Louise-Marie of France

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Marie-Louise of France
Queen of the Belgians
Queen Louise-Marie of Belgium painted by Franz Winterhalter
Titles	HM The Queen of the Belgians (1832-1850) HRH Princess Marie-Louise of France (1830-1832)
Born	April 3, 1812(1812-04-03)
Birthplace	Palermo, Sicily
Died	October 11, 1850 (aged 38)
Place of death	Ostend, Belgium
Consort	August 9, 1832 - October 11, 1850
Consort to	Leopold I
Issue	Louis-Philippe, Leopold II, Philippe, Charlotte, Empress-Consort of Mexico
Royal House	House of Orleans
Father	Louis-Philippe of France
Mother	Maria Amalia of the Two Sicilies

Louise-Marie, Queen of the Belgians (Marie-Louise Thérèse Charlotte Isabelle d'Orléans) - fille de France, and Queen of the Belgians as the wife of King Leopold I.

[edit] Life

Born in Palermo, Sicily on April 3, 1812, she was the eldest daughter of the future King Louis-Phillippe of the French and his wife Maria Amalia of the Two Sicilies.

On August 9, 1832, Marie-Louise married King Leopold I of the Belgians at the Château de Compiègne, France. She and Leopold had four children, including Leopold II of Belgium and Empress Carlota of Mexico.

Louis-Philippe Léopold Victor Ernst of Belgium, born on July 24, 1833, but died the following year on May 16, 1834;
Léopold Louis-Philippe Marie Victor of Saxe-Coburg, born in Brussels on April 9, 1835, the second King of the Belgians;
Philippe Eugène Ferdinand Marie Clément Baudouin Léopold George, Count of Flanders, born in Laken on March 24, 1837 and died in Brussels on November 17, 1905, whose son succeeded Leopold II as Albert.
Marie-Charlotte Amélie Auguste Victoire Clémentine Léopoldine, born in Laken on June 7, 1840 and died in Meise on January 19, 1927, Consort of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico.

Queen Marie-Louise died of tuberculosis in Ostend on October 11, 1850. She is buried beside her husband in Royal Crypt of the Church of Notre-Dame de Laken.