Princess Diana Margherita of Bourbon-Parma (''Diane Marguerite de Bourbon-Parme'' in
French
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; 22 May 1932 – 4 May 2020) was a French aristocrat and member of the
House of Bourbon-Parma, a
cadet branch of the
Spanish royal family
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Biography
Princess Diana was born in
Paris on 22 May 1932 to
Prince Gaetano of Bourbon-Parma, the youngest child of
Robert I, Duke of Parma and
Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal, and Princess Margarete von
Thurn und Taxis, the youngest child of
Prince Alessandro, 1st Duke of Castel Duino and Princess Marie de
Ligne. On 15 March 1955 she married Prince Franz Josef Hubertus Maria Meinrad Michael of
Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, son of
Frederick, Prince of Hohenzollern
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, in a civil ceremony London.
[ They later had a Catholic ceremony on 16 April 1955 in Krauchenwies. She gave birth to a son, Alexander, in 1957.][Nuevo luto en la familia de Borbón-Parma: la princesa Diana, fallecida por coronavirus]
The divorce was finalized on 19 January 1961 in Stuttgart
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.[ On 21 March 1961 she married her son's biological father, Hans Joachim Oehmichen, in Stuttgart.][ They had two more children, Gaetano and Maria, and had their marriage consecrated in the Catholic Church in 1992. Her first marriage was officially annulled by the Catholic Church on 17 January 1980.][ Her second husband died in 1995.
Princess Diana died in Bad Krozingen, Germany on 4 May 2020 from COVID-19.
]
References
1932 births
2020 deaths
French people of German descent
French people of Italian descent
French people of Portuguese descent
French Roman Catholics
French expatriates in Germany
Princesses of Bourbon-Parma
Princesses of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany
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