Princess Maria Francesca of Savoy (Maria Francesca Anna Romana; 26 December 1914 – 4 December 2001)[1] was the youngest daughter of Victor Emmanuel III of Italy and Elena of Montenegro.

She was a sister of Umberto II of Italy and of Tsaritsa Giovanna of Bulgaria.

Maria Francesca was born in Rome as the fifth and youngest child of her parents.

On 23 January 1939, in the Pauline Chapel of the Quirinal Palace in Rome, Maria Francesca married Prince Luigi of Bourbon-Parma (1899–1967), a younger son of Robert I, Duke of Parma, and Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal.

[3] Maria was interned with her husband and two elder children by the Nazis during World War II.