[[File:Emanuela de Dampierre y Ruspoli, duquesa de Segovia.jpg|thumb|Emmanuelle de Dampierre in 1972 at the wedding of her eldest son, [[Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz|Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cadiz]].]]
[[File:Emanuela de Dampierre y Ruspoli, duquesa de Segovia.jpg|thumb|Emmanuelle de Dampierre in 1972 at the wedding of her eldest son, [[Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz|Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cadiz]].]]
== Titles, styles and honours ==
==== Spain ====
* 8 November 1913 – 4 March 1935: ”Donna” Emmanuelle de Dampierre
* 4 March 1935 – 3 May 2012: ”Her Excellency” The Duchess of Segovia, Grandee of Spain
** ”Her Excellency” Emmanuelle de Dampierre, Grandee of Spain<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.agapea.com/libros/Memorias-Emanuela-de-Dampierre-9788497341417-i.htm |title=MEMORIAS. EMANUELA DE DAMPIERRE – BEGOÑA ARANGUREN – 9788497341417}}</ref>
==== France (Legitimists) ====
* 8 November 1913 – 3 March 1935: Mademoiselle Emmanuelle de Dampierre<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kerrebrouck |first=Patrick van |url=https://www.google.fr/books/edition/La_maison_de_Bourbon/fL4iAQAAIAAJ?hl=fr&gbpv=1&bsq=La+maison+de+Bourbon+:+1256-2004&dq=La+maison+de+Bourbon+:+1256-2004&printsec=frontcover |title=La maison de Bourbon: 1256-2004 |date=2004 |publisher=Patrick van Kerrebrouck |isbn=978-2-9501509-0-5 |language=fr}}</ref>
* 4 March 1935 – 29 September 1936: ”Her Serene Highness” The Duchess of Segovia, Grandee of Spain
* 29 September 1936 – 6 September 1938: ”Her Royal Highness” The Duchess of Segovia, Grandee of Spain
* 6 September 1938 – 28 February 1941: ”Her Royal Highness” The Dauphine of France
* 28 February 1941 – 20 March 1975: ”Her Royal Highness” The Duchess of Anjou and Segovia
* 20 March 1975 – 3 May 2012: ”Her Royal Highness” The Dowager Duchess of Anjou and Segovia
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French aristocrat
Emmanuelle de Dampierre (Victoire Jeanne Emmanuelle Joséphine Pierre Marie; 8 November 1913 – 3 May 2012) was a French-Italian[2] aristocrat and a member of the Spanish royal family. Her husband, Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia, was the second son of King Alfonso XIII and the Legitimist pretender to the former French throne. While she and Infante Jaime divorced in 1947 and each subsequently married a second time, their divorce was not recognized by the Spanish and French governments nor by the Catholic Church.
Emanuela was born on 8 November 1913 at the Palazzo Ruspoli, her maternal family’s palace on the Via del Corso in Rome. She was the eldest daughter of the French nobleman Roger de Dampierre, 2nd Duke of San Lorenzo Nuovo, Vicomte de Dampierre and the Italian noblewoman and HSH, the painter Princess Vittoria Emilia Ipsycrathea Agricola Ruspoli, a daughter of Emanuele Ruspoli, 1st Prince of Poggio Suasa.[3][4] Both her maternal and paternal families were part of the Papal nobility. She grew up in Paris until her parents divorced in 1930, at which time she returned with her mother to the Palazzo Ruspoli to live with her grandmother Josephine, Princess of Poggio Suasa.
On 4 March 1935, she married Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia, a member of the Spanish royal family, at the Church of Sant’Ignazio in Rome.[5] The marriage was arranged by their parents.[6] Her husband, the son of King Alfonso XIII, was born deaf and mute, and had had to relinquish his rights to the Spanish throne.[5] Although he renounced his rights to the Spanish throne,[7] her husband was the Legitimist claimant to the former French throne and was granted the Dukedom of Segovia by his father.[5][3] They had two sons:
In 1947, Emanuelle and Infante Jaime divorced in Bucharest.[5] She married a second time to Antonio Sozzani, a Milanese stockbroker, in Vienna.[5] She and Sozzani divorced in 1967.[5] While her first divorce was legally recognized in Italy, it was not recognized by the Catholic Church nor by the Spanish and French governments.[5][3]
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Later life and death
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From 1947 until her death in 2012, Emmanuelle was considered, both in Spain, in France and in many European courts, to be the true wife of the Infante.[3]
The 1980s were a very difficult period for Emmanuelle. After three years of separation, her eldest son, Alfonso, and his wife divorced in 1982. Two years later, in 1984, a serious car accident claimed the life of the Duke’s eldest son, François de Bourbon (1972-1984), while Alfonso and his second son were seriously injured. Finally, in 1989, Alfonso died of a serious neck injury in a skiing accident in the United States. Many years later, in 2000, Emmanuelle’s youngest son, Gonzalo, died from leukemia.
In 2003, Emanuelle published a memoir titled Memorias: Esposa y madre de los Borbones que pudieron reinar en España.[3][8]
Emmanuelle, called Madame, and her husband used the French Royal coat of arms.[2]
She died on 3 May 2012 in Rome following a long-term illness.[5] She was buried in the Dampierre family vault at the Passy Cemetery in Paris.[3]
Titles, styles and honours
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- 8 November 1913 – 4 March 1935: Donna Emmanuelle de Dampierre
- 4 March 1935 – 3 May 2012: Her Excellency The Duchess of Segovia, Grandee of Spain
- Her Excellency Emmanuelle de Dampierre, Grandee of Spain[9]
France (Legitimists)
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- 8 November 1913 – 3 March 1935: Mademoiselle Emmanuelle de Dampierre[10]
- 4 March 1935 – 29 September 1936: Her Serene Highness The Duchess of Segovia, Grandee of Spain
- 29 September 1936 – 6 September 1938: Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Segovia, Grandee of Spain
- 6 September 1938 – 28 February 1941: Her Royal Highness The Dauphine of France
- 28 February 1941 – 20 March 1975: Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Anjou and Segovia
- 20 March 1975 – 3 May 2012: Her Royal Highness The Dowager Duchess of Anjou and Segovia
National
- Foreign
- ^ Although Emmanuelle and Jaime, Duke of
Segovia were divorced in 1947, the separation had been a civil one. Thus, in the eyes of the Legitimists, Emmanuelle remained Jaime’s de jure consort until his death in 1975 - ^ a b Affonso, Domingos de Araújo (1961). Le sang de Louis XIV (in French). Livraria Cruz.
- ^ a b c d e f g h “La tragedia de Emanuela Dampierre, suegra de Carmen Martínez-Bordiú: boda forzada, infidelidad y dos dramáticas muertes”. Mujer Hoy. July 29, 2024.
- ^ “Milestones, Mar. 11, 1935”. Time. 11 March 1935. Archived from the original on 15 January 2011. Retrieved 2011-05-25.
Married. Don Jaime, 26, second son of ex-King Alfonso XIII of Spain; and Emanuela de Dampierre. 20, granddaughter of Princess Ruspoli Poggio di Suasa, (née Josephine Curtis of Boston); in Rome. Born a deaf-mute, Don Jaime has learned to speak croakingly.
- ^ a b c d e f g h “Fallece en Roma Emmanuella de Dampierre, abuela de Luis Alfonso de Borbón”. Diario ABC. May 3, 2012.
- ^ “Emmanuella Dampierre, una mujer de armas tomar”. Diario ABC. May 5, 2012.
- ^ Urbiola, Fermin J. (May 3, 2012). “Emmanuella de Dampierre, una vida de desgracias”. El País – via elpais.com.
- ^ Begoña Aranguren, Emanuela de Dampierre, Memorias: Esposa y madre de los Borbones que pudieron reinar en España (Madrid: Esfera, 2003), 105.
- ^ MEMORIAS. EMANUELA DE DAMPIERRE – BEGOÑA ARANGUREN – 9788497341417.
- ^ Kerrebrouck, Patrick van (2004). La maison de Bourbon: 1256-2004 (in French). Patrick van Kerrebrouck. ISBN 978-2-9501509-0-5.
