Princess Margherita of Bourbon-Parma

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Infanta Margherita
Duchess of Madrid
Photograph by Atelier Nadar, 1878
Consort of the Carlist pretender to the Spanish throne
Pretence	3 October 1868 - 29 January 1893
Consort of the Legitimist pretender to the French throne
Pretence	21 November 1887 - 29 January 1893
Born	(1847-01-01)1 January 1847 Lucca, Duchy of Parma
Died	29 January 1893(1893-01-29) (aged 46) Viareggio, Tuscany, Kingdom of Italy
Spouse	Infante Carlos, Duke of Madrid ​ ​ (m. 1867)​
Issue	Blanca, Archduchess Leopold Salvator of Austria Infante Jaime, Duke of Madrid Infanta Elvira Infanta Beatriz, Princess of Roviano Alicia, Princess Friedrich of Schönburg-Waldenburg
Names French: Marguerite Marie Thérèse Henriette Italian: Margherita Maria Teresa Enrichetta Spanish: Margarita Maria Teresa Enriqueta
House	Bourbon-Parma
Father	Charles III, Duke of Parma
Mother	Princess Louise Marie Thérèse of France

Princess Margherita of Bourbon-Parma (Italian: Margherita Maria Teresa Enrichetta, Principessa di Parma; 1 January 1847 – 29 January 1893) was the eldest child and daughter of Charles III, Duke of Parma and Princess Louise Marie Thérèse of France, the eldest daughter of Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry and Princess Caroline Ferdinande Louise of the Two Sicilies.^[1]

Margherita was thus a great-granddaughter of Charles X of France. She was born in Lucca, Duchy of Parma. She was a niece of Henri, comte de Chambord, disputedly King of France and Navarre from 2 to 9 August 1830 and afterwards the Legitimist Pretender to the throne of France from 1844 to 1883. Through her marriage to Carlos de Borbón y Austria-Este, Carlist claimant to the Spanish throne.

She was born the 1 January 1847 in Lucca, Duchy of Parma. Margherita was the eldest child and daughter of Charles III, Duke of Parma and Princess Louise Marie Thérèse of France, who's the eldest daughter of Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry and Princess Caroline Ferdinande Louise of the Two Sicilies. Margherita was thus a great-granddaughter of Charles X of France. She was a niece of Henri, comte de Chambord, disputedly King of France and Navarre from 2 to 9 August 1830 and afterwards the Legitimist Pretender to the throne of France from 1844 to 1883.

She grew up in Parma until the Risorgimento. After that, her brother was deposed so the family moved in Venice. Here, Margherita's mother died. The siblings moved in their uncle's castle, Schloss Frohsdorf in Austria.

Margherita married Carlos de Borbón y Austria-Este, eldest son of Juan de Borbón y Braganza and his wife Archduchess Maria Beatrix of Austria-Este, on 4 February 1867 at Schloss Frohsdorf in Frohsdorf, Lower Austria, Austrian Empire.

• Blanca de Borbón y de Borbón-Parma (1868–1949)

∞ Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria, Prince of Tuscany, had issue.

• Jaime de Borbón y de Borbón-Parma (1870–1931)
• Elvira de Borbón y de Borbón-Parma (1871–1929) died unmarried, but with illegitimate issue who bore the name de Bourbon.
• Beatriz de Borbón y de Borbón-Parma (1874–1961)

∞ Fabrizio Massimo, Principe di Roviano, had issue.

• Alicia de Borbón y de Borbón-Parma (1876–1975)

∞ Friedrich, Prince von Schönburg-Waldenburg, had issue.

∞ Lino del Prete, had issue.

Margherita died on 29 January 1893, in her estate near Viareggio, Tuscany, Kingdom of Italy. Carlos remarried the following year to Princess Marie-Berthe of Rohan-Rochefort.

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