Her husband, Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia, was the second son of King Alfonso XIII and the Legitimist pretender to the former French throne.

She was the eldest daughter of the French nobleman Roger de Dampierre, 2nd Duke of San Lorenzo Nuovo, Vicomte de Dampierre and the Italian noblewoman and HSH, the painter Princess Vittoria Emilia Ipsycrathea Agricola Ruspoli, a daughter of Emanuele Ruspoli, 1st Prince of Poggio Suasa.

She grew up in Paris until her parents divorced in 1930, at which time she returned with her mother to the Palazzo Ruspoli to live with her grandmother Josephine, Princess of Poggio Suasa.

On 4 March 1935, she married Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia, a member of the Spanish royal family, at the Church of Sant'Ignazio in Rome.

[3][1] In 2003, Emanuelle published a memoir titled Memorias: Esposa y madre de los Borbones que pudieron reinar en España.