Marie Isabelle (1848-1919), Comtesse de Paris

[Marie Isabelle d'Orleans]

This thread is dedicated to Marie Isabelle d'Orleans (1848-1919), Infanta of Spain
- daughter of Duke Antoine of Montpensier and Infanta Luisa Fernanda of Spain
- spouse of Philippe d'Orleans, Count of Paris

All informations, pictures, portraits are welcome. I'm especially looking for some photos about the young Isabelle together with husband and/or children...

Some nice cdv's of my collection are coming soon.

Wedding Day photograph
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Marie-Isabelle_Comtesse_de_Paris.jpg

On May 30, 1864, she married her cousin Philippe of Orléans, claimant to the French throne as Philippe VII. They had eight children:

    * Amélie of Orléans (1865–1951). She married Carlos I of Portugal in 1886.
    * Prince Louis-Philippe Robert, Duke of Orléans (1869–1926), claimant to the French throne as Philippe VIII.
    * Princess Hélène of Orléans (1871–1951). She married Emmanuel Philibert, 2nd Duke of Aosta in 1895.
    * Prince Charles of Orléans (1875–1875).
    * Princess Isabelle of Orléans (1878–1961). She married Prince Jean of Orléans, Duke of Guise in 1899.
    * Prince Jacques of Orléans (1880–1881).
    * Princess Louise of Orléans (1882–1958). She married Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies in 1907. Through her daughter Maria Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, she was the grandmother of King Juan Carlos I of Spain.
    * Prince Ferdinand of Orléans, Duke of Montpensier (1884–1924). He married Marie Isabelle Gonzales de Olañeta et Ibaretta, 3rd Marchioness of Valdeterrazo in 1921.

Forced to leave France, Marie-Isabelle and her husband first lived in England, where her Grandfather Louis-Philippe I had lived after his abdication in 1848. In 1871 they were allowed to return to France, where they lived in the Hôtel Matignon in Paris and in the château d'Eu in Normandy.

In 1886, they were forced to leave France for a second time. In 1894, her husband died in exile at Stowe House in Buckinghamshire. Marie-Isabelle lived in the Randan château in France, and died in 1919 at her palace in Villamanrique de la Condesa, near Seville.

[edit] References Généalogie des rois et des princes by Jean-Charles Volkmann Edit. Jean-Paul Gisserot (1998)

Perhaps this Portrait could be moved over here...go down a few Posts

http://forum.alexanderpalace.org/index.php?topic=2368.30

young Marie Isabelle

with mother Luisa Fernanda

with spouse Philippe

Wonderful pictures, synnadene! But I´am affraid, Isabella was not seen as a beauty...are there any pictures of her with her sisters?

with mother Luisa Fernanda

Actually they look like sisters there. No wonder as Duchess of Montpensier gave a birth to Isabelle in 1848 when being only a 16 years old.

Isabella was not a beauty, but there is something special in her outlook- I don't know how to say, why I like her so much...

my absolute favourite picture about her:

A little detail of a montage about Isabelle with mother and sisters (?) (can somebody identify them?)



young Isabelle

For a long ago I'm searching for a good quality version about the following picture (even photo or lithograph)

Dear Synnadene, thanks for sharing your pictures of Isabel, she´s one of my favourite infantas!
I hope you´ll enjoy this wonderful portrait of Isabel de Orleans Borbon as a child with her pet. It was painted by Federico de Madrazo and I think she´s very cute.

These are two pictures from Oronoz, a spanish site...

Dear Yseult,
thanks for the cute portrait and the wonderful photos! :-)