| Marie Amélie Thérèse Born: 26-Apr-1782
Birthplace: Caserta, Italy
Died: 24-Mar-1866
Location of death: Claremont
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Chapelle Royale, Dreux, France
Gender: Female
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Royalty Nationality: France
Executive summary: Queen Consort of Louis-Philippe Marie Amélie Thérèse (1782-1866), queen of Louis Philippe, king of the French, was the daughter of Ferdinand IV, King of Naples, and the archduchess Maria Carolina, daughter of the empress Maria Theresa, and belonged to the house of Bourbon. She was born at Caserta, on the 26th of April 1782, and received a careful education which developed the naturally pious and honorable disposition that earned for her in the family circle the nickname of La Santa. Driven from Naples in 1798, the Neapolitan royal family fled to Palermo, and the years from 1800-02 were spent by Marie Amélie with her mother at the Austrian court. In 1806 they were again in flight before the armies of André Masséna, and it was during the second residence of her father's court at Palermo that she met the exiled Louis-Philippe, then Duke of Orleans, whom she married in November 1809. Returning to France in 1814, the Duke and Duchess of Orleans had barely established themselves in the Palais Royal in Paris when the Hundred Days drove them into exile. Marie Amélie took refuge with her four children in England, where she spent two years at Orleans House, Twickenham. Again in France in 1817, her life at Neuilly until 1828 was the happiest period of her existence. Neither then nor at any other time did she take any active share in politics; but she was not without indirect influence on affairs, because her strong royalist and legitimist traditions prevented the court from including her in the suspicion with which her husband's liberal views were regarded. Her attention was absorbed by the care and education of her numerous family, even after the revolution of 1830 had made her queen of the French, a position accepted by her with forebodings of disaster justified by her early experience of revolutions. During her second exile, from 1848 to the end of her life, she lived at Claremont, where her charity and piety endeared her to the many English friends of the Orleans family. Marie Amélie died at Claremont, on the 24th of March 1866. Father: Ferdinand IV (King of Naples)
Mother: Archduchess Maria Carolina (dau. of Maria Theresa)
Husband: Louis-Philippe (King of France)
Son: Prince Ferdinand-Philippe, Duke of Orleans (b. 3-Sep-1810, d. 1842)
Daughter: Louise Marie of Orléans (b. 3-Apr-1812, d. 1850, m. Leopold I of Belgium)
Daughter: Marie of Orléans (b. 12-Apr-1813, d. 1839)
Son: Louis Charles Philippe Raphael (duc de Nemours, b. 25-Oct-1814, d. 1896)
Daughter: Francisca of Orléans (b. 28-Mar-1816, d. 1818)
Daughter: Princess Clémentine of Orléans (b. 3-Jun-1817, d. 1907)
Son: François d'Orléans, Prince de Joinville (b. 14-Aug-1818, d. 1900)
Son: Prince Charles, Duke of Penthièvre (b. 1-Jan-1820, d. 1828)
Son: Prince Henri, Duke of Aumale (b. 16-Jun-1822, d. 1897)
Son: Prince Antoine, Duke of Montpensier (b. 31-Jul-1824, d. 1890)
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