Artwork Title: Miniature of the Duchesse d'Aumale  with the Prince de Condé and with the Duc de Guise on her lap

Miniature of the Duchesse d'Aumale with the Prince de Condé and with the Duc de Guise on her lap

Sir William Ross

Artwork Title: Miniature of the Duchesse d'Aumale  with the Prince de Condé and with the Duc de Guise on her lapArtwork Title: Miniature of the Duchesse d'Aumale  with the Prince de Condé and with the Duc de Guise on her lap
Henri Eugène Philippe Louis d'Orléans, duc d'Aumale (16 January 1822, Paris - 7 May 1897, Lo Zucco, Sicily), fifth son of King Louis-Philippe I of the French and Queen Marie Amélie. At the age of eight years old, only three weeks after his father was proclaimed king, he inherited a vast fortune, including the Château de Chantilly and other estates, from his godfather, Louis Henri de Bourbon, the last prince de Condé. At the age of seventeen he entered the army with the rank of a captain of infantry, and later distinguished himself during the French invasion of Algeria; in 1847 he became lieutenant-general and was appointed Governor-General of Algeria, a position he held until his father's abdication the following February. On 25 November 1844, in Naples, he married Maria Carolina Auguste di Borbone, principessa delle Due Sicilie (26 April 1822, Vienna - 6 December 1869, Twickenham), the only surviving child of Prince Leopold of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Prince of Salerno and his wife (and niece) Archduchess Maria Clementina of Austria, daughter of Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor. The bride and groom were first cousins; her father was the brother of Queen Marie Amélie. There was a shortage of marriageable Catholic princesses at the time, and Maria Carolina - called "Lina" from birth - had had several suitors. Typically, the union wasn't a love match; the groom was unenthusiastic, but his parents forced the issue. The couple would nonetheless form a bond of mutual respect, and by her kindness and charm, she would gain the love of her adopted family. The duchesse d'Aumale would give birth seven times, but the story of her children is a tragic one. A daughter and two sons were stillborn, another son would only live for a month, a fourth son would only live for three months. Her eldest son, Louis, prince de Condé, having been in ill-health, began a long sea voyage in 1866, at the age of twenty. At first, the journey - through Egypt, to Ceylon, and on to Australia - produced the hoped for improvement in his health but, later, his condition rapidly deteriorated, and he died in Sydney. At the news, his mother plunged into a deep depression from which she never fully recovered. After a long illness, she died of tuberculosis three years later at the age of 47. Finally, three years after that, the couple's only surviving child, François, duc de Guise, died at the age of 18. (http://godsandfoolishgrandeur.blogspot.nl/2017/04/marriage-and-exile-portraits-of-duc-and.html)
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