Prince Hugo de Bourbon de Parme

Prince Hugo de Bourbon de Parme, formerly Hugo Klynstra (Carlos Hugo Roderik Sybren Klynstra; born 20 January 1997) is a member of the extended Dutch Royal Family as the illegitimate son of Prince Carlos, Duke of Parma. He was the first great-grandchild of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands. Born out of wedlock, he was denied titles and family rights by his father until the Dutch Council of State ruled in his favor in 2018, granting him the style and title of His Royal Highness Prince Carlos Hugo Roderik Sybren de Bourbon de Parme. Despite the ruling, he is not a member of the Dutch royal house nor a member of the House of Bourbon-Parma and is not in the line of succession to the defunct throne of Parma nor the Carlist line of succession to the throne of Spain. Early life and family Carlos Hugo Roderik Sybren Klynstra was born in Nijmegen on 20 January 1997 to Prince Carlos de Bourbon de Parme, Prince of Piacenza and his friend Brigitte Klynstra. A 1999 court order pursued by his mother determined his paternity. Due to being an illegitimate son, he was not born a prince. His father told Dutch media that Hugo's birth was "his mother's wish" and an "independent decision", denying his son any family rights. His maternal grandmother, Ingrid Pieksma-Klynstra, was the wife of Adolph Roderik Ernst Leopold, Count of Rechteren-Limpurg. Through this relation, he is a relative by marriage of Princess Anna of Ysenburg and Büdingen, Princess consort of Lippe. Through his father, he is a grandson of Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma and Princess Irene of the Netherlands. He is the first great-grandchild of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands and Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld. He is also a great-grandson of Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma and Madeleine de Bourbon-Busset. Upon the death of his grandfather, Carlos Hugo, in 2010, his father became the titular Duke of Parma and Piacenza, Carlist claimant to the Spanish throne, and the Head of the House of Bourbon-Parma. That same year, his father married the Dutch journalist Annemarie Gualthérie van Weezel. According to a royal decree of Queen Beatrix in 1996, his father is also a Dutch prince.