Princess Louise of Orléans
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| Princess Louise of Orléans | |
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| Princess Louise of Bourbon-Two Sicilies | |
| Spouse | Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies |
| Issue | |
| Prince Carlos Princess Maria de los Dolores Princess Maria de las Mercedes Princess Maria de la Esperanza |
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| Full name | |
| French: Louise Françoise Marie Laure | |
| House | House of Orléans House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies |
| Father | Prince Philippe, Count of Paris |
| Mother | Princess Marie Isabelle of Orléans |
| Born | 24 February 1882 Cannes, France |
| Died | 18 April 1958 (aged 76) Seville, Spain |
Princess Louise Françoise Marie Laure of Orléans[1] (born 24 February 1882 in Cannes, France [1]; died 18 April 1958 in Seville, Spain [1]) was a Princess of the Two-Sicilies and maternal grandmother of King Juan Carlos I of Spain.
Louise was the youngest daughter [1] of Philippe of Orléans (1838-1894), Count of Paris and claimant to the French throne as "Philippe VII". Her mother was Princess Marie Isabelle of Orléans (1848-1919), daughter of Antoine, Duke of Montpensier and Infanta Luisa Fernanda of Spain. [1]
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[edit] Marriage and issue
On 16 November 1907, Louise married in Wood Norton, Evesham, Worcestershire, England Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1870-1949), Prince of Bourbon-Two Sicilies and widower of Mercedes, Princess of Asturias, Infanta of Spain.[1] The couple lived in Madrid and had 4 children:[1]
- Don Carlo of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1908-1936). Killed in the Spanish Civil War fighting on the Nationalist side.
- Doña Maria de los Dolores of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1909-1996). In 1937, she married Prince Augustyn Józef Czartoryski (1907-1946) and had one surviving son, Adam. She remarried to Carlos Chias on 1950.
- Doña Maria Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1910-2000) who married Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona and became the mother of current reining King Juan Carlos I of Spain.
- Doña Maria de la Esperanza of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1914-2005), who married Prince Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza.
[edit] Later life
In 1931, when the Spanish Republic was proclaimed, the family left Spain for Italy and later Switzerland. In 1939, after the victory of Franco in the Spanish civil War they returned to Spain and settled in Seville.
[edit] Ancestry
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e f g Darryl Lundy (10 March 2007). "Louise Françoise Marie Laure d'Orléans, Prince de France". thePeerage.com. http://thepeerage.com/p10328.htm#i103276. Retrieved on 2008-10-03.
- Généalogie des rois et des princes by Jan-Charles Volkmann Edit. Jean-Paul Gisserot (1998)
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