Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza
Name Birth Notes
Princess Isabelle Marie Laure Victoire 8 April 1932 married Friedrich Karl , Count of Schönborn-Buchheim
Prince Henri Philippe Pierre Marie 14 June 1933 married Duchess Marie Thérèse of Württemberg
Princess Hélène Astrid Léopoldine Marie 17 September 1934 married Count Evrard de Limburg-Stirum
Prince François Gaston Michel Marie , Duke of Orléans 15 August 1935 Died fighting for France in Algeria
Princess Anne Marguerite Brigitte Marie 4 December 1938 married Infante Carlos , Duke of Calabria
Princess Diane Françoise Maria da Gloria 24 March 1940 married Carl , Duke of Württemberg
Prince Michel Joseph Benoît Marie 25 June 1941 married Béatrice Pasquier de Franclieu
Prince Jacques Jean Yaroslaw Marie , Duke of Orléans 25 June 1941 married Gersende de Sabran-Pontevès
Princess Claude Marie Agnès Catherine 11 December 1943 married Prince Amedeo of Savoy , Duke of Aosta
Princess Jeanne de Chantal Alice Clothilde Marie 9 January 1946 married ( Baron ) François Xavier de Sambucy de Sorgue
Prince Thibaut Louis Denis Humbert 20 January 1948 married Marion Mercedes Gordon-Orr
Life -- Marriage and Children
Isabelle , The Countess of Paris ( 1936 ) Isabelle was related to both parents of her future husband , and first met the young Prince Henri d'Orleans in 1920 at the home of the Duchess of Chartres . In the summer of 1923 he was a guest at her parents ' home at the Chateau d'Eu , at which time Isabelle , aged 12 , resolved that she would one day marry him . But he took no apparent notice of her at the wedding of his sister Anne to the Duke of Aosta at Naples in 1927 . During a visit to his parents home , the Manoir d'Anjou in Brussels , over Easter in 1928 , Prince Henri d'Orleans began to show interest in Isabelle , and still more at a family reunion in July 1929 . [ 3 ] Henri proposed to Isabelle on 10 August 1930 while taking part in a hunt at Count Dobržensky 's Chotěboř home . The couple kept their engagement a secret until a family gathering at Attersee later that summer , but were obliged by the Duke of Guise to wait until Henri finished his studies at Louvain University before the betrothal was officially announced 28 December 1930 . [ 3 ] On 8 April 1931 , at the Cathedral of Palermo , Sicily , Isabelle married her third cousin Henri , Count of Paris ( 1908–1999 ) . [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Isabelle was 19 , while Henri was 21 . [ 4 ] The wedding was held in Sicily , since the law of banishment against the heirs of France 's former dynasties had not yet been abrogated . [ 5 ] The two families selected Palermo because Isabelle 's family possessed a palace there , which had been the location of three earlier royal weddings . [ 5 ] The wedding gave rise to several royalist demonstrations , and the road leading to the cathedral was lined with hundreds of visitors from France who viewed Henri as the rightful heir to the French throne . [ 6 ] He was greeted with such cries as `` Vive le roi , Vive la France '' along with other monarchist cries and songs . [ 6 ] These supporters were joined by members of the bride and groom 's families , along with representatives of other royal dynasties . [ 6 ] He became pretender to the throne of France from 1940 onwards . In 1947 , Henri and Isabel 's family took up residence at the Quinta do Anjinho , an estate in Sintra , on the Portuguese Riviera . [ 7 ] They had eleven children :
Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza, Countess of Paris (Isabelle Marie Amélie Louise Victoire Thérèse Jeanne; Eu, Seine-Maritime, 13 August 1911 - Paris, 5 July 2003), was a French historical author and consort of the Orléanist pretender, Henri, Count of Paris.