Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma and Piacenza (born 8 April 1930 in Paris, France) is the current titular duke of Parma and the head of the House of Bourbon-Parma (a branch of the House of Bourbon). Carlos Hugo is also known as having been a Carlist pretender to the throne of Spain under the name Carlos VIII.
He was baptized Hugues Marie Sixte Robert Louis Jean Georges Benoît Michel. On 28 June 1963 he was officially renamed Charles Hugues, by judgemen...
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Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma and Piacenza (born 8 April 1930 in Paris, France) is the current titular duke of Parma and the head of the House of Bourbon-Parma (a branch of the House of Bourbon). Carlos Hugo is also known as having been a Carlist pretender to the throne of Spain under the name Carlos VIII.
He was baptized Hugues Marie Sixte Robert Louis Jean Georges Benoît Michel. On 28 June 1963 he was officially renamed Charles Hugues, by judgement of the court of appeal of la Seine, France. He was a French citizen, and since 1980 a naturalized Spanish citizen.
His marriage to Princess Irene of the Netherlands in 1964 caused a constitutional crisis in The Netherlands.
Carlos Hugo is the son of Xavier, Duke of Parma and Madeleine de Bourbon-Busset. In 1977, his father died, and Carlos Hugo succeeded him as Duke of Parma.
As duke of Parma, he claims the headship of the Constantinian Order of Saint George, although it was not tied to the ducal throne of Parma, but is adjudicated by the...
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