Prince Michel of Bourbon-Parma

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Prince Michel
Michel of Bourbon-Parma in 1948
Born(1926-03-04)4 March 1926
Paris, France
Died7 July 2018(2018-07-07) (aged 92)
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Spouse
Princess Yolande de Broglie-Revel
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(m. 1951; div. 1999)​
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(m. 2003)​
IssuePrincess Inès
Prince Erik
Princess Sybil, Mrs. Richards
Princess Victoire, Mrs. Rodriguez
Prince Charles-Emmanuel
Princess Amelie
Names
Michel Marie Xavier Waldemar Georg Robert Karl Eymar
HouseBourbon-Parma
FatherPrince René of Bourbon-Parma
MotherPrincess Margaret of Denmark
ReligionRoman Catholicism

Prince Michel of Bourbon-Parma (Michel Marie Xavier Waldemar Georg Robert Karl Eymar de Bourbon-Parme; 4 March 1926 – 7 July 2018)

deposed sovereign royal and ducal House of Bourbon-Parma
.

He was a son of

Queen Anne of Romania.[2]

Biography

Prince Michel grew up in Paris,[3] where his father worked for a propane gas tank manufacturer. In 1940, Prince Michel and his family fled the German invasion and left for New York City,[4] where his mother worked in a hat shop. Michel was enrolled in a Jesuit school in Montreal, the Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf.[5]

Three years later, at age 17, he joined the U.S. Army with his father's permission, and was appointed lieutenant.[4] Serving in Operation Jedburgh, he was parachuted into Nazi-occupied France as part of a three-man sabotage team (with Maj. Tommy Macpherson and Sgt O. A. Brown) to operate deep behind German lines.[6]

After the liberation of France, Prince Michel was deployed to

Indochina in order to fight against the Viet Minh.[4] Dropped on 28 August 1945 by parachute, he was captured the same day by the Vietnamese resistance, who kept him for eleven months, during which his group of six captives attempted several escapes and were recaptured.[4] They were led from camp to camp through the dense jungle, bound together with strips of bamboo. Each lived on a bowl of rice a day. Toward the end of the ordeal, the men were asked to sign statements saying that they had been well treated, which they refused. Four of them were killed before the two survivors finally made it back to France due to the French negotiating a ceasefire agreement with the Viet Minh at the Geneva Conference. Prince Michel was one of 3000 prisoners to survive of the 12,000 French prisoners taken by the Viet Minh. A chevalier of France's Legion of Honour, for his services during war, he was also awarded the British Military Cross and the Croix de Guerre.[7]

Demobilized at the age of 20, the prince became a race car driver, participating in the Le Mans 24 Hours in 1964[8] and 1966. Both times his car failed to finish. In 1964, he also raced in the Tour de France Automobile where he finished second. At the Monaco Grand Prix in 1967, he was a nearby spectator when the Lorenzo Bandini accident occurred: With the help of a marshal he managed to extract the driver from the burning wreck of his Ferrari.

Prince Michel started civilian life at the age of 20, engaging in business over the following decades. He worked for a company that had created the

which?] with Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, until he was deposed in the Islamic revolution of 1979. In later life, he lived between his house in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France and his house in Palm Beach, Florida.[citation needed
]

Marriages and children

Following a civil wedding in Paris on 23 May 1951, on 9 June 1951, the thirtieth anniversary of his parents' wedding, he married religiously at Chaillot, Princess Yolande de Broglie-Revel (1928–2014), daughter of Prince Joseph de Broglie-Revel (1892–1963) and his wife, Marguerite de La Cour de Balleroy (1901-1976).[2][4]

Although the couple separated legally on 26 June 1966 and reconciled 19 December 1983,[7] the marriage ended in divorce in 1999.[4] They had five children together:[4]

Prince Michel had a daughter out of wedlock with Laure Le Bourgeois (born 1950):

In 2003 he married

Maria José of Belgium, who had divorced Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia
.

Ancestry

8.
Princess Adelaide of Löwenstein
1. Prince Michel of Bourbon-Parma
12. Christian IX of Denmark
6. Prince Valdemar of Denmark
13. Princess Louise of Hesse-Kassel
3. Princess Margaret of Denmark
14. Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres
7. Princess Marie of Orléans
15. Princess Françoise of Orléans

References

  1. ^ "Morto a Parigi il principe Michele di Borbone Parma - Gazzetta di Parma". Archived from the original on 9 July 2018. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
  2. ^
    ISBN 0-8063-5172-1
    .
  3. ^ Prince Michel profile; Palm Beach Daily News http://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/news/news/french-born-prince-and-part-time-palm-beacher-mich/nMC5Y/
  4. ^
    ISBN 2-9507974-3-1
  5. ISSN 1201-4710
    .
  6. ^ BBC News: Allied 'bandits' behind enemy lines http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8085383.stm
  7. ^
    ISBN 2-908003-04-X
  8. ^ Ford Anglia 105E - 1964 Monte Carlo Rally Report http://anglia-models.co.uk/race-1964-montewu.htm
  9. ^ a b c d "Descendants of King Christian IX of Denmark". Heinbruins. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
  10. ^ "Gabriella d'Autriche et Henri de Bourbon-Parme, mariage impérial au Tyrol" (in French). Point de vue. 23 September 2020. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  11. ^ "Prince Henri of Bourbon-Parma marries Archduchess Gabriella of Austria in glamorous European Royal Wedding". Tatler. 14 September 2020. Retrieved 14 September 2020.
  12. ^ "La nièce du Grand-Duc Henri a eu un bébé" (in French). L'Essentiel. 19 December 2017. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
  13. ^ "Erzherzogin Gabriellas Tochter" (in German). Luxemburger Wort. 20 December 2017. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
  14. ^ "Henri de Bourbon-Parme et Gabriella d'Autriche sont parents pour la seconde fois" (in French). Gala.fr. 6 September 2021. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
  15. ^ "Les fiançailles d'Amaury de Bourbon-Parme et de Pélagie de Mac Mahon". Point de vue (in French). 21 January 2023. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
  16. ^ "Fiançailles de Pélagie de Mac Mahon et le prince Amaury de Bourbon-Parme : "La tradition écossaise est à l'honneur"". Point de vue (in French). 7 April 2023. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
  17. ^ "Pélagie et Amaury de Bourbon Parme nous présentent leur fille Sybille". Point de Vue (in French). 21 March 2024. Retrieved 22 March 2024.
  18. ^ "Charlotte de Bourbon-Parme et Javier Valladares Urruela se sont mariés !". Point de vue (in French). 6 July 2022. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
  19. ^ a b Cariès, Françoise (30 September 2009). "Igor convole à Chambord". ladepeche.fr (in French). Retrieved 8 September 2023.

Bibliography

  • (in French) Michel de Bourbon, En parachute, Presses de la Cité, 1949 ASIN B0000DPIAZ
  • (in Danish) Michel de Bourbon, Faldskaermsjaeger : Fra den franske maquis til Indo-Kinas jungle, Hasselbalch, 1949
  • (in French) Michel de Bourbon-Parme et Jean-Louis Tremblay, Un prince dans la tourmente, Nimrod, 2010
    ISBN 291524328X
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