Princess Barbie and the romance which could make her queen: Teen royals steam up St. Tropez
15.08.2023 - 19:51
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Woman’s Day even claims that Chiara has already met the indomitable Danish queen who is apparently keeping a close eye on her grandson and eventual heir. Quite what she will make of Chiara and her family will be interesting to learn.
She has, after all, welcomed commoners into the family – Christian’s mother Mary, the Crown Princess of Denmark, is an Australian who met Frederik, the heir to the Danish throne in a Sydney pub when he was there to watch the 2000 summer Olympics. Chiara, however, is very definitely a member of a royal family – even if it is a distinctly Ruritanian one.
The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies was the largest sovereign state in Italy before the country was unified in 1861. The island of Sicily and a large area surrounding Naples were split between two crowns during the middle ages, and when the Spanish Bourbon royal family took over both kingdoms in 1816, it became the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
The Bourbons were deposed and exiled in 1861, meaning Chaira does not have her own palace, although the family are now regular visitors and treated as VIPs. There is, however, a dispute over who exactly is head of the Bourbon Two-Sicilies family, something Queen Margarethe might want to take into account for her grandson.
Despite the lack of palace or lands, the family cannot agree whether Princess Barbie’s father, Prince Ranieri, Duke of Castro, is the head of the royal house, or if it is his second cousin once removed, Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Calabria. (Their more distant Bourbon cousins include Spain’s King Felipe VI.)The Duke of Castro, Chiara’s father, has also only sired girls and he has said that he will change the family rules of primogeniture history by leaving his title to a woman – Chiara’s big
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