Royal Profile: Prince Erik of Bourbon-Parma

Prince Erik of Bourbon-Parma was born 27 August 1953 as the second child and eldest son of Prince Michel of Bourbon-Parma and Princess Yolande de Broglie-Revel {Source}. He has one older sister, and four younger siblings (one of whom is a half-sister), as well as their families {Source}:

1. Princess Inès Marie Josephe Marguerite Yolande Tatiana of Bourbon-Parma (1952-1981)
1. Marie Mélodie de Bourbon (1977, grandfather adopted in 1982)
2. Princess Sybil Marie Josephine Anne Victorie of Bourbon-Parma (1954)
1. Craig Richards (m. 1997)
3. Princess Victoire Maria Pia Josephe Philippe Isaure of Bourbon-Parma (1957-2001)
1. Baron Ernst von Gecmen-Waldek (1943, m. 1977-div 1988)
1. Baroness Tatiana von Gecmen-Waldek (1974)
1. Michael Berger-Sandhofer (m. 1995)
2. Baron Vincent Nicholas von Gecmen-Waldek (1981)
2. Carlos Ernesto Rodriguez (m. 1993)
4. Prince Charles-Emmanuel Marie Joseph Jacques Hely of Bourbon-Parma (1961)
1. Constance de Ravinel (1971, m. 1991)
1. Prince Amaury Yves Michel Marie Joseph of Bourbon-Parma (1991)
2. Princess Charlotte Alexe Yolande Marie Joseph of Bourbon-Parma (1993)
3. Princess Elizabeth Flore Angélique Marie Joseph of Bourbon-Parma (1996)
4. Princess Zita Angélique Inès Marie Joseph of Bourbon-Parma (1999)
5. Amélie Le Bourgeois de Bourbon de Parme (1977)
1. Igor Bogdanoff (1949, m. 2009)
1. Alexandre Bogdanoff (2011)
2. Constantin Bogdanoff (2014)

His parents divorced in 1999, and her father remarried Princess Maria Pia of Savoy, thus Prince Erik gained the following step-siblings, step-siblings-in-law, step-nieces, step-nephews:

1. Prince Dimitri Umberto Anton Peter Maria of Yugoslavia (1958)
2. Prince Michael Nicolas Paul George Maria of Yugoslavia (1958)
3. Prince Sergius Wladimir Emanuel Marie of Yugoslavia (1963)
1. Sophia de Toledo (m. 1985-1986, div)
2. Eleonora Rajneri (m. 2004-2017?)
3. Christiane Galeotti (2017-present?)
1. Umberto Emmanuel Dimitri Karageorgevitch (2018)
4. Princess Helene Olga Lydia Tamara Maria of Yugoslavia (1963)
1. Thierry Alexandre Gaubert (m. 1987-1997/8?)
1. Milena Maria Pia Angelique Armaule Gaubert (1988)
2. Nastasia Marie José Tania Vanessa Isabelle Gaubert (1991)
3. Leopold Umberto Armand Michel Gaubert (1997)
2. Stanislas Fougeron (m. post 1997)

He married Countess Lydia Adelaide Maria Gräfin von Holstein-Ledreborg on 8 August 1980, they were divorced in 1999 after 19 years of marriage{Source}.Together, they have five children, a soon-to-be daughter-in-law and a granddaughter:

1. Princess Antonia Monique Charlotte Marie of Bourbon-Parma (1981)
2. Princess Marie Gabrielle Yolande Camilla Philippine of Bourbon-Parma (1982)
3. Princess Alexia Thérèse Sybille Eric Charles Marie of Bourbon-Parma (1985)
4. Prince Michel Knud John Marie Joseph of Bourbon-Parma (1989)
5. Prince Henri Luitpold Antoine Victor Marie Joseph of Bourbon-Parma (1991)
1. Archduchess Gabriella of Austria (1994, engaged 2017)
1. Victoria Antonia Marie-Astrid Lydia de Bourbon de Parme (2017)