Jean d'Orléans, Duc de Guise (1874-1940) and his family

[KaiserinIII]

Isabelle, Duchesse de Guise

[Eric_Lowe]

Nice profile shot of her. She looks young here...trying to date it.

[Превед]

The duc de Guise wrote a charming little book about his time in the Danish army, now available online: Sous le Danebrog : souvenirs de la vie militaire en Danemark 1894-1899. It paints Christian IX's Denmark as an idyll straight out of a Hans Christian Andersen tale.

[KaiserinIII]

Their mother, Princess Isabelle Duchess of Guise (1878-1961), left here photographed with her sister-in-law Marie d'Orléans, Princess Valdemar of Denmark :




A story circulating about Isabelle of France, that the old Emperor Franz Joseph, Sisi became a widower in 1898, thought a while, despite the age difference, to remarry with the lovely young Princess.

But the union did not take place and Isabelle married the same year her cousin Jean, Duke of Guise.

From the same photoshoot

[Eric_Lowe]

Both were wearing lovely chokers.