{{short description|French aristocrat}} {{Infobox royalty | name = Emmanuelle de Dampierre | title = Duchess of Segovia and Anjou (more) | image = Duchesse.Segovie.IMG 4066.jpg | image_size = 230px | caption = Emmanuelle around 1942 | succession = Consort of the Legitimist pretender to the French throne | reign = 28 February 1941 – 20 March 1975<ref>Although Emmanuelle and Jaime, Duke of Segovia were divorced in 1947, the separation had been a civil one. Thus, in the eyes of the Legitimists, Emmanuelle remained Jaime's de jure consort until his death in 1975</ref> | reign-type = Pretense | full name = {{langx|fr|Victoire Jeanne Emmanuelle Joséphine Pierre Marie}} <br> {{langx|es|Victoria Juana Emanuela Josefina Petra María de Dampierre y Ruspoli}} | birth_date = {{Birth date|1913|11|8|df=y}} | birth_place = Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome, Italy | death_date = {{Death date and age|2012|5|3|1913|11|8|df=y}} | death_place = Palazzo Massimo di Pirro, Rome, Italy | burial_place = Passy Cemetery | spouse = {{plainlist| * {{marriage|Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia|4 March 1935|6 May 1947|end=div}} * {{marriage|Antonio Sozzani|1949|1967|end=div}} }} | issue = Prince Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz<br />Prince Gonzalo, Duke of Aquitaine | house = House of Dampierre (by birth)<br>House of Bourbon (by marriage) | father = Roger, 2nd Duke of San Lorenzo Nuovo, Vicomte de Dampierre | mother = Princess Vittoria Ruspoli | religion = Roman Catholic }}
'''Emmanuelle de Dampierre''' (''Victoire Jeanne Emmanuelle Joséphine Pierre Marie''; 8 November 1913 – 3 May 2012) was a French-Italian<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Affonso |first=Domingos de Araújo |url=https://www.google.fr/books/edition/Le_sang_de_Louis_XIV/k1rfz-c1-twC?hl=fr&gbpv=1&bsq=Jaime+dampierre+nationalit%C3%A9+fran%C3%A7aise&dq=Jaime+dampierre+nationalit%C3%A9+fran%C3%A7aise&printsec=frontcover |title=Le sang de Louis XIV |date=1961 |publisher=Livraria Cruz |language=fr}}</ref> aristocrat. She was the wife of Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia, the second son of King Alfonso XIII and Queen Ena. She was the mother of Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz and Gonzalo, Duke of Aquitaine<ref>{{Cite book |last=Pike |first=Charlotte |title=Almanach de Gotha 1998 |publisher=John Kennedy |year=1998 |isbn=9780953214204 |location=London |pages=Page 244 |trans-title=Almanach of Gotha 1998.}}</ref>.
The daughter of the 2nd Duke of San Lorenzo Nuovo, she became by marriage the consort of the Legitimist pretender to the French throne, and a sister-in-law of Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona. She was thus an aunt-by-marriage of Juan Carlos I. At the time of her death at age 98, she was the longest-lived member of both Spanish and French royal family.<ref>While she and Infante Jaime divorced in 1947 and each subsequently married a second time, their divorce was not recognized by the Spanish and French governments nor by the Catholic Church.</ref>
== Early life == thumb|Emmanuelle de Dampierre with her mother, brother and sister in the 1920s.Emmanuelle was born on 8 November 1913 at the Palazzo Ruspoli, her maternal family's palace on the Via del Corso in Rome. She was the eldest daughter of the French nobleman Roger de Dampierre, 2ndDuke of San Lorenzo Nuovo, Vicomte de Dampierre and the Italian noblewoman and painter Princess Vittoria Ruspoli, a daughter of Emanuele Ruspoli, 1st Prince of Poggio Suasa.<ref name="mujer" /><ref>{{cite magazine | title = Milestones, Mar. 11, 1935 | magazine = Time | date = 11 March 1935| url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,883286,00.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110115111055/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,883286,00.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = 15 January 2011 | access-date = 2011-05-25 | quote = Married. Don Jaime, 26, second son of ex-King Alfonso XIII of Spain; and Emanuela de Dampierre. 20, granddaughter of Princess Ruspoli Poggio di Suasa, (''née'' Josephine Curtis of Boston); in Rome. Born a deaf-mute, Don Jaime has learned to speak croakingly.}}</ref> Both her maternal and paternal families were part of the Papal nobility. She spent much of her childhood moving between Paris and Rome, until her parents divorced in 1930.<ref name=":1" /> At which time she returned with her mother, brother and sister to the Palazzo Ruspoli to live with her grandmother Josephine, Dowager Princess of Poggio Suasa.
In her memoirs, Emmanuelle describes her fatherless childhood.<ref name=":1" /> Although she lived almost her entire childhood without a father, she grew up in a happy atmosphere, later recalling:{{blockquote|Ours was a fatherless childhood. His absence wasn't the best situation imaginable, but it wasn't a tragedy for us, nor, of course, the source of any later trauma. The reality is that at some point, we simply stopped seeing him. As I mentioned before, I was very young when this happened, and my siblings even younger, since I was the oldest of the three. You could say we didn't miss him. Our life was comfortable and pleasant; we felt protected by my grandmother and my mother. I don't recall ever having a sad atmosphere at home.}}Emmanuelle attended the Assumption School in Paris, and later in Rome.<ref name=":1" /> After her schooling ending, she travelled wth her grandmother in London<ref name=":1" />. Although she hated injuries, Emmanuelle became a Red Cross nurse on the recommendation of one of her friends. It was on this occasion that she acquired Italian nationality, because, being born French, she could not serve in the Italian Red Cross.<ref name=":1" />
== Marriages == In 1934, Emmanuelle met Infante Jaime at a cocktail party. King Alfonso XIII quickly presented his marriage proposal to Emmanuelle's mother, who accepted it. It was at a dinner at Princess Radziwill's home that she met her future father-in-law<ref name=":1" />. A few weeks later, their engagement was announced<ref>{{Cite web |last=Baciero |first=César Andrés |date=2025-10-12 |title=Las tres bodas en el exilio de la familia real española que dejaron a Alfonso XIII “sin guita” en 1935 |url=https://www.revistavanityfair.es/articulos/bodas-exilio-familia-real-alfonso-xiii |access-date=2026-05-30 |website=Vanity Fair |language=es-ES}}</ref>.
On 4 March 1935, she married Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia, a member of the Spanish royal family, at the Church of Sant'Ignazio in Rome.<ref name="abc">{{Cite web|url=https://www.abc.es/estilo/gente/abci-muere-abuela-luisalfonso-borbon-201205030000_noticia.html|title=Fallece en Roma Emmanuella de Dampierre, abuela de Luis Alfonso de Borbón|date=May 3, 2012|website=Diario ABC}}</ref> The marriage was arranged by their parents.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.abc.es/estilo/gente/abci-emmanuelle-dampierre-mujer-armas-201205050000_noticia.html|title=Emmanuella Dampierre, una mujer de armas tomar|date=May 5, 2012|website=Diario ABC}}</ref> Her husband, the son of King Alfonso XIII, was born deaf and mute, and had had to relinquish his rights to the Spanish throne.<ref name="abc" /> Although he renounced his rights to the Spanish throne,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://elpais.com/elpais/2012/05/03/gente/1336080972_660656.html|title=Emmanuella de Dampierre, una vida de desgracias|first=Fermin J.|last=Urbiola|work=El País |date=May 3, 2012|via=elpais.com}}</ref> her husband was the Legitimist claimant to the former French throne and was granted the Dukedom of Segovia by his father.<ref name="abc" /><ref name="mujer">{{Cite web|url=https://www.mujerhoy.com/celebrities/realeza/emanuela-dampierre-borbon-tragedia-muerte-odio-carmen-martinez-bordiu-20240729144212-nt.html|title=La tragedia de Emanuela Dampierre, suegra de Carmen Martínez-Bordiú: boda forzada, infidelidad y dos dramáticas muertes|date=July 29, 2024|website=Mujer Hoy}}</ref> They had two sons: * Prince Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz (20 April 1936 – 20 January 1989)<ref name= mujer/> * Prince Gonzalo, Duke of Aquitaine (5 June 1937 – 5 March 2000)<ref name= mujer/>
In 1947, Emanuelle and Infante Jaime divorced in Bucharest.<ref name= abc/> She married a second time to Antonio Sozzani, a Milanese stockbroker, in Vienna.<ref name= abc/> She and Sozzani divorced in 1967.<ref name= abc/> While her first divorce was legally recognized in Italy, it was not recognized by the Catholic Church nor by the Spanish and French governments.<ref name= abc/><ref name= mujer/> [[File:Dukes of Segovia family in 1937.jpg|thumb|The Duke and Duchess of Anjou and Segovia in 1937 with their sons, Alfonso and Gonzalo.]]
== Later life and death == From 1947 until her death in 2012, Emmanuelle was considered, both in Spain, in France and in many European courts, to be the true wife of the Infante.<ref name="mujer" />
The 1980s were a very difficult period for Emmanuelle. After three years of separation, her eldest son, Alfonso, and his wife divorced in 1982. Two years later, in 1984, a serious car accident claimed the life of the Duke's eldest son, François de Bourbon (1972-1984), while Alfonso and his second son were seriously injured. Finally, in 1989, Alfonso died of a serious neck injury in a skiing accident in the United States. Many years later, in 2000, Emmanuelle's youngest son, Gonzalo, died from leukemia.
In 2003, Emanuelle published a memoir titled ''Memorias: Esposa y madre de los Borbones que pudieron reinar en España''.<ref name= mujer/><ref name=":1">Begoña Aranguren, ''Emanuela de Dampierre, Memorias: Esposa y madre de los Borbones que pudieron reinar en España'' (Madrid: Esfera, 2003), 105.</ref>
Emmanuelle, called ''Madame'', and her husband used the French Royal coat of arms.<ref name=":0" />
She died on 3 May 2012 in Rome following a long-term illness.<ref name= abc/> She was buried in the Dampierre family vault at the Passy Cemetery in Paris.<ref name= mujer/>
== Titles, styles, honours and arms ==
=== Titles and styles ===
==== Spain ==== * 8 November 1913 - 4 March 1935: ''Donna'' Emmanuelle de Dampierre * 4 March 1935 - 3 May 2012: ''Her Excellency'' The Duchess of Segovia, Grandee of Spain ** ''Her Excellency'' Emmanuelle de Dampierre, Grandee of Spain<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.agapea.com/libros/Memorias-Emanuela-de-Dampierre-9788497341417-i.htm |title=MEMORIAS. EMANUELA DE DAMPIERRE - BEGOÑA ARANGUREN - 9788497341417}}</ref>
==== France (Legitimists) ==== * 8 November 1913 - 3 March 1935: Mademoiselle Emmanuelle de Dampierre<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kerrebrouck |first=Patrick van |url=https://www.google.fr/books/edition/La_maison_de_Bourbon/fL4iAQAAIAAJ?hl=fr&gbpv=1&bsq=La+maison+de+Bourbon+:+1256-2004&dq=La+maison+de+Bourbon+:+1256-2004&printsec=frontcover |title=La maison de Bourbon: 1256-2004 |date=2004 |publisher=Patrick van Kerrebrouck |isbn=978-2-9501509-0-5 |language=fr}}</ref> * 4 March 1935 - 29 September 1936: ''Her Serene Highness'' The Duchess of Segovia * 29 September 1936 - 6 September 1938: ''Her Royal Highness'' The Duchess of Segovia * 6 September 1938 - 28 February 1941: ''Her Royal Highness'' The Dauphine of France * 28 February 1941 - 20 March 1975: ''Her Royal Highness'' The Duchess of Anjou and Segovia * 20 March 1975 - 3 May 2012: ''Her Royal Highness'' The Dowager Duchess of Anjou and Segovia
=== Honours === '''National'''
* {{flag|Spain}}: Dame of the Order of Queen Maria Luisa, ''1935'' * {{flag|Spain}}: Dame of the Decoration of the Royal Cavalry Armory of Seville, ''1938'' * {{flag|Kingdom of Italy}}: Dame of the Italian Red Cross, ''1931'' * {{flag|Kingdom of Italy}}: Dame of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus
; Foreign
* {{flag|Sovereign Military Order of Malta}}: Bailiff Dame of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta
=== Arms === <gallery> File:Coat of Arms of Emanuela de Dampierre as Duchess of Segovia.svg|Coat of arms of Emmanuelle de Dampierre in Spain as Duchess of Segovia (1935-2012). File:Coat of Arms of Emmanuelle of Dampierre 1913–2012 (Order of Queen Maria Luisa).svg|Coat of arms of Emmanuelle de Dampierre in France as Duchess of Anjou and Segovia with Order of Queen Maria Luisa (1941-2012). </gallery>
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