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Princess Eugénie of Bourbon

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Princess Eugénie
Madame Royale
Born (2007-03-05) 5 March 2007 (age 17)
Miami, Florida, U.S.
Names
Eugenia de Jesús de Borbón y Vargas
HouseBourbon
FatherPrince Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou
MotherMaría 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. A great-great granddaughter of Alfonso XIII, she is a member of the House of Bourbon and a relative of the Spanish royal family.

Early life and family

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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][3] 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]

Eugénie received her first communion on 4 June 2016 at the chapel of the Convent of Las Descalzas Reales in Madrid.

Personal life

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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.[4][5] She opened the ball with a father-daughter waltz.[6][3] 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.[7][8][9] The tiara was rented from V Muse, the ball's jewelry sponsor.[10] She was escorted by Archduke Karl-Konstantin von Habsburg.[8][6] Eugénie was one of two Spaniards to be presented as debutantes and the only debutante that year to be a member of a royal house.[11][3]

Ancestry

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References

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  1. ^ a b Etat présent de la Maison de Bourbon (6th ed.). Paris: Le Léopard d'or. 2020. pp. 47–55. ISBN 9782863772782.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ a b c Jureidini, Ben (3 December 2024). "The only royal at Le Bal 2024: How Princess Eugenia made her dazzling debut with a historically significant tiara and a sartorial nod to her regal mother". Tatler. Condé Nast. Retrieved 5 December 2024.
  4. ^ "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.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ 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.
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