Pretenders to the Throne of the Two Sicilies - Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Family of Alfonso, Duke of Calabria HRH The Dowager Duchess Family of Ferdinand, Duke of Castro Family of Ranieri, Duke of Castro HRH Princess Maria del Carmen Infante Carlos with his wife and children.Infante Carlos of Spain, Prince of the Two Sicilies, Duke of Calabria (Carlos Maria Alfonso Marcel de Borbn-Dos Sicilias y de Borbn-Parma) (born 16 January 1938 in Lausanne) is the son of Don Alfonso of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duke of Calabria (19011964) and Princess Alicia of Bourbon-Parma (born 1917). Infante Carlos is one of two claimants of the dignity of Head of the Royal House of the Two Sicilies. The other claimant is his 2nd cousin Prince Charles de Bourbon, Duke of Castro. He is also one of three claimants to the Grand Magistery of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George; the other two claimants are Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma and HRH Prince Charles de Bourbon Duke of Castro. Infante Carlos is the senior male line descendant of Ferdinand IV and III of Naples and Sicily (Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies) and as such "first born legitimate heir of the Farnese" (primogenito legittimo farnesiano), as Ferdinand was designated (with mistaken comprehension of genealogy) by his father, King Charles III of Spain, on 16 October 1759 (ten days after abdicating the Two Sicilies Crown) - Ferdinand's elder brothers were and are more 'primogenito' than Ferdinand ever could be. (HRH prince Carlo Tancredi di Borbone, grandfather of the Infante, is alleged to have renounced to his right by signing the famous Act of Cannes). It is important to remember that while Duke of Castro is a title that belong to the Head of the Royal House along with Duke of Parma, Piacenza, etc.; Duke of Calabria is the title that belong to the Crown prince just a... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=6134674