Princess Louise of Orléans

This article is about the daughter of Prince Philippe, Count of Paris. For the consort of Leopold I, King of the Belgians, see Louise of Orléans. For the daughter of Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Alençon, see Louise d'Orléans (1869–1952).

Princess Louise
Princess Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
Born	(1882-02-24)24 February 1882 Cannes, France
Died	18 April 1958(1958-04-18) (aged 76) Seville, Spain
Burial	Iglesia Colegial del Divino Salvador, Seville
Spouse	Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies ​ ​ (m. 1907; died 1949)​
Issue	Prince Carlos Dolores, Princess Augustyn Józef Czartoryski Infanta Mercedes, Countess of Barcelona Esperanza, Princess Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza
Names French: Louise Françoise Marie Laure
House	Orléans
Father	Prince Philippe, Count of Paris
Mother	Princess Marie Isabelle of Orléans

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.

Louise was the youngest daughter of Philippe d'Orléans (1838–1894), Count of Paris 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, and Infanta Luisa Fernanda of Spain.

Marriage and issue

On 16 November 1907, Louise married in Wood Norton, Evesham, Worcestershire, UK, Infante Carlos, Prince of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1870–1949), and widower of María de las Mercedes, Princess of Asturias. The couple lived in Madrid and had 4 children:

• Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1908–1936). Killed in the Spanish Civil War 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 (1910–2000) who married Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona 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 (1914–2005), who married Prince Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza.

Later life

In 1931, when the Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed, the family left Spain for Italy and later Switzerland. In 1939, after the victory of Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War, they returned to Spain and settled in Seville.

Heraldry

• Heraldry of Princess Louise of Orléans
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  Coat of Arms of Princess Louise as Infanta of Spain

Ancestry

Ancestors of Princess Louise of Orléans

8. Louis Philippe I of France 4. Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans 9. Princess Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily 2. Prince Philippe, Count of Paris 10. Frederick Louis, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin 5. Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin 11. Princess Caroline Louise of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach 1. Princess Louise of Orléans 12. Louis Philippe I of France (= 8) 6. Prince Antoine, Duke of Montpensier 13. Princess Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily (= 9) 3. Princess Marie Isabelle of Orléans 14. Ferdinand VII of Spain 7. Infanta Luisa Fernanda of Spain 15. Princess Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies

References

• Généalogie des rois et des princes by Jan-Charles Volkmann Edit. Jean-Paul Gisserot (1998)