[2] His godparents were Don Juan and Princess Doña Mercedes de Borbón-Dos Sicilias y Orléans, Count and Countess of Barcelona.

Prince Jorge de Bagration, a Spanish race car driver and pretender to the throne of Georgia, was his elder half brother.

Although born in Tbilisi, his father left Georgia after completing his studies there, lived briefly in Italy and France,[1] but acquired Spanish citizenship in 1947.

[3] His mother had been born in Madrid, and although part of her youth was spent in exile in the Basses Pyrénées of France,[2] Bagrat was raised, along with Jorge and his elder sister Princess Mariam (born 1947), by his widowed father in Madrid and at the Palacio de Santillana del Mar in Santander.

[citation needed] Bagrat married Doña María del Carmen de Ulloa y Suelves (b.