House Orleans Name Princess Isabelle | Role Infanta of Spain | |
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Issue Amelie, Queen of PortugalPhilippe, Duke of OrleansPrincess Helene, Duchess of AostaPrincess Isabelle, Duchess of GuiseLouise, Infanta Carlos of SpainPrince Ferdinand, Duke of Montpensier Mother Infanta Luisa Fernanda of Spain Children Princess Isabelle of Orleans Parents Infanta Luisa Fernanda, Duchess of Montpensier, Antoine, Duke of Montpensier Siblings Mercedes of Orleans, Infante Antonio, Duke of Galliera Similar People Princess Isabelle of Orleans, Prince Philippe - Count of, Princess Helene of Orleans, Antoine - Duke of Montpensier, Infanta Luisa Fernanda | ||
Marie Isabelle de Orléans y de Borbón (María Isabel Francisca de Asís Antonia Luisa Fernanda Cristina Amelia Felipa Adelaida Josefa Elena Enriqueta Carolina Justina Rufina Gasparina Melchora Baltasara Matea; 21 September 1848 – 23 April 1919) was born an infanta of Spain and a Princess of Orléans and became the Countess of Paris by marriage.
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Biography
She was born in Seville to Prince Antoine, Duke of Montpensier and Infanta Luisa Fernanda of Spain. Antoine was the youngest son of Louis-Philippe I, the last King of France, and Maria Amalia of the Two Sicilies. Infanta Luisa was the daughter of Ferdinand VII of Spain and her grandfather's fourth wife Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies. All four of her grandparents and seven of her eight great-grandparents were members of the French Royal House of Bourbon.
Marriage and issue
On 30 May 1864, she married her cousin Philippe d'Orléans, claimant to the French throne as Philippe VII. They had eight children:
Forced to leave France, Marie Isabelle and her husband first lived in England, where her grandfather Louis-Philippe I had lived after his abdication in 1848. In 1871 they were allowed to return to France, where they lived in the Hôtel Matignon in Paris and in the château d'Eu in Normandy.
In 1886, they were forced to leave France for a second time. In 1894, her husband died in exile at Stowe House in Buckinghamshire. Marie Isabelle lived in the Randan château in France, and died in 1919 at her palace in Villamanrique de la Condesa, near Seville.
Titles and styles
France
Spain