Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou
Louis Alphonse was born in Madrid, the second son of Alfonso de Borbón, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz, and of his wife María del Carmen Martínez-Bordiú y Franco, eldest granddaughter of Francisco Franco. Alfonso was at that time the dauphin (using "Duke of Bourbon" as title of pretence) according to those who supported the claim of his father, Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia to the French throne. On 20 March 1975, the Infante Jaime ("Henri VI" by Legitimist reckoning) died. Alfonso then asserted his claim to be both Head of the House of Bourbon and Legitimist claimant to the throne of France and the Co-Principality of Andorra. As such, he took the title "Duke of Anjou", and on 19 September 1981 gave Louis Alphonse the title Duke of Touraine.
Jaime, Duke of Madrid
Don Jaime was descended from many highly aristocratic European houses: the Borbóns, the Bourbon-Parmas, the Bourbons, the Borbón-Two Sicilies, the Braganças, the , the Austria-Estes, the Savoyans and other. The rate of intermarriage, which posed problems to health of aristocratic offspring, in his case was rather low: instead of 16 great-great-grandparents he had 14. Among them there were 6 kings who actually ruled: Charles IV in Spain (1788-1808), Charles X in France (1824-1830), João VI in Portugal (1822-1826), Francis I in Two Sicilies (1825-1830), Victor Emmanuel I in Sardinia (1802-1821) and Louis I in Etruria (1801-1803). There was one king among his great-grandparents, Louis II of Etruria (1803-1807); having lost his royal status he later reigned as duke Charles I over the Duchy of Lucca (1824-1847) and as Charles II over the Duchy of Parma (1848-1849). Another great-grandfather Francis IV ruled as the Duke of Modena (1814-1846) and another one Carlos V claimed the Spanish throne as a Carlist pretender (1833-1845). Among Don Jaime's grandparents the only one who actually ruled was Charles III, the Duke of Parma (1849-1854), though the Carlist claimant Juan III posed as the king of Spain (1861-1868) and later also as Jean III, the legitimist king of France (1883-1887). Don Jaime's father, Carlos de Borbón (1848-1909), as Carlos VII was the 4th successive claimant to the Carlist throne (1868-1909) and later as Charles XI a legitimist claimant to the French one (1887-1909). Don Jaime's mother, Marguerite de Bourbon-Parme (1847-1893), was daughter to the second-last ruling Duke of Parma and sister to the last ruler of the Duchy of Parma. In 1894 Don Jaime's father remarried with Berthe de Rohan, an Austrian aristocrat and a distant descendant to a branch of French dukes, but the couple had no children.