Princess Kalina of Bulgaria

Princess Kalina of Bulgaria, Duchess in Saxony, Countess of Murany[1][2] (born 19 January 1972), is the fifth child and only daughter of the former Tsar Simeon II of Bulgaria and his wife, Doña Margarita Gómez-Acebo y Cejuela. Simeon II left Bulgaria as a child in 1945 when the country ceased to be a monarchy by referundum. He was then elected Prime Minister of the Republic of Bulgaria in 2001.

Princess Kalina of Bulgaria
Born (1972-01-19) 19 January 1972
Madrid, Spain
Spouse
Kitín Muñoz (m. 2002)
IssueSimeon Hassan Muñoz
HouseSaxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry
FatherSimeon II of Bulgaria
MotherMargarita Gómez-Acebo y Cejuela
ReligionRoman Catholic
Bulgarian royal family
Coat of arms of the Kingdom of Bulgaria

HM The Tsar
HM The Tsaritsa

HRH The Princess of Koháry

Biography

Kalina earned her secondary education in the Lycée Francais de Madrid and in addition to her native Spanish, she speaks French, English, Italian, German and some Bulgarian. She is an unconventional Royal, often expressing herself through fashion which includes unusual clothing, hairstyle, and makeup. She is a vegetarian, and her interests include fashion, art, furniture restoration, painting, and animal rights. She was baptised a Catholic.

Marriage and issue

On 26 October 2002, at 30 years old, Kalina married Antonio "Kitín" Muñoz y Valcárcel, a noted Spanish sea explorer, born in 1958 in Sidi Ifni, Morocco. They have a 14-year age difference. The royal wedding was the subject of a television documentary. The wedding ceremony was Roman Catholic at Tsarska Bistritsa, but was followed by an Eastern Orthodox blessing.[3]

On 22 October 2006 it was announced that Kalina and Kitín were expecting their first child.[4] Princess Kalina gave birth to a healthy boy on 14 March 2007 at Lozenets Hospital in Sofia, Bulgaria. The baby's name, Simeon Hassan Muñoz, is in honour of his grandfather Simeon II of Bulgaria and the late Hassan II of Morocco (because of the friendship between the two royal families).[5][6][7] Earlier reports had claimed that the name would have been Simeon Francisco Javier.[8] Simeon was baptised an Orthodox Christian in Bulgaria on 25 April 2008. His godparents are King Mohammed VI of Morocco and Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark.[9] In 2015, Princess Kalina, her husband Kitín Muñoz, and their son Simeon Hassan were living in Rabat (Morocco).[10]

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Notes
  1. Un Destino Singular. Por Siméon II de Bulgaria p. 31: "My grandfather, King Ferdinand, for his part, called himself Count Murany when he was traveling, a title of Hungarian origin that I gave to my daughter Kalina, who has great admiration for the Monarch, as we call him in the family."
  2. HRH Princess Kalina Archived 2010-12-20 at the Wayback Machine - Official website of H.M. King Simeon II
  3. "HRH Princess Kalina | H.R.H. King Simeon II". HRH Princess Kalina | H.R.H. King Simeon II. Retrieved 2016-10-05.
  4. "Bulgarian Princess Kalina Pregnant with First Child", The Sofia Weekly, 22 October 2006
  5. Royal Baby's Name - Simeon Hassan Kitin Munoz
  6. Siméon-Hassan de Bulgarie présenté au public
  7. segabg.com Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine
  8. El hijo de la princesa Kalina de Bulgaria se llamarán Simeón Francisco Javier Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
  9. Princess Kalina returns to Bulgarian homeland for son's baptism
  10. Paloma Barrientos, Kalina de Bulgaria, la hermana transgresora de Kardam dated 04.12.2015 at elvonfidencial.com
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