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- Madeleine de Bourbon-Busset (1898-1984)

Madeleine de Bourbon-Busset was the daughter of the count of Lignières, was a great-great-granddaughter of Jacques, youngest son of the 8th Count of Busset (1722-1793). She got married in 1927 with a royal Bourbon relative, Xavier, titular duke of Parma and Carlist pretender to the throne of Spain.

Although Madeleine brought as dowry the chateau of Lignières, at the time this marriage was not accepted as dynastic by the titular duke, Xavier's elder brother, obtaining dynastic recognition retroactively around the time of the engagement of Xavier's eldest son to the daughter of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands in 1964.

As the wife of Xavier, Madeleine was, however, proclaimed Queen consort of Spain by the remaining Carlists in 1952.

Widowed in 1977, she remained a staunch adherent of her husband's Carlist principles. She excluded her elder son from the funeral of her husband as disloyal to his father's traditionalist Carlism, recognizing instead the claim to Carlist leadership and to Lignières of her younger son, Prince Sixtus Henry of Bourbon-Parma, (self-proclaimed) Duke of Aranjuez, who continued the rivalry with his brother as Carlist pretender.

Baby Infanta Blanca of Spain, c. 1869.

Carlos, Duke of Madrid and his family in 1888.

Back row: Infanta Beatriz, Jaime, Duke of Madrid and Infanta Blanca.