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Royal Twins Throughout History

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Updated July 3, 2024 193.6K views 29 items

A List of royal twins, with photos! This list includes both fraternal and identical twins who were also royalty. Only 2% of the world's population are twins, and only 0.2% are identical twins. Why have a singleton when you can double the kids for double the fun?

While twins may be unusual, some researchers suggest that as many as one in eight pregnancies begin as twins. However, in these cases, only one fetus may be brought to full term as the other disintegrates. This is known as "Vanishing Twin Syndrome." This list of royal twins in history includes all types of twins, and they have all done something notable.

  • Prince Jaime, Count Of Bardi

    Prince Jaime, Count Of Bardi

    Prince Jaime Bernardo of Bourbon-Parma, Count of Bardi (born 13 October 1972) is the second son and third child of Princess Irene of the Netherlands and Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma. He is a member of the Royal and Ducal House of Bourbon-Parma, and also an extended member of the Dutch Royal Family and a Dutch nobleman with the title Prince de Bourbon de Parme. The title "Count of Bardi" is not recognized within the Dutch nobility. From 2014 to 2018 he was the Dutch ambassador to the Holy See.
    • Age: 52
    • Birthplace: Nijmegen, Kingdom of the Netherlands
  • Prince Wolfgang Of Hesse

    Prince Wolfgang Of Hesse

    Prince Wolfgang of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) (Wolfgang Moritz; 6 November 1896 – 12 July 1989) was the designated Hereditary Prince of the monarchy of Finland (with the irredentist pretension to Estonia), and as such, already called the Crown Prince of Finland officially until 14 December 1918, and also afterwards by some monarchists. Wolfgang was born at Castle Rumpenheim, Offenbach am Main. He was the second-born of a pair of twins, the fourth child and son born to Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse (1868–1940) and Princess Margaret of Prussia (1872–1954). His maternal uncle was the German Emperor William II. Wolfgang's father Frederick Charles of Hesse was elected King of Finland on 9 October 1918, to replace his first cousin once removed, the deposed Russian emperor, Nicholas II, who was titled Grand Duke of Finland. However, Frederick Charles renounced the throne on 14 December 1918, and the title was never actually held by the family. Wolfgang would have been his father's heir as King of Finland instead of his elder twin Prince Philipp of Hesse (1896–1980), apparently because Wolfgang was with his parents in 1918 and ready to travel to Finland (where a wedding to a Finnish lady was reportedly being prepared for the coming Crown Prince). Philipp was on active service and incommunicado at the time. Wolfgang married on 17 September 1924 Princess Marie Alexandra of Baden (1902–1944), daughter of Prince Maximilian of Baden and Princess Marie Louise of Hanover; they had no children. Wolfgang adopted his nephew, Prince Karl Adolf of Hesse (born 1937), elder son of his younger brother Christoph who was killed in action in 1943. At the time of his death in Frankfurt at the age of 92, Wolfgang was the only surviving great-grandchild of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom who had been born in her lifetime. Victoria died in 1901 when Wolfgang was four years old.
    • Age: Dec. at 92 (1896-1989)
    • Birthplace: Offenbach, Germany
  • Princess Margarita Of Bourbon-Parma

    Princess Margarita Of Bourbon-Parma

    Princess Margarita Maria Beatriz of Bourbon-Parma, Countess of Colorno (Dutch: Margarita Maria Beatrix Prinses de Bourbon de Parme; born 13 October 1972), is the eldest daughter of Princess Irene of the Netherlands and Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma, and is member of the Royal and Ducal House of Bourbon-Parma, as well of the Dutch Royal Family.
    • Age: 52
    • Birthplace: Nijmegen, Kingdom of the Netherlands

  • Archduchess Monika Of Austria

    Monika von Habsburg (née Monika Maria Roberta Antonia Raphaela Habsburg-Lothringen), Duchess de Santangelo (born 13 September 1954, in Würzburg), the daughter of Otto von Habsburg and Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen.
    • Age: 70
    • Birthplace: Würzburg, Germany
  • Lucilla

    Lucilla

    Annia Aurelia Galeria Lucilla or Lucilla (March 7, 148 or 150 – 182) was the second daughter and third child of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius and Roman Empress Faustina the Younger. She was the wife of her father's co-ruler Lucius Verus and an elder sister to later Emperor Commodus. Commodus ordered Lucilla's execution after a failed assassination and coup attempt when she was about 33 years old.
    • Age: Dec. at 32 (150-182)
    • Birthplace: Rome, Italy

  • Archduchess Michaela Of Austria

    Michaela von Habsburg (Michaela Maria Madeleine Kiliana Habsburg-Lothringen) was born 13 September 1954, in Würzburg. She is the twin sister of Monika von Habsburg, and daughter of Otto von Habsburg and Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen.
    • Age: 70
    • Birthplace: Würzburg, Germany