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Orléans Orléans (;"Orleans"
(US) and Prince Philippe, Count of Paris Prince Philippe of Orléans, Count of Paris (Louis Philippe Albert; 24 August 1838 – 8 September 1894), was disputedly King of the French from 24 to 26 February 1848 as Louis Philippe II, although he was never officially proclaimed as such. ...

, mother = Infanta Maria Isabel of Spain , birth_date = , birth_place =

Cannes Cannes ( , , ; oc, Canas) is a city located on the French Riviera. It is a commune located in the Alpes-Maritimes department, and host city of the annual Cannes Film Festival, Midem, and Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. T ...

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Seville Seville (; es, Sevilla, ) is the capital and largest city of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville. It is situated on the lower reaches of the River Guadalquivir, in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula ...

, Spain , burial_place = Iglesia Colegial del Divino Salvador, Seville , religion = Roman Catholicism Princess Louise Françoise Marie Laure of Orléans (24 February 1882 – 18 April 1958) was a Princess of the Two-Sicilies and paternal great grandmother of King

Felipe VI of Spain Felipe VI (;, * eu, Felipe VI.a, * ca, Felip VI, * gl, Filipe VI, . Felipe Juan Pablo Alfonso de Todos los Santos de Borbón y Grecia; born 30 January 1968) is King of Spain. He is the son of former King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofía, and ...

. Louise was the youngest daughter of Philippe d'Orléans (1838–1894),

Count of Paris Count of Paris () was a title for the local magnate of the district around Paris in Carolingian times. After Hugh Capet was elected King of France in 987, the title merged into the crown and fell into disuse. However, it was later revived by the ...

and claimant to the French throne as " Philippe VII". Her mother was Princess Marie Isabelle d'Orléans (1848–1919), daughter of

Antoine, Duke of Montpensier es, Antonio María Felipe Luis de Orleans , birth_date = , birth_place = Château de Neuilly, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France , death_date = , death_place = Palacio de Orléans-Borbón, Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain , date of burial = , plac ...

, and Infanta Luisa Fernanda of Spain.

Marriage and issue

On 16 November 1907, Louise married in Wood Norton, Evesham,

Worcestershire Worcestershire ( , ; written abbreviation: Worcs) is a county in the West Midlands of England. The area that is now Worcestershire was absorbed into the unified Kingdom of England in 927, at which time it was constituted as a county (see H ...

, UK, Infante Carlos, Prince of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1870–1949), and widower of

María de las Mercedes, Princess of Asturias María de las Mercedes, Princess of Asturias (''María de las Mercedes de Borbón y Habsburgo-Lorena''; 11 September 1880 – 17 October 1904) was the eldest child of King Alfonso XII of Spain and his second wife, Maria Christina of Austria. ...

. The couple lived in Madrid and had 4 children: * Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1908–1936). Killed in the

Spanish Civil War The Spanish Civil War ( es, Guerra Civil Española)) or The Revolution ( es, La Revolución, link=no) among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War ( es, Cuarta Guerra Carlista, link=no) among Carlists, and The Rebellion ( es, La Rebelión, link ...

fighting on the Nationalist side. * Princess María 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 Chías Ossorio on 1950. *

Princess María de las Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies Princess María de las Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Countess of Barcelona (María de las Mercedes Cristina Genara Isabel Luisa Carolina Victoria y Todos los Santos de Borbón y Orléans ; 23 December 1910 – 2 January 2000) was a Spanis ...

(1910–2000) who married

Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona (Juan Carlos Teresa Silverio Alfonso de Borbón y Battenberg; 20 June 1913 – 1 April 1993), also known as Don Juan, was a claimant to the Spanish throne as Juan III. He was the third son and designated heir o ...

and became the mother of King Juan Carlos I of Spain, who abdicated in favor of his son in 2014. *

Princess María de la Esperanza of Bourbon-Two Sicilies , image = Princess Maria de la Esperanza of the Two Sicilies in 1922.jpg , caption = , reign = , coronation = , predecessor = , successor = , succession = , spouse = Prince Pedro Gastão of Orléans- ...

(1914–2005), who married

Prince Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza A prince is a male ruler (ranked below a king, grand prince, and grand duke) or a male member of a monarch's or former monarch's family. ''Prince'' is also a title of nobility (often highest), often hereditary, in some European states. The ...

Later life

In 1931, when the

Second Spanish Republic The Spanish Republic (), commonly known as the Second Spanish Republic (), was the form of government in Spain from 1931 to 1939. The Republic was proclaimed on 14 April 1931, after the deposition of King Alfonso XIII, and was dissolved on 1 ...

was proclaimed, the family left Spain for Italy and later Switzerland. In 1939, after the victory of Francisco Franco in the

, they returned to Spain and settled in Seville.

Heraldry

File:Coat of arms of Louise of Orléans (1882–1958) as Spanish Infanta.svg, Coat of Arms of Princess Louise as Infanta of Spain

Ancestry

References

* ''Généalogie des rois et des princes'' by Jan-Charles Volkmann Edit. Jean-Paul Gisserot (1998) {{DEFAULTSORT:Louise Of Orleans, Princess 1882 births 1958 deaths 19th-century French people 20th-century French people 19th-century French women 20th-century French women Princesses of Bourbon-Two Sicilies Princesses of France (Orléans) People from Cannes Children of Prince Philippe, Count of Paris