Princess Isabelle of Orléans (1900–1983)

Princess Isabelle Françoise Hélène Marie of Orléans (27 November 1900, Nouvion-en-Thiérache, France – 12 February 1983, Neuilly, France) was member of the House of Orléans and by marriage Countess of Harcourt.

The daughter of Prince Jean, Duke of Guise (1874–1940), Orleanist pretender to the French throne, and his wife Princess Isabelle of Orléans.

Marriages

She married at Le Chesnay, on 12 September 1913, French aristocrat Bruno, Count of Harcourt (1899–1930), son of Count Eugene of Harcourt and Armande of Pierre de Bernis. Bruno was an automobile racer and he died on a practice for the Moroccan Grand Prix.

They had four children:

• Bernard d'Harcourt, Count of Harcourt (1925–1958).
• Gilone d'Harcourt (1927), who married Antoine of Dreux-Brézé.
• Isabelle d'Harcourt (1927–1993), who married prince Louis Murat.
• Monique d'Harcourt (1929).

As a widow, Isabelle remarried Prince Pierre Murat (1900–1948) in 1934, at Jouy-en-Josas.

Ancestry