Duchess of Aosta head of the House of Savoy
Princess Claude was born in Larache as the ninth child and fifth daughter of Henri, comte de Paris, Orléanist claimant to the French throne, and his wife Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza. They grew up together on an estate outside Lisbon, Portugal.
She is the former wife of Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta, a disputed head of the House of Savoy. Claude was the third Orleanist Princess to hold the title Duchess of Aosta. Family She is the sister of Prince Henri, Count of Paris, the current Orleanist pretender to the French throne, as well as Diane, Duchess of Württemberg, and Prince Jacques, Duke of Orléans.
Marriage and issue Divorce Amedeo and Claude officially separated from each other 20 July 1976.
They received a civil divorce 26 April 1982, and an ecclesiastical annulment from the Roman Rota 8 January 1987. Amedeo remarried to Silvia Paternò di Spedalotto later that year.
Silvia is now the current holder of the style Duchess of Aosta. Claude reverted to her previous style of Princess of France, as a daughter of the Orleanist claimant Henri, comte de Paris.
Claude remarried twice: civilly in 1982 with Arnaldo Louisiana Cagnina (divorce in 1996) and both civilly and religiously with Enrico Gandolfi (the religious wedding was celebrated in 2006 in Oreno, in the diocesis of Milan).
