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HomeMaria Amalia of Naples and Sicily

Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily

Louise of Orléans

Marie of Orléans – A life cut short

Friday, 26 June 2020, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0

Princess Marie of Orléans was born on 12 April 1813 as the third child and second daughter of Louis-Philippe, King of the French, and his wife, Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily. She was one of ten siblings and her elder sister Louise became Queen of the Belgians. Marie was born in Palermo, Sicily, where [read more]

Adélaïde d'Orléans

Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily – A Crown of Thorns (Part three)

Saturday, 6 June 2020, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0

Read part two here. The exiled King and his family slowly made their way to England as Maria Amalia, and her husband reluctantly stepped into their new role. Her husband continued to claim that he only accepted the crown to save the country from anarchy, but it took quite some time before affairs were actually [read more]

Charlotte of Wales

Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily – A Crown of Thorns (Part two)

Friday, 5 June 2020, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0

Read part one here. King Louis XVIII was quite fond of Maria Amalia, and he wrote of her, “I had heard a great deal in favour of this Princess, but when I became personally acquainted with her, I found in her many more good qualities than I had been to led to expect. Such a [read more]

Louise of Orléans

Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily – A Crown of Thorns (Part one)

Thursday, 4 June 2020, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0

Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily was born on 26 April 1782 as the daughter of Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies and Maria Carolina of Austria. She was their tenth child out of a total of 18. Her mother was a sister of Queen Marie Antoinette of France, Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen, Archduke [read more]

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Isabella II of Spain

Luisa Carlotta of Naples and Sicily – An ambitious Infanta

Wednesday, 18 March 2020, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0

Luisa Carlotta of Naples and Sicily was born at the Palace of Portici on 24 October 1804 as the daughter of King Francis I of the Two Sicilies and his second wife María Isabella of Spain. She had one surviving half-sister from her father’s first marriage to Maria Clementina of Austria. She had ten full siblings [read more]

Adela of Champagne

Lost Kingdoms – Kingdom of France

Monday, 15 January 2018, 7:00 Moniek Bloks 1

The Kingdom of France originated when Hugh Capet was elected King and founded the Capetian dynasty. Before, the area of the Frankish empire was ruled by several dynasties. Hugh Capet was married to Adelaide of Aquitaine, and she was known as Queen of the Franks. They had three children that can be accounted for, including Hugh’s [read more]

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