germanaustriannoblesandroyals:Royal Women of Bavaria (12/?): Princess Louise d’OrléansLouise was bor
germanaustriannoblesandroyals:Royal Women of Bavaria (12/?): Princess Louise d’OrléansLouise was born as the first child and only daughter of Ferdinand d'Orléans, The Duke of Alençon, and his wife Sophie in Bavaria, the youngest daughter of Princess Ludovika of Bavaria, The Duchess in Bavaria. Through her maternal grandmother, Louise was related to several royal houses. She was a niece of The Empress of Austria and The Queen of Sicilies, as well as full great niece to Queens Amalie Auguste and Maria Anna of Saxony, Queen Elisabeth Ludovika of Prussia and Princess Sophie of Bavaria, Archduchess of Austria. From her father’s side, she was great-granddaughter of Louis Philippe I, King of the French, and a niece to Prince Gaston of Orléans, the husband of the last Princess Imperial (Crown Princess) of Brasil. Through her paternal grandmother, she could also claim descent from the Catholic line of the House of Coburg which ruled over Portugal, Brasil and Bulgaria in the 19th century while the Protestant line ruled over Britain and Belgium.In the end, she would marry back into her maternal House of Wittelsbach by marrying Prince Alfons of Bavaria. Alfons was not that high in the Bavarian line of succession, as he was only the grandson of a king. However, he did not only have rights to the throne in Bavaria but also the Greek one through his uncle. Originally, Alfons was supposed to marry Louise’s cousin Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria but their first meeting was so boring for them that a marriage never happened and so Louise was chosen.The couple had two children, a son and a daughter. Their son Prince Joseph of Bavaria never married and became one of the leading German art historians at his time. The daughter, Elisabeth, first married Count Franz Joseph of Kageneck and had four children with him. Three years after he died in combat during the Second World War, Elisabeth married once again, this time a man called Ernst Kustner.Louise died at the age of 82 on February 4th, 1952, in Munich. She survived her husband by over 19 years.// Anne Kanis as Louise in Sophie - Sissis kleine Schwester (2001) -- source link
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