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Titular Bulgarian Royal Family

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HM The Tsar HM The Tsaritsa HRH The Prince of Turnovo HRH The Princess of Turnovo HRH Prince Boris HRH Prince Beltran HRH The Prince of Preslav HRH The Princess of Preslav HRH Princess Mafalda HRH Princess Olimpia HRH Prince Tassilo HRH The Prince of Panagiurishte HRH The Princess of Panagiurishte HRH Prince Mirko HRH Prince Lukás HRH Prince Tirso HRH The Prince of Vidin HRH The Princess of Vidin HRH Prince Umberto HRH Princess Sofia HRH Princess Kalina HRH Princess Marie Louise Pedigree: Bulgarian ancestry of royals of Bulgaria

Princess Maria Louise (Bulgarian: Мария Луиза) (born January 13 1933, Sofia) is the daughter of Tsar Boris III and Tsaritsa Ioanna and the older sister of Simeon II of Bulgaria.

After the abolition of the monarchy in 1946, Princess Maria Louise left the country with her mother and brother. They first lived in Egypt and then moved to Spain. She married Karl, Prince of Leiningen in a civil ceremony on 14 February 1957 in Amorbach and in a religious ceremony on 20 February 1957 in Cannes. The couple had two sons:

• Boris (born 1960)
• Hermann (born 1963)

Karl and Maria Luisa divorced in 1968.

On November 16, 1969 married Bronislaw Chrobok in Toronto, Canada. They currently live in Madison, New Jersey and have a daughter and a son:

• Alexandra-Nadejda (born 1970) married to Jorge Champalimaud Raposo de Magelhaes. They have a son Luis (2003) and a daughter Giovanna (2006)
• Pavel (born 1972)

Princess Maria-Louise is a member of the Board of Trustees of the American University in Bulgaria.bg:Мария Луиза Българска fr:Marie-Louise de Bulgarie