Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia
Jaime de Borbón y Battenberg, KG, full name Jaime Luitpold Isabelino Enrique Alberto Alfonso Victor Acacio Pedro Maria de Borbon y Battenberg ( born June 23, 1908 in Segovia, Spain, † March 20, 1975 in St. Gallen, Switzerland ) was Duke of Segovia, and later Duke of Anjou and Segovia.
Life
Jaime was the second son of the Spanish King Alfonso XIII. (1886-1941) and his wife Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg (1887-1969), daughter of Prince Henry Maurice of Battenberg and Princess Beatrice of Great Britain and Ireland. Paternal His grandparents were King Alfonso XII. and his second wife Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria.
On March 4, 1935 Jaime married in Rome, the French Princess Victoire Jeanne Joséphine Pierre Marie Emmanuelle ( 1913-2012 ), daughter of Roger de Dampierre ( 1892-1975 ), 2nd Duke de San Lorenzo and his wife Princess Vittoria Ruspoli (1892 - 1982). The marriage had two sons:
- Alfonso Jaime Marcelino Manuel Victor Maria (1936-1989), Duke of Anjou and Cádiz
- Gonzalo Victor Alfonso José Bonifacio Antonio Maria y Todos los Santos (1937-2000), Duke of Aquitaine
The marriage with Princess Emanuela was divorced in 1947 in Bucharest; However, the marriage remained in the eyes of the Roman Catholic Church and are made with the French legitimist. On August 3, 1949 Jaime married in Innsbruck the East Prussian singer Charlotte Auguste Luise Thiedemann ( 1919-1979 ), his second wife.
Don Jaime was deaf after an operation in his childhood; In 1933 he gave a waiver to the Spanish throne and received the title of Duke of Segovia. 1941 proclaimed the legitimists him as the rightful heir to the throne of France, as well as the head of the French branch of the House of Bourbon. From 1957, he signed all documents with Jacques Henri II.
On December 6, 1949, he took his resignation back to the Spanish throne. In 1964 he took the title of Duke of Madrid and was regarded by the Carlists as Gegenprätendent to Prince Franz Xavier of Bourbon- Parma, Duke of Molina. On July 19, 1969 Don Jaime finally renounced the Spanish throne in favor of his nephew, the current Spanish King Juan Carlos I.
Don Jaime died on March 20, 1975 in St. Gallen and was buried in the Basilica of Saint- Denis; 1985 his body after Real Sitio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial was transferred and rests in the crypt of the Pantheon of Infantes.