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Princess Diana of Bourbon-Parma, aristocrat
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Princess Diana of Bourbon-Parma, aristocrat

Princess Diana Margherita of Bourbon-Parma ‑ a French aristocrat and member of the House of Bourbon-Parma, a cadet branch of the Spanish royal family – died of Covid-19 on 7 May 2020. She was the second royal to have reportedly died from COVID-19. Princess Diana was born in Paris on 22 May 1932 to Prince Gaetano of Bourbon-Parma, the youngest child of Robert I, Duke of Parma and Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal, and Princess Margarete von Thurn und Taxis, the youngest child of Prince Alessandro, 1st Duke of Castel Duino and Princess Marie de Ligne. On 15 March 1955 she married Prince Franz Josef Hubertus Maria Meinrad Michael of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, son of Frederick, Prince of Hohenzollern, in a civil ceremony London. They later had a Catholic ceremony on 16 A...