Kardam, Prince of Tarnovo, Duke in Saxony[1] (2 December 1962 – 7 April 2015) was the eldest son of Tsar Simeon II of Bulgaria and his wife, Doña Margarita Gómez-Acebo y Cejuela.
In Madrid, on 11 July 1996, Kardam married Miriam Ungría y López, born in Madrid on 2 September 1963, a gemologist and daughter of Bernardo Ungría y Goiburu, a patent and trademark attorney[2] and honorary president of the Colegio Heráldico de España y de las Indias[2] and his wife, María del Carmen López y Oleaga, both of Basque descent.
They had two sons, who are first and second, respectively, in the line of succession to the now-defunct Bulgarian throne:[citation needed] On 15 August 2008, Kardam and his wife were involved in a serious car wreck in El Molar, near Madrid.
According to doctors at the Doce de Octubre Hospital, Kardam was being kept in an induced coma in August, his hands were paralysed, and reports mentioned that he had lost two fingers.
Former King and Prime Minister Simeon II and his sister Princess Maria Louisa objected to the summons on the grounds that Kardam was incapacitated.