Prince Jaime Bernardo of Bourbon-Parma, Count of Bardi (born 13 October 1972) is a Dutch diplomat and the second son and third child of Princess Irene of the Netherlands and Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma. He is a member of the House of Bourbon-Parma as well a member of the extended Dutch royal family. From 2014 to 2018, he served as the Dutch ambassador to the Holy See. He was the senior advisor on private sector partnerships at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees until 2021. He then served as the Climate Envoy of the Netherlands for over four years. In 2026 he became Director of the Environment at OECD.
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Early life
Jaime was born in Nijmegen, Netherlands. He has a twin sister, Princess Margarita, who was born one minute earlier. Besides his twin sister, the prince has one elder brother, Carlos, Duke of Parma, and one younger sister, Princess Carolina. Prince Jaime was born six weeks prematurely and stayed with his sister in an incubator at the hospital. Jaime was baptised by Bernardus Johannes Cardinal Alfrink, with his grandfather Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld and his grandmother Princess Madeleine of Bourbon-Parma as his godparents.
In 1981 his parents decided to divorce. Together with his mother and his siblings he moved to the Soestdijk Palace (Baarn), then residence of his grandparents, Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard, where he lived for several years.
