Princess Marie Louise of Orléans (1896–1973)


Princess Marie Louise Ferdinande Charlotte Henriette of Orléans was a Princess of Orléans by birth and a Princess of Bourbon-Two Sicilies through her marriage to Prince Philip of Bourbon-Two Sicilies.

Family

Marie Louise was the eldest daughter and child of Prince Emmanuel of Orléans, Duke of Vendôme and his wife, Princess Henriette of Belgium.
She was a great-granddaughter of Louis Philippe I, the last king of France.

Marriage and issue

Marie Louise married firstly to Prince Philip of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, tenth child of Prince Alfonso of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Count of Caserta, and his wife, Princess Antonietta of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, on 12 January 1916 in Neuilly-sur-Seine. The couple had one child before their divorce in 1925:
Marie Louise married secondly to Walter Kingsland, a prominent New York businessman, on 12 December 1928 in Chichester, Sussex, England. Marie Louise and Walter did not have children. and lived in Redding, Connecticut, for twenty years.
Marie Louise died on 8 March 1973 in New York City.

Descendants

Through her only son, she was the grandmother of two grandsons: Adrian Philip de Bourbon, who married Linda Idensohn on 20 March 1976, and Gregory Peter de Bourbon, who married, firstly, Maureen Powell on 15 May 1971. They divorced in 1986. They have two sons. He remarried to Carrie Anne Thornley on 30 August 1986.

Ancestry