And today we bring you HRH Louis Alphonse de Bourbon, duc d'Anjou, aka Luis Alfonso Gonzalo Víctor Emanuel Marco de Borbón y Martínez-Bordiú.
French Royal Arms of the House of Bourbon from Wikipedia Commons
Louis Alphonse was born on 25 April 1974 in Madrid. He is the great-grandson of King Alfonso XIII of Spain and first cousin once removed of King Juan Carlos I of Spain (and, on his mother's side, also great-grandson of Francisco Franco).Among the Legitimist party who adhere to the elder branch of the Bourbon dynasty, he is deemed the pretender to the French throne (and would reign as Louis XX). The French courts have recognized his right to the title Duc d'Anjou in spite of the protests of the Orléanist branch. He is considered the senior legitimate representative of the House of Capet since the death of his father in 1989.
In addition to France, he has claims to the thrones of Jerusalem (yes, that unfortunate period known as the Crusades and all that) and Navarre.
In France his supporters style him: "Sire, Louis, 20e du nom,par la grâce de Dieu Roi de France, de Navarre et des terres d'Outremer".
Sire, Louis, 20th of that name, by the grace of God King of France,
of Navarre, and of the Lands Beyond the Sea
(source, which is a yahoo group dedicated to him)
"A King without a Throne"(photo source)
(Now this pic makes me think of one of my teddy bears: His Orthodox Majesty Maximiliano Cuauhtémoc Juárez Primo, Emperor of El Cerrito, Archduke of Hercules, and Margrave of the Great River. He is knows as "Cocoa" to his friends. This man is too cute for all those titles, and I haven't even listed all of them.)
Louis Alphonse and Margarita had their first child, a daughter, named Eugenia on March 5, 2007 at Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami, Florida. She was baptised at the papal nunciature in Paris in June 2007. French legitimists recognise her as Princess Eugenie of Bourbon; in Spain her name is Doña Eugenia de Borbón y Vargas. [Wikipedia]
