Marie Amélie (April 26, 1782, Caserta – March 24, 1866, Claremont), born Maria Amalia Teresa, Princess of Naples and Sicily (later "the Two Sicilies"), was Queen of the French as the consort of King Louis Philippe. One of nine children, her father was King Ferdinand IV & III of Naples and Sicily (later Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies), and her mother was Maria Carolina of Austria, daughter of Empress Maria Theresa and closest sister of Marie Antoinette. (When she was a small child, her mother and aunt affianced her to her French cousin, the first son of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, but the dauphin Louis Joseph died in 1789 at the age of 7.) Her youth and early adulthood were fraught with upheaval and exile, owing to repercussions felt in Italy from the French Revolution and the rise of Napoléon. In 1809 she married Louis Philippe, duc d'Orléans. (He was no stranger to upheaval and exile himself; the previous duc d'Orléans, his father, was the infamous "Philippe Égalité", powerful early supporter of the Revolution who eventually voted for the execution of his cousin Louis XVI, but was, nonetheless, himself a victim of the Reign of Terror.) Together they had 10 children, 8 of whom survived to adulthood. The so-called July Revolution of 1830 marked the fall of the unpopular Bourbon Restoration and Louis Philippe was proclaimed King of the French. His pious queen showed no interest in politics and devoted herself to her husband and her children. (http://godsandfoolishgrandeur.blogspot.nl/search?updated-max=2014-01-09T07:00:00-08:00&max-results=10&start=10&by-date=false)