Princess Maria da Glória of Brazil

Princess Maria da Glória of Brazil, Duchess of Segorbe, Countess of Rivadavia (Maria da Glória Henriqueta Dolores Lúcia Miguela Rafaela Gabriela Gonzaga of Orléans-Braganza; born 13 December 1946) is a Princess of Brazil, Princess of Orléans-Braganza and the second wife of the Duke of Segorbe, a Grandee of Spain. She is also the former wife of Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia.

Life and marriages
Born at Petrópolis, Brazil, she is the daughter of Pedro Gastão, Prince of Orléans-Braganza (1913–2007) and Princess Maria de la Esperanza of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1914–2005). She is the first cousin of King Juan Carlos I of Spain.

On 1 July 1972, she married Alexander, 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:


 * Peter, Hereditary Prince of Serbia (born 1980).


 * Prince Philip of Serbia (born 1982). He married Danica Marinković (born 1986) on 7 October 2017 at the Cathedral Church of Saint Michael the Archangel in Belgrade, Serbia. They have a son:
 * Prince Stefan of Serbia (born on 25 February 2018 in Belgrade).


 * Prince Alexander of Serbia (born 1982).

On 24 October 1985, she married Ignacio de Medina y Fernández de Córdoba, 19th Duke of Segorbe (in 2003 20th Count of Rivadavia), son of Victoria Eugenia Fernández de Córdoba, 18th Duchess of Medinaceli at Seville. With him, she has two daughters:
 * Sol María de la Blanca de Medina y Orléans-Braganza, 54th Countess of Ampurias (born 1986), heiress apparent to the Segorbe dukedom.
 * Ana Luna de Medina y Orléans-Braganza, 17th Countess of Ricla (born 1988).

Titles and styles

 * 1946–1972: Her Royal Highness Princess Maria da Glória of Brazil
 * 1972–1985: Her Royal Highness The Crown Princess of Yugoslavia
 * 1985–2003: Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Segorbe
 * 2003–present: Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Segorbe, Countess of Rivadavia

Ancestry
Dynastically, 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.