Princess Diana of Bourbon-Parma

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Princess Diana
Princess Franz Josef of Hohenzollern
Born(1932-05-22)22 May 1932
Paris, French Third Republic
Died4 May 2020(2020-05-04) (aged 87)
Bad Krozingen, Germany
Burial
Bad Krozingen
Spouses
Prince Franz Josef of Hohenzollern
(m. 1955; div. 1961)
Hans Joachim Oehmichen
(m. 1961; died 1995)
IssueAlexander Oehmichen
Gaetano Oehmichen
Maria Oehmichen
Names
Diane Marguerite de Bourbon-Parme
HouseBourbon-Parma
FatherPrince Gaetano of Bourbon-Parma
MotherPrincess Margarete of Thurn und Taxis

Princess Diana Margherita of Bourbon-Parma (Diane Marguerite de Bourbon-Parme in French; 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.[1]

Biography

Princess Diana was born in

Thurn und Taxis, the youngest child of Prince Alessandro, 1st Duke of Castel Duino and Princess Marie de Ligne.[citation needed] On 15 March 1955 she married Prince Franz Josef Hubertus Maria Meinrad Michael of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, son of Frederick, Prince of Hohenzollern, in a civil ceremony London.[2] They later had a Catholic ceremony on 16 April 1955 in Krauchenwies. She gave birth to a son, Alexander, in 1957.[2] She and Prince Franz Josef divorced in 1961 after it was revealed that the prince was not Alexander's biological father.[3] The divorce was finalized on 19 January 1961 in Stuttgart.[2] On 21 March 1961 she married her son's biological father, Hans Joachim Oehmichen, in Stuttgart.[2] 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.[3][2]
Her second husband died in 1995.

Princess Diana died from COVID-19 in Bad Krozingen, Germany on 4 May 2020.

References

  1. ^ "¿Quién es la última princesa fallecida por coronavirus y cuál es su vínculo con la Familia Real española?" [Who is the last princess who died of coronavirus and what is her link with the Spanish Royal Family?]. El Mundo (in Spanish). 7 May 2020. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d e Lundy, Darryl. "Diane Marguerite di Borbone, Principessa di Parma". The Peerage. Darryl Lundy. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
  3. ^ a b Nuevo luto en la familia de Borbón-Parma: la princesa Diana, fallecida por coronavirus (in Spanish)