Current Claimants
- Princess Alicia of Bourbon-Parma, Dowager Duchess of Calabria, Infanta of Spain, is the current claimant to the Crown of the Kingdom of Navarre in accordance with its traditional male-preference cognatic primogeniture, as evidenced by her son and heir's official website. Alicia is the only surviving daughter of Elias, Duke of Parma (1880-1959), whose father Robert I, Duke of Parma (1848-1907) was the son and heir of Louise Marie Thérèse d'Artois, granddaughter of Charles X of France. Robert inherited the Navarrese cognatic claim on the death of Henry, Count of Chambord (1820-1883), the last male-line descendant of Charles X.
- Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou, is the current Legitimist claimant to the kingdoms of France and Navarre. His claim is based on the Salic law, since the Kingdom of Navarre had merged with France under Louis XIII. Legitimists consider the renunciation of Anjou's ancestor Philip V to the French throne invalid, being contrary to the French fundamental laws of succession.
- Prince Henri, Count of Paris, Duke of France, is the current Orleanist claimant to the kingdoms of France and Navarre. His claim is based on the Salic law, since the Kingdom of Navarre had merged with France under Louis XIII. Orleanists claim the French throne on the basis of nationality, which they claim to be a part of the French fundamental laws of succession.
- Juan Carlos I of Spain uses the title King of Navarre as part of his more extended titulary, inherited from earlier monarchs of Spain (Castile and Aragon) and based on the conquest of the majority of the ancient kingdom by Ferdinand II of Aragon.
Read more about this topic: List Of Navarrese Monarchs
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