Toen Lodewijk Filips koning werd, werd de titel van zijn achttienjarige dochter opgewaardeerd tot die van Hare Koninklijke Hoogheid Prinses Louise-Marie d'Orléans. De prinses werd opgevoed met haar oudere broer Ferdinand, hertog van Orléans, en met acht jongere broers en zussen: Prinses Marie, Lodewijk, hertog van Nemours, Prinses Françoise (die op tweejarige leeftijd stierf), Prinses Clémentine, François, prins van Joinville, Karel, hertog van Penthièvre (die op achtjarige leeftijd stierf), Henri, hertog van Aumale en Antoine, hertog van Montpensier. Alle overlevende kinderen van Lodewijk Filips en Marie-Amélie van de Fransen sloten schitterende huwelijkse allianties.
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Princess Louise-Marie was the first of her siblings to marry. On 9 August 1832, the princess was wed to King Léopold I of the Belgians (1790-1865; né Saxe-Coburg and Gotha). Léopold had been elected as king of the Belgians the year prior to his second marriage. His first wife, Princess Charlotte of Great Britain, Ireland and Hannover, was the only child of the eventual King George IV and his wife Duchess Caroline of Braunschweig. Léopold and Charlotte married in 1816 in what was a mutually happy coupling for the pair; however, their joy was short-lived as Charlotte died in 1817 on the same day that she was delivered of a stillborn son. The death of Charlotte triggered a succession crisis in the Hanoverians of Great Britain, and led to the late princess’ numerous elderly uncles rushing into unions with eligible (and younger) princesses in order to produce an heir to secure the future of the dynasty.
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By virtue of her marriage, Louise-Marie became the first Queen of the Belgians. She and King Léopold quickly set about establishing a family. Their first child, a son and heir, was born on 24 July 1833. He was named Louis Philippe Léopold Victor Ernest after his maternal grandfather, his father, and his cousin Queen Victoria. At his birth, Louis Philippe automatically became Crown Prince of Belgium. Sadly, the infant boy passed away due to an inflammation of his mucous membranes on 16 May 1834, two months before he would have celebrated his first birthday.
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The second child of King Léopold and Queen Louise-Marie entered the world on 9 April 1835. Owing to the death of his older brother the previous year, Prince Léopold Louis Philippe Marie Victor was first in the line of succession after his father, who he succeeded upon the death of Léopold I in 1865. King Léopold II married Archduchess Marie Henriette of Austria in 1853. As the couple’s only son, another Léopold, died at the age of nine in 1869, Léopold II and Marie Henriette do not count the current Royal House of Belgium amongst their descendants. The King and Queen went on to have three daughters, the Princesses Louise (1858-1924), Stéphanie (1864-1945), and Clémentine (1872-1955). Princess Louise married her cousin Prince Philipp of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in a union which ended in divorce after the birth of two children. Princess Stéphanie married the ill-fated Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, with whom she had a daughter, before Rudolf committed suicide with his mistress in 1889 at Mayerling. Only the youngest daughter of the king, Clémentine, found a “happy ever after” with her choice of husband. The princess had fallen in love with Prince Victor Napoléon during her father’s reign. However, Léopold II forbid the union on the grounds that it would offend the French Republic. Clémentine’s devotion to her Victor stood the test of time, and after her father died in 1909, the princess secured the approval of her cousin, King Albert I of the Belgians, for her marital plans. Princess Clémentine of Belgium and Prince Victor Napoléon married in 1910 and became the parents of two children, Marie-Clotilde and Louis.
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Léopold and Louise-Marie’s third child and third son, Philippe, was born on 24 March 1837. Titled the Count of Flanders, Prince Philippe married Princess Marie of Hohenzollern in 1867. Philippe and Marie had five children: Prince Baudouin (1869-1891), Princess Henriette (1870-1948), the short-lived Princess Joséphine (1870-1871), the long-lived Princess Joséphine (1872-1958), and Prince Albert (1875-1934). The Count of Flanders died in 1905 before his elder brother. Therefore, when Léopold II left his earthly frame in 1909, he was succeeded by his nephew, Albert. King Albert I of the Belgians had married Duchess Elisabeth in Bavaria in 1900. Their descendants include the modern Belgian royal family and Luxembourgish grand ducal family.
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De enige dochter en laatste kind van koning Leopold I en zijn vrouw werd geboren op 7 juni 1840. Prinses Maria Charlotte Amélie Auguste Victoire Clémentine Léopoldine van België was voorbestemd voor een tragische toekomst. In 1857 trouwde Charlotte met aartshertog Maximiliaan van Oostenrijk, de jongere broer van keizer Frans Jozef: het paar kon zelf nooit kinderen krijgen. Maximiliaan en Charlotte regeerden als laatste keizer en keizerin van Mexico tussen 1864 en 1867, het jaar waarin Maximiliaan werd geëxecuteerd door de troepen van Benito Juarez. Keizerin Charlotte leed al aan een afnemende geestelijke gezondheid en was sinds 1876 in Europa om hulp te zoeken voor haar man. Ze raakte echter helemaal van streek toen ze hoorde van het wrede einde van haar man. Ze bracht haar laatste dagen door in het kasteel van Bouchout in Meise, België. Na een longontsteking stierf de keizerin-weduwe van Mexico op de hoge leeftijd van zesentachtig. Charlotte was het laatst overgebleven kind van koning Leopold I en koningin Louise-Marie der Belgen.
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| Koningin Louise-Marie der Belgen (1812-1850) |
Koningin Louise-Marie der Belgen heeft nooit de gelegenheid gehad om een van haar kleinkinderen te ontmoeten. De koningin stierf op 38-jarige leeftijd op 11 oktober 1850 in Oostende. Ze rust naast haar man in de Koninklijke Crypte van de Kerk van Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van Laken.
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