| Princess Eugénie | |
| Madame Royale | |
| Full Name: | Eugenia de Jesús de Borbón y Vargas |
| House: | Bourbon |
| Father: | Prince Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou |
| Mother: | María Margarita Vargas Santaella |
| Birth Date: | 5 March 2007 |
| Birth Place: | Miami, Florida, U.S. |
Princess Eugénie de Jésus de Bourbon Vargas, Madame Royale (Spanish: Eugenia de Jesús de Borbón y Vargas; born 5 March 2007) is a French-Spanish aristocrat. She is the eldest child of Prince Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou, the Legitimist pretender to the former French throne. She is a member of the House of Bourbon and a relative of the Spanish royal family.
Princess Eugénie was born on 5 March 2007 at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami, Florida, to Prince Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou, a pretender to the former French throne, and María Margarita Vargas Santaella, a Venezuelan heiress.[1] [2] She is a member of the House of Bourbon and is accorded by Legitimists as the Madame Royale.[1] Her maternal grandfather is the Venezuelan banker Victor Vargas.[2] Her paternal grandfather, Prince Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz,[2] was a grandson of King Alfonso XIII of Spain and Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg. Her paternal grandmother, Carmen Martínez-Bordiú,[2] is the daughter of the 10th Marquis of Villaverde and the 1st Duchess of Franco.
She was baptized in a Catholic ceremony at the Apostolic Nunciature to France on 1 June 2007 with Prince Charles-Emmanuel of Bourbon-Parma and Princess Constance of Bourbon-Parma serving as her godparents.[2]
Princess Eugénie received her first communion on 4 June 2016 at the chapel of the Convent of Las Descalzas Reales in Madrid.
Princess Eugénie is a dual citizen of France and Spain.
On 30 November 2024, she was presented to society during Le Bal des débutantes at the Shangri-La Hotel in Paris.[3] [4] She opened the ball with a father-daughter waltz.[5] She wore a €100,000 Art Deco-style diamond tiara, created by Boucheron in 1935, and a gown by Carolina Herrera, borrowed from her mother, for the occasion.[6] [7] [8] The tiara was rented from V Muse, the ball's jewelry sponsor.[9] She was escorted by Archduke Karl-Konstantin von Habsburg. Princess Eugénie was one of two Spaniards to be presented as debutantes.[10]