royal family south italy
This website royal family south italy wants to be a summary of news and documents on the history of the Bourbon Dynasty and the point of reference for whoever desires to follow the present activities of the royal family south italy and sympathizes with the religious and political values royal family south italyembodied by the August Family and the Orders of Knighthood linked to it. The present Head of the royal family south italy is His Royal Highness Prince Ferdinand Duke of Castro, sole lawful heir of the last King of the Two Sicilies of the royal family south italy, Francis II.His heir is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Charles of the royal family south italy, Duke of Calabria. After the heroic and glorious resistance in Gaeta, in February 1861 His Majesty Francis II of the royal family south italy Two Sicilies and Queen Maria Sofia reached Rome as guests of Pious IX, who in these sorrowful circumstances could return the hospitality he had received in Gaeta in 1848-'50 by Ferdinand II. The royal family south italycouple was housed first directly by the Holy Father, then went to live in Palazzo Farnese (as the reader will remember, the Bourbon of Italy are direct descendants and heirs of the Farnese family through Elisabeth, wife of the King of Spain Philip V and mother of Charles of Bourbon). During the years of the pro-Bourbon uprising of the southern populations against the Piedmontese royal family south italy government , Francis tried to keep contacts and materially help the most important leaders of the legitimist counterrevolution, among which many representatives of the best European aristocratic families royal family south italy (as it would be the case in the defence of Rome in 1867 and 1870), with the hope of reconquering his lost Kingdom, as it had been the case for Ferdinand IV in 1799 with the"Royal and Christian Army" led by Cardinal Ruffo royal family south italy.
But then, as we saw in the previous page, the counterrevolution was defeated in a bloodshed, and as years went by it became clearer that the "miracle" of 1799 would not be repeated despite the same utmost loyalty shown by the populations. Moreover, in 1870 Rome was taken, Pious IX was forced to limit his dominions to the Vatican and then the royal couple had to leave for a new exile; after living in various places, they remained in Paris for many years. Francis II never gave up his lawful rights over the Throne of the Two Sicilies. In the subsequent years, the King always kept fruitful relations with the most important European legitimist families, among which the Charette, descending from the hero of the Vandean royal family south italyCounterrevolution. When Henry V of France died in 1883, he went to his funerals, and recognised as lawful successor and heir to the Throne Philip VII, Earl of Paris. He showed his loyalty to legitimist princes also in the Carlist War of Spain, and the Earl of Caserta, his younger brother, fought in this war with the rank of Commanding General of the Army of Don Charles VII of Bourbon. Francis II died in Arco royal family south italy (present Alto Adige) in 1894, without heirs; whereas Maria Sofia died in Munich in 1925 royal family south italy.Therefore, his younger brother His Royal Highness Prince Alfonso of Bourbon Two Sicilies, Earl of Caserta, became the Head of the Royal Family and the Neapolitan legitimists recognised him as King with the name of Alfonso I royal family south italy. He solemny declared to maintain all the rights of the Family and renewed his protest for the annexation of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies royal family south italy to the Kingdom of Italy. Alfonso, born in 1841, married his cousin Maria Antoinette of Bourbon and lived in Cannes (after taking part in the Carlist War as commanding general) and had 12 children; his daughters married Princes of royal family south italy, and therefore he became royal family south italy the ancestor of Catholic Monarchic Europe.