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- Princess María de las Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (Spanish: [maˈɾi.a meɾˈθeðes]; María de las Mercedes Cristina Genara Isabel Luisa Carolina Victoria y Todos los Santos de Borbón y Orléans; 23 December 1910 – 2 January 2000) was a member of the Spanish royal family and the mother of King Juan Carlos I.
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Mercedes was both a French princess and a Spanish Infanta. Her maternal aunt Queen Isabella II of Spain and Isabella’s husband Francisco, Duke of Cadiz and King Consort of Spain were her godparents.
María was born in Madrid, daughter of Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Infante of Spain, a grandson of King Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies, and his second wife, Princess Louise of Orléans, daughter of Prince Philippe, Count of Paris, a pretender to the French throne.
Although Mercedes was patrilineally a French princess, she was also a Spanish infanta and spent the first eight years of her life in Spain.
Maria Mercedes had a very impressive royal lineage – on her father’s side, she was descended from multiple branches of the Bourbon-Two Sicilies family who ruled in Italy until the late 19th century. On her mother’s side, Maria Mercedes was descended from both recent Spanish and French royalty.
Marguerite-Philippe du Cambout. Marie de Castellane. Catherine of France, Countess of Charolais. Catherine of France, Countess of Montpensier. Catherine of Valois. Cecile of France. Charlotte de La Trémoille. Claude of France. Claude of Valois.
Apr 12, 2012 · April 12, 2012. The Diana inquest jury has been yesterday shown shocking paparazzi pictures of the princess as she lay dying. One close-up photograph was taken moments after the Mercedes...
Apr 13, 2012 · When the black Mercedes was examined by French forensic scientists, they found scrapings on the right rear wing of the white paint from the Fiat Uno it struck moments before it crashed....
