Joseph, Count of Chevron-Villette
7= 7. Marie de Colbert-Cannet
8= 8. Prince Alfonso, Count of Caserta
9= 9. Princess Antonietta of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
10= 10. Count Andrzej Zamoyski
11= 11. Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
12= 12. Charles Albert de Chevron-Villette
13= 13. Louise Fromentin de Saint Charles
14= 14. Alphonse, Marquis of Colbert-Cannet
15= 15. Anne Marie Brossier de La Roullière
16= 16. Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies
17= 17. Maria Theresa of Austria
18= 18. Prince Francis, Count of Trapani
19= 19. Archduchess Maria Isabella of Austria
20= 20. Count Stanisław Kostka Andrzej Zamoyski
21= 21. Rosa Maria Eva Potocka
22= 22. Prince Francis, Count of Trapani (= 18)
23= 23. Archduchess Maria Isabella of Austria (= 19)
24= 24. Theophile Victor, Count of Chevron-Villette
25= 25. Idalie Guillet de Monthoux
26= 26. Henri Fromentin de Saint Charles
27= 27. Clemence Marie Justine Delocre
28= 28. Edouard, Count of Colbert du Cannet
29= 29. Caroline de Colbert Turgis
30= 30. André Stephane Brossier, Baron de La Roullière
31= 31. Louise Bayon de Liberta

References