Princess Marie Louise of Bulgaria


Princess Maria Louise of Bulgaria is the daughter of Tsar Boris III and Tsaritsa Ioanna and the older sister of Simeon II of Bulgaria. Her baptism in the Bulgarian Orthodox Church caused controversy at the time.

Biography

Her godfather was Aleksandar Malinov.
She was enrolled at the Medical Nurse College of the Spanish Red Cross Society, which she graduated with honours.
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.

Marriage and issue

She married Prince Karl 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:
Karl and Maria Luisa divorced on 4 December 1968.
On 16 November 1969, she married Bronisław Tomasz Andrzej Chrobok, in Toronto, Canada. Subsequently they lived in New Jersey, United States and have a daughter and a son:
The title "Princess of Koháry" was nominally ceded to Princess Maria-Louise and the children of her second marriage, by her brother Simeon II, ex-King of Bulgaria, on 11 June 2012.

Professional life

Princess Maria-Louise is a member of the Board of Trustees of the American University in Bulgaria.
On May 13, 2012, at the 18th commencement ceremony, Princess Maria-Louise received an honorary doctoral degree in Humane Letters from the American University in Bulgaria.
In 2001, she visited and toured the church of St John of Rila the Wonderworker in Chicago's Portage Park community area.

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