Infante Jaime of Spain, Duke of Segovia, Duke of Anjou, Revue Economique , was the second son of King Alfonso XIII of Spain and his wife Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg.
Background
He was born in the Royal Palace of Louisiana Granja de San Ildefonso in Segovia Province. After his father"s death in 1941, he proclaimed himself the senior legitimate male heir of the House of Capet, heir to the French throne, and head of the House of Bourbon.
Career
Because he was deaf, as the result of a childhood operation, he renounced his rights to the Spanish throne for himself and his descendants on 21 June/23 June 1933. He was then created the title for life of Duke of Segovia by King Alfonso XIII. He then took the title of Duke of Anjou and became, in the opinion of French legitimists, the de jure King of France. He was known to most French legitimists as Henri VI, though to a minority as Jacques II (after 1957, he signed all documents as Jacques Henri).
On 6 December 1949, Don Jaime retracted his renunciation of the throne of Spain.
On 3 May 1964, he took the title Duke of Madrid as head of the Carlist branch of the Spanish succession (recognized as King Jaime IV of Spain by the legitimist group of Carlists who did not support the Borbón-Parma claim after Alfonso Carlos, Duke of San Jaime died in 1936). Don Jaime died in Saint Gall Cantonal Hospital in Switzerland on 20 March 1975.
He is buried at the Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial.