Princess Louise of Orléans

Louise d'Orléans^[1] (24 February 1882 – 18 April 1958) was a Princess of the Two-Sicilies and maternal grandmother of King Juan Carlos I of Spain.

Louise was the youngest daughter ^[1] 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.^[1]

Marriage and issue

On 16 November 1907, Louise married in Wood Norton, Evesham, Worcestershire, England Prince Carlos of the Two Sicilies (1870–1949), Prince of the Two Sicilies and widower of Mercedes, Princess of Asturias, Infanta of Spain.^[1] The couple lived in Madrid and had 4 children:^[1]

• Don Carlos of the Two Sicilies (1908–1936). Killed in the Spanish Civil War fighting on the Nationalist side.
• Doña María de los Dolores of the 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.
• Doña María de las Mercedes of the Two Sicilies (1910–2000) who married Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona and became the mother of current reigning King Juan Carlos I of Spain.
• Doña María de la Esperanza of the Two Sicilies (1914–2005), who married Prince Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza.

Later life

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

Ancestry

References

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