Prince Michel de Bourbon-Parma is profiled in today's Palm Beach Post. The prince, who is the brother-in-law of King Michael of Roumania, and his second wife, Princess Maria Pia of Savoy, divide their time between homes in Paris and in Palm Beach, near the Breakers Hotel.
This is the most interesting of paragraphs: "He started spending winters in Florida and 10 years ago bought his current home off The Breakers golf course with his second wife, Maria Pia. (They have seven children between them: She has four and he has three.)" Oops.
Princess Maria Pia is the mother of two sets of twins, Princes Dimitri and Michel and Princess Helen and Prince Serge, born during her first marriage to Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia. However, Princess Maria Pia and Prince Michel were already involved when she gave birth to the second set of twins.
Prince Michel and his first wife, Princess Yolande de Broglie-Revel have had five children: Erik (1953), Inés (1952-1981), Sybil (1954), Victoire (1957-2001) and Charles-Emmanuel (1961). Prince Michel is also the father of a daughter, Amélie de Bourbon-Parme by Laure Le Bourgeois. Amélie was born in 1977.
Maria Pia's first set of twins was born in 1958, and the second set was born in 1963.
http://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/news/french-born-prince-and-part-time-palm-beacher-1356162.html?viewAsSinglePage=true
3 comments:
I suspect they arrived at the "he has 3 children" figure by [1] only counting living children (Ines died in 1981, Victoire died in 2001) and [2] not counting Amelie, even though she was recognized and has taken the surname Bourbon-Parme (1997), because they were only thinking of children born in marriage.
And wasn't Ines's daughter Marie Melodie adopted by Michel following Ines's death as well?
Really, one needs an abacus. You could argue for a figure between 3 and 9, depending on your criteria.
Victoire died in 2001 of what?
cancer
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