Guy Georges Vĩnh San (born 31 January 1933), also Prince Nguyễn Phúc Bảo Ngọc, is a son of Vietnamese emperor

Duy Tân Emperor Duy Tân (, vi-hantu, 維新, lit. "renovation"; 19 September 1900 – 26 December 1945), born Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh San, was the 11th emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty in Vietnam, who reigned for nine years between 1907 and 1916. Early c ...

who reigned from 1907 to 1916. Since 2017, he has been the head of the

House of Nguyễn Phúc The House of Nguyễn Phúc, also known as the House of Nguyễn Phước, was a ruling family of Vietnam. It ruled from the city of Huế in central Vietnam beginning in 1600. As the Nguyễn lords, they often fought with the Trịnh lords ...

, Vietnam's former imperial house.Vĩnh, Cao,
Nguyễn Phúc tộc thế phả
', Hue, Thuan Hoa Publishing House, 1995, p. 327. On the royal clan's genealogical table, only Emperor

Bảo Đại Bảo Đại (, vi-hantu, , lit. "keeper of greatness", 22 October 191331 July 1997), born Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thụy (), was the 13th and final emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty, the last ruling dynasty of Vietnam. From 1926 to 1945, he was em ...

and his children come after Duy Tân's children. Bảo Đại's legitimate male line ended in 2017 with the death of Prince

Bảo Thăng Prince Nguyễn Phúc Bảo Thăng (30 September 1944 – 15 March 2017) was the son of Emperor Bảo Đại and Empress Nam Phương of Vietnam. He succeeded as head of the House of Vietnam following the death of his brother, Bảo Long, on 28 ...

. Duy Tân is designated head of the 17th generation of Nguyễn Phúc ("17.I"). This suggests that his eldest son is head of the 18th generation. Georges lives in France.Cháu nội vua Thành Thái lần đầu về Huế dự giỗ ông
, ''Thanh Nien,'' March 24, 2016. This article has pictures of Georges in a traditional outfit. Duy Tân was deposed by the French administration after he attempted an uprising in 1916. He was exiled to the island of

Réunion Réunion (; french: La Réunion, ; previously ''Île Bourbon''; rcf, label= Reunionese Creole, La Rényon) is an island in the Indian Ocean that is an overseas department and region of France. It is located approximately east of the island ...

in the Indian Ocean. There he met and married Fernande Antier. Georges was their first child.Buyer, Christopher, ''The Royal Ark,''
Vietnam: The Nguyen Phuoc Dynasty
" During World War II, Duy Tân sided with

Charles de Gaulle Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (; ; (commonly abbreviated as CDG) 22 November 18909 November 1970) was a French army officer and statesman who led Free France against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government ...

against the pro-German French government of

Philippe Pétain Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Pétain (24 April 1856 – 23 July 1951), commonly known as Philippe Pétain (, ) or Marshal Pétain (french: Maréchal Pétain), was a French general who attained the position of Marshal of France at the end of World ...

. "In 1940 my father read de Gaulle's summons to the resistance," Georges recalled. "Then he called all his friends and said: 'I do not know de Gaulle, but I should follow him, because he is on the right track.' My father was very close to France, but not the France of Pétain."Tuyet-Tran, Mathilde,
Rencontres avec le prince Nguyễn Phúc Bảo Ngọc, alias Guy Georges Vinh San
" 2008 (French). A Vietnamese translation i
here
Duy Tân served with De Gaulle's Free French and died in a plane crash in 1945, cutting short a planned return to Vietnamese politics. Duy Tan was more popular than Emperor

and ranked higher in the genealogy of the Nguyễn Phúc clan.The clan genealogy ranks Duy Tan as "17.I" (head of the 17th generation) while Bảo Đại is "17.II." See ''Nguyễn Phúc tộc thế phả,'' pp. 325, 327. Bảo Đại's pro-Vichy government attempted to head off a claim to the throne by Georges by treating him as illegitimate. In 1946, a French court sided with Georges and declared him to be a legitimate son of Duy Tan. In 1987, Georges traveled to Hue, the former imperial capital, for the reburial of his father.Xuan Nham Thin,
Gặp những người con vua Duy Tân
" ''Thanh Nien'', Jan. 21, 2012. In 2016, he went to Hue to attend a family death anniversary. Georges was educated at Lycée Leconte-de-Lisle in Réunion and at Lycée Chasseloup-Laubat in Saigon. He served in the French Army from 1956 to 1967. He worked for the Directorate General of Customs and Excise at Orly Airport in 1969–1981 and later at St Denis de Réunion (1991–1996). Georges married Monique at Fort de France,

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, May 1954. He has one son, Patrick, and three daughters, Chantal, Annick, and Pascale.

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French/Vietnamese language interview
(2011) {{DEFAULTSORT:Vinh San, Georges 1933 births Living people People from Réunion Nguyen dynasty princes Pretenders to the Vietnamese throne Vietnamese expatriates in France Vietnamese monarchists Vietnamese anti-communists People from Saint-Denis, Réunion French people of Vietnamese descent People from Réunion of Vietnamese descent