Princess ''Marie Louise'' Ferdinande Charlotte Henriette of Orléans (31 December 1896 – 8 March 1973) was a Princess of Orléans by birth and a

Princess of Bourbon-Two Sicilies The House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies is a cadet branch of the House of Bourbon that ruled Southern Italy and Sicily for more than a century in the 18th and 19th centuries. It descends from the Capetian dynasty in legitimate male line through Phi ...

through her marriage to Prince Philip of Bourbon-Two Sicilies.

Family

Princess Marie Louise was born on 31 December 1896 in

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. She was the eldest daughter and child of Prince Emmanuel of Orléans, Duke of Vendôme and his wife,

Princess Henriette of Belgium Princess Henriette of Belgium (30 November 1870 – 28 March 1948), was the daughter of Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders, and Princess Marie of Hohenzollern. She was the younger twin sister of Princess Joséphine Marie of Belgium, who died at th ...

. Her paternal grandparents were

Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Alençon Ferdinand Philippe Marie d'Orléans, duc d'Alençon (12 July 1844 – 29 June 1910) was the son of Louis Charles Philippe Raphael d'Orléans, Duke of Nemours and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (a first cousin of Queen Victoria). E ...

and

Duchess Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria Duchess Sophie Charlotte Auguste in Bavaria (22 February 1847 – 4 May 1897) was a granddaughter-in-law of King Louis Philippe of France, the youngest sister of Empress Elisabeth of Austria and fiancée of King Ludwig II of Bavaria. L ...

and her maternal grandparents were

Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders Prince Philippe of Belgium, Count of Flanders (; 24 March 1837 – 17 November 1905), was the third born and second surviving son of King Leopold I of Belgium and Louise d'Orléans. He was the brother of Leopold II of Belgium and Empress Carlo ...

and

Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen Princess Marie Luise Alexandra Karoline of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (17 November 1845 – 26 November 1912), later Countess of Flanders, was a princess of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, later simply of Hohenzollern. She married Prince Philippe, Count ...

. She was a great-granddaughter of Leopold I, the first king of Belgium, and a great-great-granddaughter of

Louis Philippe I Louis Philippe I (6 October 1773 – 26 August 1850), nicknamed the Citizen King, was King of the French from 1830 to 1848, the penultimate monarch of France, and the last French monarch to bear the title "King". He abdicated from his throne ...

, the last

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Marriage and issue

Marie Louise married firstly to Prince Philip of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, tenth child of Prince Alfonso of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Count of Caserta, and his wife, Princess Antonietta of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, on 12 January 1916 at her father's home in

. The couple had one child before their divorce in 1925: * Prince ''Gaetano'' Maria Alfonso Enrico Paolo of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1917–1984), who married Olivia Yarrow, a daughter of Lt.-Cdr. Charles A. Yarrow, on 16 February 1946, and had two sons.McNaughton, C. Arnold. ''The Book of Kings: A Royal Genealogy, in 3 volumes'' (London, U.K.: Garnstone Press, 1973), volume 1, page 443. Marie Louise married secondly to Walter F. Kingsland Jr. (1888-1961), a prominent New York businessman, on 12 December 1928 in

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, England. His father owned a "palatial home in the

Bois de Boulogne The Bois de Boulogne (, "Boulogne woodland") is a large public park that is the western half of the 16th arrondissement of Paris, near the suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt and Neuilly-sur-Seine. The land was ceded to the city of Paris by the Em ...

" and his grandfather was

Ambrose Kingsland Ambrose Cornelius Kingsland (May 24, 1804 – October 13, 1878) was a wealthy sperm oil merchant who served as the 71st mayor of New York City from 1851 to 1853. In 1851, he initiated the legislation that eventually led to the construction of Ce ...

, the former

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. Marie Louise and Walter did not have children, and lived in

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, for twenty years. Marie Louise died on 8 March 1973 in

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Descendants

Through her only son Prince Gaetano, she was the grandmother of two grandsons: Adrian Philip de Bourbon (b. 1948), who married Linda Idensohn on 20 March 1976, and Gregory Peter de Bourbon (b. 1950), who married, firstly, Maureen Powell on 15 May 1971. They divorced in 1986. They have two sons. He remarried to Carrie Anne Thornley on 30 August 1986.

Gallery

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Ancestry

References

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