Princess Marie Françoise of Bourbon-Parma

Marie Françoise of Bourbon-Parma
Princess Edouard de Lobkowicz
Marie-Françoise on her wedding day in 1960
Born (1928-08-19) 19 August 1928
Paris, French Third Republic
Spouse
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(m. 1959; died 2010)​
IssuePrince Edouard-Xavier
Prince Robert Emanuel
Prince Charles-Henri
Princess Marie Gabrielle
Names
Marie-Françoise Antoinette Jeanne Madeleine de Bourbon-Parme
HouseBourbon-Parma
FatherPrince Xavier, Duke of Parma and Piacenza
MotherMadeleine de Bourbon-Busset
OccupationHumanitarian, philanthropist

Princess Marie-Françoise Antoinette Jeanne Madeleine of Bourbon-Parma, known upon her marriage as Princess Edouard de Lobkowicz (French: Marie-Françoise de Bourbon-Parme; born 19 August 1928) is a French humanitarian and philanthropist. A member of the House of Bourbon-Parma by birth and of the House of Lobkowicz by marriage, her religious wedding in 1960 was the first Bourbon wedding to take place at Notre-Dame de Paris since the wedding of Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry to Princess Caroline of Naples and Sicily in 1816 during the Bourbon Restoration.

After escaping the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 with the assistance of Catholic Relief Services, Marie-Françoise helped settle refugees in West Berlin who fled the Soviet Union. In the 1980s, while her husband, Prince Edouard de Lobkowicz, was serving as the Sovereign Military Order of Malta's ambassador to Lebanon, she was involved in the construction and development of twelve medical and social centers owned by the Order. Princess Marie-Françoise founded the Malte Liban Association, a Catholic organization that raises money for medical clinics serving the poor in Lebanon, in 1987. She served as a delegate to the United Nations from 1990 to 1995.

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