Princess Marie Isabelle of Orléans

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Princess Marie-Isabelle of Orléans (September 21, 1848 – 1919) was an infanta of Spain and Countess of Paris.

She was born in Seville to Antoine, Duke of Montpensier and Infanta Luisa Fernanda. Antoine was the youngest son of Louis-Philippe I, the last King of France, and her maternal grandfather was Ferdinand VII of Spain.

On May 30, 1864, she married her cousin Philippe of Orléans, claimant to the French throne as Philippe VII. They had eight children:

Amélie of Orléans (1865–1951). She married Carlos I of Portugal in 1886.
Prince Louis-Philippe Robert, Duke of Orléans (1869–1926), claimant to the French throne as Philippe VIII.
Princess Hélène of Orléans (1871–1951). She married Emmanuel Philibert, 2nd Duke of Aosta in 1895.
Prince Charles of Orléans (1875–1875).
Princess Isabelle of Orléans (1878–1961). She married Prince Jean of Orléans, Duke of Guise in 1899.
Prince Jacques of Orléans (1880–1881).
Princess Louise of Orléans (1882–1958). She married Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies in 1907. Through her daughter Maria Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, she was the grandmother of King Juan Carlos I of Spain.
Prince Ferdinand of Orléans, Duke of Montpensier (1884–1924). He married Marie Isabelle Gonzales de Olañeta et Ibaretta, 3rd Marchioness of Valdeterrazo in 1921.

Forced to leave France, Marie-Isabelle and her husband first lived in England, where her father 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.