Princess Maria da Glória, Duchess of Segorbe


Princess Dona Maria da Glória of Orléans-Bragança, Duchess of Segorbe, Countess of Rivadavia is a descendant of the Brazilian Imperial Family and the second wife of the Duke of Segorbe. She is also the former wife of Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia.

Life and marriages

Born at Petrópolis, Brazil, she is the daughter of Prince Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza and Princess Maria de la Esperanza of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. She is the first cousin of Juan Carlos I of Spain.
On 1 July 1972, she married Alexander, former Crown Prince of Yugoslavia, at Villamanrique de la Condesa, near Seville, Spain. They divorced on 19 February 1985. She has three sons from her first marriage:
On 24 October 1985, she married Ignacio de Medina y Fernández de Córdoba, 19th Duke of Segorbe, son of Victoria Eugenia Fernández de Córdoba, 18th Duchess of Medinaceli at Seville. It was also his second marriage, as he was previously married to Mercedes Maier y Allende, granddaughter of former Wimbledon mixed doubles champion Enrique Maier. Maria da Gloria and Ignacio have two daughters:
, the Duchess of Segorbe is a great-great-granddaughter of Emperor Pedro II of Brazil. Patrilineally, she is a great-great-great-granddaughter of Louis Philippe, King of the French. She is also a matrilineal 9th-generation descendant of Marie Leszczyńska, Queen consort of Louis XV of France, through an almost-three-century-long unbroken line of eight Bourbon princesses, each of whom married into their own dynasty, as follows:
Marie Leszczyńska, Queen of France → Louise Élisabeth of France, Duchess of Parma → Maria Luisa of Parma, Queen of Spain → Maria Isabella of Spain, Queen of the Two Sicilies → Maria Cristina of the Two Sicilies, Queen Regent of Spain → Infanta Luisa Fernanda of Spain, Duchess of Montpensier → Princess Marie Isabelle d'Orléans, Infanta of Spain, Countess of Paris → Princess Louise d'Orléans, Princess of the Two Sicilies → Princess Maria de la Esperanza of the Two Sicilies, Princess of Orléans-Braganza → Princess Maria da Glória of Orléans-Braganza, sometime Crown Princess of Yugoslavia, Duchess of Segorbe.