Princess Maria Beatrice of Savoy

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name = Princess Maria Beatrice
title = Princess Maria Beatrice of Savoy
full name = Maria Beatrice Elena Margherita Ludovica Caterina Ramona


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titles = "HRH" Princess Maria Beatrice of Savoy
date of birth = birth date and age|1943|02|02
place of birth = Naples, Italy
royal house = House of Savoy
spouse = Luis Reyna-Corvalán y Dillon
issue = Rafael Reyna y de Saboya
Patrizio Reyna y de Saboya
Azaea Reyna y de Saboya
father = Umberto II of Italy
mother = Princess Marie-José of Belgium

Princess Maria Beatrice of Savoy ("Maria Beatrice Elena Margherita Ludovica Caterina Ramona di Savoia" (born 2 February 1943) is the youngest daughter of Italy's last king, Umberto II and his queen, Marie José of Belgium. Known as "Titti" to family and friends. She was known as a rebellious princess, having numerous love affairs in her twenties, most notably with actor Maurizio Arena. She later suffered from alcoholism and attempted suicide a number of times.

Marriage

Maria Beatrice married Luis Rafael Reyna-Corvalán y Dillon (18 April 1939-17 February 1999; murdered) in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico on April 1, 1970. She was pregnant at the time of her marriage. No family members attended. The couple had three children.

* Rafael Humberto Lupo Reyna y de Saboya (21 September 1970-29 April 1994), committed suicide
* Patrizio Reyna y de Saboya (1971); died shortly after birth
* Azaea Beatrice Reyna y de Saboya (b. 11 November 1973), married Arturo Pando y Mundet (1971-) in 1996, Mexico.

Tragedy and Controversy

In 1971 her second child Patrizio died shortly after birth. In 1994 her eldest son committed suicide by jumping out a window in Boston. The following year she separated from her husband, after a long unhappy marriage. In 1999, her husband was murdered in his villa in Mexico. The crime was very disturbing, apparently his chauffeur had strangled him with the string of his bath wrap. Also there was a bootlace bound around his penis. This death too was shrouded in mystery as Maria Beatrice, nor her only surviving child Azaea, never came to claim Reyna's body and neither attending his funeral. In days after her husband's murder police were unable to locate Maria Beatrice,though later she was found in the Bahamas were she said she was on vacation at the time of her husband's death. Today she lives in Mexico and New York.

Ancestry

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1= 1. Princess Maria Beatrice of Savoy
2= 2. Umberto II of Italy
3= 3. Princess Marie-José of Belgium
4= 4. Victor Emmanuel III of Italy
5= 5. Princess Jelena of Montenegro
6= 6. Albert I of Belgium
7= 7. Duchess Elisabeth of Bavaria
8= 8. Umberto I of Italy
9= 9. Princess Margherita of Savoy
10= 10. Nicholas I of Montenegro
11= 11. Milena Vukotić
12= 12. Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders
13= 13. Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
14= 14. Karl-Theodor, Duke in Bavaria
15= 15. Infanta Maria Josepha of Portugal
16= 16. Victor Emmanuel II of Italy
17= 17. Archduchess Maria Adelaide of Austria
18= 18. Ferdinand, 1st Duke of Genoa
19= 19. Princess Elizabeth of Saxony
20= 20. Mirko Petrović Njegoš, Grand Duke of Grahovo
21= 21. Anastasija Martinović
22= 22. Peter Vukotić
23= 23. Jelena Voivodić
24= 24. Leopold I of Belgium
25= 25. Princess Louise-Marie of France
26= 26. Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern
27= 27. Princess Josephine of Baden
28= 28. Maximilian Joseph, Duke in Bavaria
29= 29. Princess Ludovika of Bavaria
30= 30. Miguel of Portugal
31= 31. Adelaide of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg