Bulgarian Royal Family
The last Bulgarian royal family () is a line of the Koháry branch of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, which ruled Bulgaria from 1887 to 1946. The last tsar, Simeon II, became Prime Minister of Bulgaria in 2001 and remained in office until 2005. Members of the royal family claim the titles of Prince (Princess) of Bulgaria and Duke (Duchess) in Saxony, with the style of Royal Highness. Coburg Peak on Trinity Peninsula in Antarctica is named after the Bulgarian royal house of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Current family tree This is the family tree of the Bulgarian royal family, including all descendants of Tsar Ferdinand I. * '' Tsar Ferdinand I (1861–1948)'' ** '' Tsar Boris III (1894–1943)'' *** Tsar Simeon II (b. 1937) **** '' Kardam, Prince of Tarnovo (1962–2015)'' ***** Boris, Prince of Tarnovo (b. 1997) ***** Prince Beltrán (b. 1999) **** Kyril, Prince of Preslav (b. 1964) ***** Princess Mafalda-Cecilia, Mrs. Abousleiman (b. 1994) ***** Princess Olimpia (b. 1995 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Coats Of Arms Of Bulgarian Royal Family
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Ferdinand I Of Bulgaria
Ferdinand I (Ferdinand Maximilian Karl Leopold Maria; 26 February 1861 – 10 September 1948) was Prince of Bulgaria from 1887 to 1908 and Tsar of Bulgaria from 1908 until his abdication in 1918. Under his rule, Bulgaria entered the First World War on the side of the Central Powers in 1915. Family background Ferdinand was born on 26 February 1861 in Vienna, Louda, 1981, ''Lines of Succession'', Table 149 a German prince of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry. He was the son of Prince August of Saxe-Coburg and his wife Clémentine of Orléans, daughter of King Louis Philippe I of France. Princess Maria Antonia Koháry was a Hungarian Noble and heiress who married Ferdinand's grandfather, Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Ferdinand was raised in his parents’ Catholic faith and baptised in St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna on 27 February, having as godparents Archduke Maximilian of Austria and his wife Princess Charlotte of Belgium. He grew up in the cos ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Princess Nadezhda Of Bulgaria
Princess Nadezhda of Bulgaria (; born Nadezhda Klementine Maria Pia Majella (Надежда Клементина Мария Пия Мажелла)); ; 30 January 1899 – 15 February 1958) was a member of the Bulgarian royal family. Life She was born in Sofia as the younger daughter of Ferdinand I of Bulgaria and his first wife Princess Marie Louise of Parma who died giving birth to her. Along with her sister Princess Eudoxia she was educated under the direction of their step mother, Princess Eleonore Reuss of Köstritz. Name Nadezhda means "Hope". Princess Nadezhda was married on 24 January 1924 at Bad Mergentheim, Germany, to Duke Albrecht Eugen of Württemberg, the second son of Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg. They had five children. * Duke Ferdinand Eugen (3 April 1925 – 3 November 2020). * Duchess Margareta Luise (25 November 1928 – 10 June 2017) married François Luce-Bailly, Viscount of Chevigny (15 June 1923 – 6 March 2022) on August 8, 1970. She had one son ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Princess Eudoxia Of Bulgaria
Princess Eudoxia of Bulgaria (; 5 January 1898 – 4 October 1985) was the eldest daughter and third child of King Ferdinand I of Bulgaria and his first wife, Princess Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma. She was a devoted sister and confidante to Boris III, King Boris III. Biography Born on 5 January 1898 in Sofia, Princess Eudoxia was the third child and first daughter of Ferdinand I of Bulgaria, Ferdinand I, Prince of Bulgaria (later King of Bulgaria), and his first wife, Princess Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma. She had two older brothers and one younger sister. Eudoxia was exactly one year old when her mother, Marie, died in childbirth while giving birth to Eudoxia's younger sister Princess Nadezhda of Bulgaria, Nadejda. From an early age, Eudoxia was interested in the fine arts. Princess Eudoxia never married; although, there were persistent rumors that she wished to marry a man of Bulgarian descent, which was dynastically unacceptable at that time. She devoted her life to B ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kiril, Prince Of Preslav
Prince Kiril of Bulgaria, Prince of Preslav (, ; 17 November 1895 – 1 February 1945) was the second son of Ferdinand I of Bulgaria and his first wife Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma. He was a younger brother of Boris III of Bulgaria and a prince regent of the Kingdom of Bulgaria from 1943 to 1944. He was sentenced to death by the People's Court and executed on the night of 1 February 1945. Biography He was born on 17 January 1895 in Sofia as the second son of Ferdinand I of Bulgaria and his first wife, Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma. Kiril was a candidate for the restored Polish crown in 1917. In September 1936, Prince Kiril accompanied King Edward VIII on a whistle-stop tour of Iceland. Present at the death of his brother, Tsar Boris, on 28 August 1943, Prince Kiril was appointed head of a regency council by the Bulgarian parliament, to act as Head of State until the late Tsar's son, Simeon II of Bulgaria, became 18. Prince Kiril, with the widowed Tsaritsa, Giovanna of Savo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hermann Leiningen
Prince Hermann Friedrich Fernando Roland of Leiningen (; born April 16, 1963) is a Canadian banker and the younger son of Prince Karl of Leiningen and Princess Marie Louise of Bulgaria. Life Leiningen was born in Toronto, Ontario. Through his mother, Leiningen is a grandson of King Boris III of Bulgaria, a great-grandson of King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy and great-great-grandson of King Nicholas of Montenegro. Through his father, he is a great-great-great grandson of both Queen Victoria and Alexander II of Russia. Leiningen is a financial analyst and banker, addressed as Mr. Hermann Leiningen professionally. , Leiningen worked for a division of Royal Bank of Canada Royal Bank of Canada (RBC; ) is a Canadian multinational Financial institution, financial services company and the Big Five (banks), largest bank in Canada by market capitalization. The bank serves over 20 million clients and has more than .... On 16 May 1987, Leiningen married Deborah Cully (born Dec ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Princess Marie Louise Of Bulgaria
Princess Marie Louise of Bulgaria (; born 13 January 1933) also known as Marie Louise Borisova Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, is the daughter of Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria, Boris III and Tsaritsa Giovanna of Italy, Ioanna and the older sister of Simeon II of Bulgaria.Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh (editor). Burke's Peerage, Burke's Guide to the Royal Family, Burke's Peerage, London, 1973, pp. 245–246, 296. Her baptism in the Bulgarian Orthodox Church caused controversy at the time because her mother had promised to raise her children as Catholic Church, Catholics. After the change in house laws into absolute primogeniture by her brother Simeon II, Princess Marie Louise became the head of the house of House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry. Biography Her godfather was Aleksandar Malinov. She was enrolled at the Medical Nurse College of the Red Cross, Spanish Red Cross Society, which she graduated with honours. After the abolition of the monarchy in 1946, Prin ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ona Mafalda
Mafalda-Cecilia von Saxe-Coburg und Gotha ( Bulgarian: ''Mafalda-Cecilia Sakskoburggotska''; born 27 July 1994), known professionally as Ona Mafalda, is a British-born Spanish singer-songwriter. She released her debut EP ''Bailando sin sentido'' in 2021, followed by her debut album, ''Ona'', in 2023. She has performed at music festivals including Primavera Sound, Eurosonic Noorderslag, and The Great Escape Festival. As a granddaughter of Simeon II, the last reigning tsar of Bulgaria, she is a member of the former Bulgarian royal family and a princess of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry. Early life and family Mafalda was born on 27 July 1994 in London to María del Rosario Nadal y Fuster de Puigdórfila, a Spanish aristocrat and art director, and Kyril, Prince of Preslav, a member of the Bulgarian royal family. She is a granddaughter of Simeon II of Bulgaria, who was the last tsar of the Kingdom of Bulgaria and later served as the prime minister of the Republic of ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kyril, Prince Of Preslav
Kyril, Prince of Preslav, Duke in Saxony (born 11 July 1964), also known as Kyril of Saxe-Coburg, is the second son of Simeon II and Margarita Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. His father, Simeon, served as Tsar of Bulgaria from 1943 to 1946 and Prime Minister of Bulgaria from 2001 to 2005. Education and career Kyril was born in Madrid, and graduated from Princeton University with an A.B. in physics in 1986 after completing a senior thesis titled "Velocity distribution of pulsars: a Monte Carlo simulation." In 2007, he worked for GLG Partners, the London-based asset management branch of Lehman Brothers. Marriage and family Kyril married María del Rosario Nadal y Fuster de Puigdórfila, who goes by "Rosario Nadal", on 15 September 1989. Her first cousin, Joaquín Felipe de Puigdórfila y Esteve is the current Count of Olocau. The religious ceremony was held at Saint Anne's Chapel, Royal Palace of La Almudaina, Palma de Mallorca. The Spanish tabloids '' ¡Hola!'' and '' Semana'' cove ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Boris, Prince Of Tarnovo
Boris, Prince of Tarnovo, Duke in Saxonyde Badts de Cugnac, Chantal. Coutant de Saisseval, Guy. ''Le Petit Gotha''. Nouvelle Imprimerie Laballery. Paris. 2002. pp. 328-329, 335-337, 340 (French) (born 12 October 1997), known by his Spanish civilian name Boris de Sajonia-Coburgo-Gotha y Ungría, is the elder son of Miriam Ungría y López and Kardam, Prince of Tarnovo, the grandson of former Tsar Simeon II of Bulgaria and, through his mother's second marriage in 2022, the step-son of Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad, a first cousin of King Abdullah II of Jordan. He is, after the death of his father on 7 April 2015, first in line of succession to the defunct Bulgarian throne. Boris, who has maintained close relations with the Spanish royal family since his father's death, speaks Spanish, English, French and some Bulgarian.'' La Razón. Carmen Duerto. 28 April 2015Boris de Bulgaria asume su destino (Spanish). Retrieved 8 May 2017. He is an artist, devoted to sculpture, plays t ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kardam, Prince Of Tarnovo
Kardam, Prince of Tarnovo, Duke in Saxony (2 December 1962 – 7 April 2015) was the eldest son of Tsar Simeon II of Bulgaria and his wife, ''Doña'' Margarita Gómez-Acebo y Cejuela. Kardam was born after the abolition of the Bulgarian monarchy. As such, it was only by courtesy that he was sometimes styled as if being a crown prince. He was known also as Kardam of Bulgaria and Kardam of Tarnovo, the latter being the title of the heir apparent of the Bulgarian throne. Life He was born in Madrid, was baptised into the Eastern Orthodox faith and had a master's degree in Agricultural Economics from Penn State University. Marriage and issue In Madrid, on 11 July 1996, Kardam married Miriam Ungría y López, born in Madrid on 2 September 1963, a gemologist and daughter of Bernardo Ungría y Goiburu, a patent and trademark attorney and honorary president of the ''Colegio Heráldico de España y de las Indias'' and his wife, María del Carmen López y Oleaga, both of Basque descent. ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tsar Boris III
Boris III (; 28 August 1943), originally Boris Klemens Robert Maria Pius Ludwig Stanislaus Xaver (Boris Clement Robert Mary Pius Louis Stanislaus Xavier), was the Tsar of the Kingdom of Bulgaria from 1918 until his death in 1943. The eldest son of Ferdinand I of Bulgaria, Ferdinand I, Boris assumed the throne upon the abdication of his father in the wake of Bulgaria in World War I, Bulgaria's defeat in World War I. Under the 1919 Treaty of Neuilly, Bulgaria was forced to cede various territories, pay crippling war reparations, and greatly reduce the size of its military. That same year, Aleksandar Stamboliyski of the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union became prime minister. After Stamboliyski was overthrown in 1923 Bulgarian coup d'état, a coup in 1923, Boris recognized the new government of Aleksandar Tsankov, who harshly suppressed the Bulgarian Communist Party and led the nation through a Incident at Petrich, brief border war with Greece. Tsankov was removed from power in 1926 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |