Prince Emmanuel d’Orléans

Prince Emmanuel of Orléans, Duke of Vendôme (Philippe Emmanuel Maximilien Marie Eudes; 18 January 1872 – 1 February 1931) His mother was the famed duchesse d'Alençon who died in a fire at a charity bazaar in Paris on 4 May 1897. His older sister, Louise d'Orléans, married Prince Alfons of Bavaria. and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (a first cousin of Queen Victoria). His maternal grandparents were Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria and Princess Ludovika of Bavaria.

Career The Duke was a Major in the Austro-Hungarian Army, however, he was not allowed to serve in World War I due to an 1886 law barring all princes of the two former sovereign houses of France from being permitted serving their country in the army or navy or hold office in the French government. and had four children: Before their marriage was annulled in 1926, they had one child together. Princess Sophie (19 October 1898 – 9 October 1928), who died unmarried in Lugrin in 1928. Princess Geneviève (21 September 1901 – 22 August 1983), who married Antoine, Marquis de Chaponay (1893–1956) in Neuilly, France, on 2 July 1923. Antoine, a widower of Diane de Cossé Brissac (1901–1921), and Geneviève had children together. Prince Charles-Philippe (4 April 1905 – 10 March 1970), Duke of Nemours, who married non-dynastically Marguerite Watson (1899–1993), daughter of Garrett Fitzgerald Watson of Richmond, Virginia, in Paris on 24 September 1928, without issue. He is buried in the Chapelle Royale de Saint Louis, in Dreux. His widow, Henriette Marie of Belgium, died aged 77 on 28 March 1948 in Sierre, Valais, Switzerland.

Honours Kingdom of Bavaria: Knight of the Order of Saint Hubert, 1892 Spain: Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece, 29 January 1914 Monaco: Grand Cross of the Order of Saint-Charles, 19 June 1923

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