Royal Profile: Princess Maria Beatrice of Savoy
Princess Maria Beatrice Elena Margerita Ludovica Caterina Francesca of Savoy was born 2 February 1944) is the youngest daughter of Italy's last King, Umberto II of Italy and Queen Marie José of Italy {Source}. She has the following siblings, siblings-in-law, nieces, nephews, nieces and nephews-in-law, and great nieces and great nephews {Source}:
When she was three years old, her father ruled Italy as Umberto II for slightly over a month, from 9 May 1946 to 12 June 1946 before the family was forced into exile. Her father remained in Portugal, while she, her mother and siblings traveled to Switzerland during WWII.
She has not been without controversy. In 1967, she attempted to marry Italian actor Maurizo Arena, but her family filed a lawsuit claiming that she was mentally unfit to marry, which was later dropped when the couple parted a year later {Source}. The young princess, known as Titti, married Luis Rafael Reyna-Corvalán y Dillon on 1 April 1970 in Mexico in a civil ceremony, later marrying religiously in Spain in 1971 {Source}. After twenty-four years of marriage, they were separated and later divorced {Source}. Together, they have three children, and two granddaughters:
- Princess Maria Pia Louise of Savoy (1934)
- Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia (m. 1955-1967, div)
- Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia (1958)
- Prince Michael of Yugoslavia (1958)
- Prince Sergius Wladimir Emanuel Marie of Yugoslavia (1963)
- Princess Helene Olga Lydia Tamara Maria of Yugoslavia (1963)
- Thierry Gaubert (m. 1988)
- Milena Maria-Pia Angelique Armaule Gaubert (1988)
- Nastasia Marie-José Tania Vanessa Isabelle Gaubert (1991)
- Leopold Umberto Armand Michel Gaubert (1997)
- Prince Michel of Bourbon-Parma (m. 2003)
- Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples (1937)
- Marina, Princess of Naples (1935, m. 1971)
- Emanuele Filiberto, Prince of Venice (1972)
- Clotilde, Princess of Venice (1972)
- Princess Vittoria of Savoy (2003)
- Princess Luisa of Savoy (2006)
- two adopted sons
- Princess Maria Gabriella of Savoy (1940)
- Robert Zellinger de Balkany (1931-2015, m. 1969, div 1990)
- Marie Elizabeth Zellinger de Balkany (1972)
- Olivier Janssens (1964, m. 2002)
- Gabriella Luise Maria Janssens (2004)
- Tommaso Janssens (2005)
- Paul-Louis Janssens ( 2009)
- Victor Janssens (2014)
When she was three years old, her father ruled Italy as Umberto II for slightly over a month, from 9 May 1946 to 12 June 1946 before the family was forced into exile. Her father remained in Portugal, while she, her mother and siblings traveled to Switzerland during WWII.
She has not been without controversy. In 1967, she attempted to marry Italian actor Maurizo Arena, but her family filed a lawsuit claiming that she was mentally unfit to marry, which was later dropped when the couple parted a year later {Source}. The young princess, known as Titti, married Luis Rafael Reyna-Corvalán y Dillon on 1 April 1970 in Mexico in a civil ceremony, later marrying religiously in Spain in 1971 {Source}. After twenty-four years of marriage, they were separated and later divorced {Source}. Together, they have three children, and two granddaughters:
- Rafael Humberto Lupo Corvalán-Reyna y de Saboya 1970-1994)
- Margaret Beatty Tyler (b.1966, engaged, did not marry)
- Uriel Tyler (1994)
- Patrizio Corvalán-Reyna y de Saboya (1971–1971)
- Azaea Beatrice Corvalán-Reyna y de Saboya (1973)
- Arturo Pando y Mundet (1973, m 1996, later divorced)
- Marie José Pando y Corvalán-Reyna (1996)
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