Prince Carlos Hugo of Bourbon Parma will be buried in Parma (Italy) next week Saturday, dressed in a Benedictine habit, the religious order to which he was closely linked, and with the red beret of his father, Don Javier de Borbón Parma and Braganza, in his hands.
His body will be transferred to The Netherlands on Friday, with the Dutch government plane especially send and paid for by Queen Beatrix, the former in sister in law of the Duke of Parma, who passed away in a Barcelona hospital on Wednesday.
Picture of four children, daughter in law and three sisters of Carlos Hugo surrounding the coffin
Prince Carlos Hugo was married to Queen Beatrix' sister Princess Irene. The couple had four children and divorced after seventeen years of marriage in 1981. Relations between Carlos Hugo and Irene, and the prince and the Dutch royal family have always remained warm and cordial, and the Duke of Parma and Piacenza was always invited to all family occasions.
Prince Carlos Javier, eldest son of Carlos Hugo and the new Duke of Parma, spoke lovingly of his late father after a Mass of remembrance in Barcelona, Thursday evening. He affirmed that the royal house of Bourbon Parma "stands for democracy and the conituinity of values that are imporatnt in Spain, such as plurality and diversity."
Carlos Hugo at one time was contender for the vacant throne of Spain, as inheritor of the claims of the so-called carlist movement and carlist branch of the Spanish royal family. The throne however was given to Prince Juan Carlos, the current King of Spain.
Carlos Javier said he will defend the dynastic rights of his father, and will continue to support a 'free and democratic Spain'. The prince said his father spent the last years of his life in Barcelona, where he eventually turned to writing about economics, crisis, globalization, the problem of development and about human rights. © GPD; Source: EFE
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