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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

House

Bourbon

Father

Prince Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou

Mother

María Margarita Vargas Santaella

French royal family Legitimist

The Duke of Anjou The Duchess of Anjou The Madame Royale The Duke of Burgundy The Duke of Berry The Duke of Touraine The Dowager Duchess of Anjou
Extended royal family The Dowager Duchess of Aquitaine Princess Stephanie
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Princess Eugénie de Jésus of Bourbon, 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 and head of the House of Bourbon. A great-great granddaughter of King Alfonso XIII of Spain she is a relative of the Spanish royal family.

Early life and family

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. She is a member of the House of Bourbon and is accorded by Legitimists as the Madame Royale. Her maternal grandfather is the Venezuelan banker Victor Vargas. Her paternal grandfather, Prince Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz, was a grandson of King Alfonso XIII of Spain and Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg. Her paternal grandmother, Carmen Martínez-Bordiú, is the daughter of the 10th Marquis of Villaverde and the 1st Duchess of Franco and the granddaughter of former Spanish general and dictator Francisco Franco. While her titles have no legal standing in France, they are recognized by the Holy See.

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.

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

Personal life

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. She opened the ball with a father-daughter waltz. 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. The tiara was rented from V Muse, the ball's jewelry sponsor. She was escorted by Archduke Karl-Konstantin von Habsburg. 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.