Tatiana Maria
Majesty
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Sometimes I saw people referring to her mother as Princess Olimpia Torlonia and sometimes as just Donna Olimpia, similar to Paula of Belgium.
Italian noble families frequently assumed unofficial titles for younger sons and daughters even if legally speaking the title was restricted to the eldest son. Thus, the future Queen Paola was technically only a member of a princely family and not a princess herself prior to the abolition of the Italian nobility in 1948, but she was sometimes unofficially known as Princess Paola Ruffo di Calabria.
Her mother is aristocratic so she is descending from aristocrats through her. But we are discussing royal/royal marriages here and from that she is far away, despite being the great-granddaughter of a spanish King.
Given that marriages to (upper-class) commoners with no particular royal or noble ancestry is now the norm for European royalty, though, I think it is reasonable to also classify marriages to nobles and other near-royals as exceptional in the same context.