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On 9 August 1832, the twenty-year-old Louise married King Leopold I of the Belgians, who was twenty-two years her senior, at the Compiègne Palace. Leopold had been widowed after the death of his first wife, Princess Charlotte of Wales, in childbirth in 1817. Since Leopold was a Protestant, he and Louise had both a Catholic and a Calvinist ...
Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg: 11. Duchess Louise Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Schwerin: 1. Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany: 12. George III of the United Kingdom: 6. Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn: 13. Duchess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz: 3. Victoria of the United Kingdom: 14. Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (= 8) 7.
Princess Louise Françoise Marie Laure of Orléans [citation needed] (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 [ citation needed ] of Philippe d'Orléans (1838–1894), Count of Paris and claimant to the French throne as ...
Leopold I [b] (born Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld; 16 December 1790 – 10 December 1865) was the first king of the Belgians, reigning from 21 July 1831 until his death in 1865. The youngest son of Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld , Leopold took a commission in the Imperial Russian Army and fought against Napoleon after French ...
At the time of his birth, his grandfather Leopold, formerly a Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, was the reigning king of Belgium. Leopold was preceded in birth by one sister, Princess Louise, and followed by two more sisters, Princess Stéphanie, and Princess Clémentine, who was born after Leopold's death, their parents' last hope for another son.
He married a French princess Louise of Orléans in 1832. He was also the widower of Princess Charlotte of Wales, who had died in 1817, as well as the uncle of Queen Victoria. [3] The painting was commissioned by Leopold's father-in-law Louis Philippe I for the Musée de l'Histoire de France at the recently refurbished Palace of Versailles. [4]
Louise of Valois (c. 1515 – 1518), daughter of Francis I, King of France and French princess; Louise of France (1737–1787), daughter of Louis XV, King of France and French princess; Louise of Orléans (1812–1850), queen consort of Leopold I, King of the Belgians and princess of Orléans by birth
Princess Marie Louise was born on 31 December 1896 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France.She was the eldest daughter and child of Prince Emmanuel of Orléans, Duke of Vendôme and his wife, Princess Henriette of Belgium.