Princess Inés of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duchess of Syracuse, GE (born 18 February 1940) is a Spanish princess, the youngest child of Infante Alfonso, heir to the throne of the Two Sicilies, and Infanta Alicia.[4][5][6]
Princess Inés intended to contract a forbidden marriage, according to her house laws, with Luis de Morales y Aguado (born 8 October 1933), a Spaniard who was a commoner.[citation needed]
After the death of her father in 1964, and with persistence, she eventually married, in a ceremony that took place in San Jeronimo del Real, 30 January 1965. In the media, she was referred to as "the last great-grandchild of Alfonso XII of Spain". Both her cousin Prince Juan Carlos and his wife Princess Sofía attended, as well as the most distinguished Gotha of Europe.[10]
Issue
The couple had five children :
Isabel de Morales y Borbón-Dos Sicilias (born 10 April 1966),[11] married to Joaquín Galán y Otamendi,[12] with two daughters:
Carlota Galán y Morales de Borbón-Dos Sicilias (born March 1998)[13]
Inés Galán y Morales de Borbón-Dos Sicilias (born 3 January 2000)[14]
Eugenia de Morales y Borbón-Dos Sicilias (born 14 December 1967),[15] married to Iñigo Valdenebro y García de Polavieja,[16] with three children
Sonia de Morales y Borbón-Dos Sicilias (9 December 1969 – 26 July 2022),[17] married to Alejandro García-Atance y Leurquin (born 1974),[18] with two children
Manuel de Morales y Borbón-Dos Sicilias (born 16 December 1971),[19] married to Emma Ruiz de Azcárate y García de Lomas,[20] with two children
Mencía de Morales y Borbón-Dos Sicilias (born 25 November 1975)[21]
^Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Fürstliche Häuser Band XV. "Spanien". C.A. Starke, Limburg an der Lahn, 1997, pp. 103-105. (German). ISBN3-7980-0814-0.
^Enache, Nicolas. La Descendance de Marie-Therese de Habsburg. ICC, Paris, 1996. pp. 523-525, 527. (French). ISBN2-908003-04-X