Jorge de Bagration y de Mukhrani or Giorgi Bagration-Mukhraneli or George Bagration of Mukhrani (Georgian: გიორგი (ხორხე) ბაგრატიონ-მუხრანელი) (February 22, 1944 – January 16, 2008) was a Spanish racing car driver of Georgian descent and a claimant to the headship of the Royal House of Georgia.
Jorge was born in Rome, Italy, in 1944 to the family of a Georgian émigré Prince Irakli Bagration-Mukhraneli, a descendant of the Mukhraneli branch of the...
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Jorge de Bagration y de Mukhrani or Giorgi Bagration-Mukhraneli or George Bagration of Mukhrani (Georgian: გიორგი (ხორხე) ბაგრატიონ-მუხრანელი) (February 22, 1944 – January 16, 2008) was a Spanish racing car driver of Georgian descent and a claimant to the headship of the Royal House of Georgia.
Jorge was born in Rome, Italy, in 1944 to the family of a Georgian émigré Prince Irakli Bagration-Mukhraneli, a descendant of the Mukhraneli branch of the Bagrationi royal family of Georgia. His father, Prince Irakli Bagration, had gone into exile in Italy following the Bolshevik Revolution, but retained his claim to the throne of Georgia.
His Italian mother Maria Antonietta Pasquini, daughter of Ugo, Count di Costafiorita, died giving birth to him. In 1946, the widowed Prince Irakli married Princess Maria de las Mercedes de Baviera y Borbón (1911-1953), daughter of the German Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria who had been naturalised as a Spanish infante, and granddaughter of King Alfonso XII of...
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