Princess Margherita of Bourbon-Parma

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Infanta Margherita
Duchess of Madrid
Photograph by Atelier Nadar, 1878
Consort of the Carlist pretender to the Spanish throne
Pretence	3 October 1868 - 29 January 1893
Consort of the Legitimist pretender to the French throne
Pretence	21 November 1887 - 29 January 1893
Born	(1847-01-01)1 January 1847 Lucca, Duchy of Parma
Died	29 January 1893(1893-01-29) (aged 46) Viareggio, Tuscany, Kingdom of Italy
Spouse	Infante Carlos, Duke of Madrid ​ ​ (m. 1867)​
Issue	Blanca, Archduchess Leopold Salvator of Austria Infante Jaime, Duke of Madrid Infanta Elvira Infanta Beatriz, Princess of Roviano Alicia, Princess Friedrich of Schönburg-Waldenburg
Names French: Marguerite Marie Thérèse Henriette Italian: Margherita Maria Teresa Enrichetta Spanish: Margarita Maria Teresa Enriqueta
House	Bourbon-Parma
Father	Charles III, Duke of Parma
Mother	Princess Louise Marie Thérèse of France

Princess Margherita of Bourbon-Parma (Italian: Margherita Maria Teresa Enrichetta, Principessa di Parma; 1 January 1847 – 29 January 1893) was the eldest child and daughter of Charles III, Duke of Parma and Princess Louise Marie Thérèse of France, the eldest daughter of Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry and Princess Caroline Ferdinande Louise of the Two Sicilies.^[1]

Margherita was thus a great-granddaughter of Charles X of France. She was born in Lucca, Duchy of Parma. She was a niece of Henri, comte de Chambord, disputedly King of France and Navarre from 2 to 9 August 1830 and afterwards the Legitimist Pretender to the throne of France from 1844 to 1883. Through her marriage to Carlos de Borbón y Austria-Este, Carlist claimant to the Spanish throne.