Anne Marie d'Orléans

Anne Marie d'Orléans
Queen consort of Sardinia Duchess consort of Savoy Queen consort of Sicily
Anne Marie d'Orléans, possibly by Louis Ferdinand Elle
Born	(1669-08-27)27 August 1669 Château de Saint-Cloud, France
Died	26 August 1728(1728-08-26) (aged 58) Villa della Regina, Piedmont
Spouse	Victor Amadeus II of Savoy
Issue Detail	Maria Adélaïde, Dauphine of France Maria Luisa, Queen of Spain Victor Amadeus, Prince of Piedmont Charles Emmanuel, King of Sardinia
Full name French: Anne Marie d'Orléans Italian: Anna Maria de Orleans
House	Orléans
Father	Philippe I, Duke of Orléans
Mother	Henrietta of England
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Anne Marie d'Orléans (27 August 1669 – 26 August 1728) was the first Queen consort of Sardinia and the maternal grandmother of Louis XV of France and niece of Louis XIV of France. She served as regent of Savoy during the absence of her spouse in 1686 and during the War of the Spanish Succession. She is also an important figure in British history (see Jacobite Succession below).

She was the daughter of Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, younger brother of Louis XIV, and Henrietta of England, the youngest daughter of Charles I of England. Her mother died at the Château de Saint-Cloud ten months after Anne Marie's birth. A year later, her father married 21-year-old Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, who became very close to her stepdaughters. Her half-brother Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, the future regent of France, was born of her father's second marriage.

Her stepmother later described her as one of the most amiable and virtuous of women.

To maintain French influence in the Italian states, her uncle King Louis XIV arranged her marriage, at the age of fourteen, to Victor Amadeus II of Savoy, then Duke of Savoy, later King of Sicily and then of Sardinia. Louis XIV was an ally of her future mother-in-law, Marie Jeanne, and supported Marie Jeanne when she extended her regency even after her actual mandate as regent had come to an end in 1680: Marie Jeanne did, in fact, not surrender her position as regent until shortly before her son's wedding.

The proxy marriage of Anne Marie and Víctor Amadeus took place at Versailles on 10 April 1684, the day after the signature of the marriage contract. Her husband-to-be was represented by her cousin, Louis-Auguste de Bourbon, duc du Maine. Louis XIV gave her a dowry of 900,000 livres.