Maria Pia Elena Elisabetta Margherita Milena Mafalda Ludovica Tecla Gennara di Savoia (born 24 September 1934), known as Princess Maria Pia of Savoy, is the eldest daughter of Umberto II of Italy and Marie-José of Belgium.

Her parents, married since 1930, were unhappy together, as her mother confessed in an interview many years later (On n'a jamais été heureux, "We were never happy"), and separated after the Italian monarchy was abolished by plebiscite on 2 June 1946.

Exiled, the family gathered briefly in Portugal, and she and her three younger siblings soon went with their mother to Switzerland while their father remained in the Portuguese Riviera.

Three years after their wedding, Maria Pia gave birth to the couple's set of fraternal twin sons.

Another set of twins was born to Maria Pia during the marriage five years later, this time a girl and boy: The couple were divorced in 1967, and Alexander married Princess Barbara of Liechtenstein, a cousin of that principality's monarch.