From an old doctor, who is also interested in Napoleon and his ansistors, and who wrote a book, won a price, and got to know Prince Napoléon (note: Even if you don´t accept it: The official title of the family, who is Napoleon´s heir is not "Bonaparte", but Prince Napoléon) told me that even today, after all these years the relations between the Bourbons (Orléans) and the Bonaparte family are still not without problems, which I would not have expected in our modern times, but I am of the opinion that in the coming years the relations surely will not become worse, but better, because times are changing. To the time of Prince Louis Napoleon, who was quite conservative it was said (so a text what our dearest member @Benjamin once posted here) that Henri of Orleans and Louis Napoleon would never have said something against each other in public, but in fact, when both were invited to the same festival only one of the two appeared. So there was still some sceptism and some dislike (because of the history, which is paradox because both are distant cousins with the same blood), but I hope that in future the relations will change for the better, because Charles Napoleon (and even more his son, I suppose) are very modern in their views.
