Als Louis Philippe König wurde, wurde der Titel seiner achtzehnjährigen Tochter zu Ihrer Königlichen Hoheit Prinzessin Louise-Marie d'Orléans aufgewertet. Die Prinzessin wuchs zusammen mit ihrem älteren Bruder Ferdinand, Herzog von Orléans, sowie mit acht jüngeren Brüdern und Schwestern auf: Prinzessin Marie, Louis, Herzog von Nemours, Prinzessin Françoise (die im Alter von zwei Jahren starb), Prinzessin Clémentine, François, Prinz von Joinville, Charles, Herzog von Penthièvre (der im Alter von acht Jahren starb), Henri, Herzog von Aumale, und Antoine, Herzog von Montpensier. Alle überlebenden Kinder von Louis Philippe und Marie-Amélie von Frankreich schlossen glänzende Ehen.
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Princess Louise-Marie was the first of her siblings to marry. On 9 August 1832, the princess was wed to King Léopold I of the Belgians (1790-1865; né Saxe-Coburg and Gotha). Léopold had been elected as king of the Belgians the year prior to his second marriage. His first wife, Princess Charlotte of Great Britain, Ireland and Hannover, was the only child of the eventual King George IV and his wife Duchess Caroline of Braunschweig. Léopold and Charlotte married in 1816 in what was a mutually happy coupling for the pair; however, their joy was short-lived as Charlotte died in 1817 on the same day that she was delivered of a stillborn son. The death of Charlotte triggered a succession crisis in the Hanoverians of Great Britain, and led to the late princess’ numerous elderly uncles rushing into unions with eligible (and younger) princesses in order to produce an heir to secure the future of the dynasty.
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By virtue of her marriage, Louise-Marie became the first Queen of the Belgians. She and King Léopold quickly set about establishing a family. Their first child, a son and heir, was born on 24 July 1833. He was named Louis Philippe Léopold Victor Ernest after his maternal grandfather, his father, and his cousin Queen Victoria. At his birth, Louis Philippe automatically became Crown Prince of Belgium. Sadly, the infant boy passed away due to an inflammation of his mucous membranes on 16 May 1834, two months before he would have celebrated his first birthday.
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The second child of King Léopold and Queen Louise-Marie entered the world on 9 April 1835. Owing to the death of his older brother the previous year, Prince Léopold Louis Philippe Marie Victor was first in the line of succession after his father, who he succeeded upon the death of Léopold I in 1865. King Léopold II married Archduchess Marie Henriette of Austria in 1853. As the couple’s only son, another Léopold, died at the age of nine in 1869, Léopold II and Marie Henriette do not count the current Royal House of Belgium amongst their descendants. The King and Queen went on to have three daughters, the Princesses Louise (1858-1924), Stéphanie (1864-1945), and Clémentine (1872-1955). Princess Louise married her cousin Prince Philipp of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in a union which ended in divorce after the birth of two children. Princess Stéphanie married the ill-fated Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, with whom she had a daughter, before Rudolf committed suicide with his mistress in 1889 at Mayerling. Only the youngest daughter of the king, Clémentine, found a “happy ever after” with her choice of husband. The princess had fallen in love with Prince Victor Napoléon during her father’s reign. However, Léopold II forbid the union on the grounds that it would offend the French Republic. Clémentine’s devotion to her Victor stood the test of time, and after her father died in 1909, the princess secured the approval of her cousin, King Albert I of the Belgians, for her marital plans. Princess Clémentine of Belgium and Prince Victor Napoléon married in 1910 and became the parents of two children, Marie-Clotilde and Louis.
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Léopold and Louise-Marie’s third child and third son, Philippe, was born on 24 March 1837. Titled the Count of Flanders, Prince Philippe married Princess Marie of Hohenzollern in 1867. Philippe and Marie had five children: Prince Baudouin (1869-1891), Princess Henriette (1870-1948), the short-lived Princess Joséphine (1870-1871), the long-lived Princess Joséphine (1872-1958), and Prince Albert (1875-1934). The Count of Flanders died in 1905 before his elder brother. Therefore, when Léopold II left his earthly frame in 1909, he was succeeded by his nephew, Albert. King Albert I of the Belgians had married Duchess Elisabeth in Bavaria in 1900. Their descendants include the modern Belgian royal family and Luxembourgish grand ducal family.
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Die einzige Tochter und das letzte Kind von König Léopold I. und seiner Frau wurde am 7. Juni 1840 geboren. Prinzessin Maria Charlotte Amélie Auguste Victoire Clémentine Léopoldine von Belgien war eine tragische Zukunft bestimmt. 1857 heiratete Charlotte Erzherzog Maximilian von Österreich, den jüngeren Bruder von Kaiser Franz Joseph. Das Paar konnte nie eigene Kinder bekommen. Maximilian und Charlotte regierten als letzte Kaiser und Kaiserin von Mexiko zwischen 1864 und 1867, dem Jahr, in dem Maximilian von den Truppen Benito Juarez hingerichtet wurde. Kaiserin Charlotte, die bereits an einer sich verschlechternden geistigen Gesundheit litt und seit 1876 in Europa auf der Suche nach Hilfe für ihren Mann war, verlor eher den Verstand, als sie vom brutalen Tod ihres Mannes erfuhr. Sie verbrachte den Rest ihres Lebens auf Schloss Bouchout im belgischen Meise. Nach einer Lungenentzündung starb die Kaiserinwitwe von Mexiko im hohen Alter von 86 Jahren. Charlotte war das letzte überlebende Kind von König Léopold I. und Königin Louise-Marie der Belgier.
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| Königin Louise-Marie der Belgier (1812-1850) |
Königin Louise-Marie von Belgien hatte nie die Gelegenheit, ihre Enkelkinder kennenzulernen. Die Königin starb im Alter von 38 Jahren am 11. Oktober 1850 in Ostende. Sie ruht neben ihrem Ehemann in der königlichen Krypta der Liebfrauenkirche von Laeken.