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Louise Marie Thérèse Charlotte Isabelle of Orléans, called Louise-Marie of France (April 3, 1812 - October 11, 1850) was fille de France, and Queen of the Belgians as the wife of King Leopold I. She is an ancestor of the present King of Belgium, Italian Royal Pretender (Prince of Naples), the Grand Duke of Luxembourg and the present Prince Napoléon - head of the Imperial House of France.
Born Louise Marie Thérèse Charlotte Isabelle d'Orléans in Palermo, Sicily on April 3, 1812, she was the eldest daughter of the future King Louis-Phillippe of the French and his wife Maria Amalia of the Two Sicilies. As a child she had a rather pious and Bourgeoise education thanks to the part played by her mother and her aunt, Louise Marie Adélaïde Eugénie d'Orléans whom she was very close to.
Through her father she was a descendant of the famous Philippe Égalité; Philippe II d'Orléans - Regent of France for Louis XV - and both the sons of Louis XIII of France. Another famous ancestor was Madame de Montespan. Through her mother she was a descendant of Maria Theresa of Austria and also Catherine de' Medici. On August 9, 1830, while the age of 18, Marie-Louise of Orléans became a Fille de France due to her father becoming the new King of the French.
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On 9 August, 1832, Marie-Louise married King Leopold I of the Belgians at the Château de Compiègne, in Compiègne, France. She and Leopold had four children, including Leopold II of Belgium and Empress Carlota of Mexico. Since Leopold was a protestant, they had both a Catholic and a Calvinist ceremony.
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- Prince Louis Philippe Léopold Victor Ernst of Belgium (July 24, 1833 - May 16, 1834)
- Was Crown Prince of Belgium from his birth till his death in infancy;
- Prince Léopold Louis Philippe Marie Victor of Belgium, (Brussels, April 9, 1835 - December 17, 1909)
- First married Marie Henriette of Austria; then engaged secretly in a religious ceremony Blanche Zélia Joséphine Delacroix;
- Was the second King of the Belgians;
- Prince Philippe Eugène Ferdinand Marie Clément Baudouin Léopold George of Belgium, Count of Flanders (Laken on March 24, 1837 - Brussels on November 17, 1905)
- Princess Marie Charlotte Amélie Auguste Victoire Clémentine Léopoldine of Belgium, (Laken on June 7, 1840 - Meise on January 19, 1927)
She was the 298th Dame of the Royal Order of Queen Maria Luisa on 10 February 1835. A devoted wife and loving mother, she was of a very shy nature and was often only seen in public when her husband forced her. She soon proved to be very popular at the Belgian court with her famous generosity and beauty. Queen Marie-Louise died of tuberculosis in Ostend on 11 October 1850. She is buried beside her husband in Royal Crypt of the Church of Notre-Dame de Laeken.
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Princess Louise Marie
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Isabelle, Countess of Schönborn-Buchheim · Hélène, Countess Evrard of Limburg-Stirum · Anne, Duchess of Calabria · Diane, Duchess of Württemberg · Claude, Duchess of Aosta · Chantal, Baroness François Xavier de Sambucy de Sorgue · Gerarda, Marchioness of Marchelina · Beatriz, Countess Tomasso Farini
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Isabelle, Princess Gundakar of Liechtenstein · Princess Blanche · Princess Clothilde, Mrs. Edouard Crépy · Princess Adélaïde, Mrs. Pierre-Louis Dailly · Diane, Viscountess Alexander of Noailles · Princess Pilar, Mrs. Nicholas Henderson-Stewart · Princess Eulalia
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Princess Thérèse Isabelle · Princess Louise Marie · Princesse Hélène · Princess Isabelle
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