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Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Duchess of Orléans
Princess Royal of France
Portrait of Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, (Duchess of Orleans) with her son Prince Louis Philippe, Count of Paris by Winterhalter.jpg
Portrait by Franz Xaver Winterhalter c.1839
Born (1814-01-24)24 January 1814
Schloss Ludwigslust, Germany
Died 17 May 1858(1858-05-17) (aged 44)
Richmond upon Thames, London, England
Burial Chapelle royale de Dreux
Spouse Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans
Issue
Detail
Prince Philippe, Count of Paris
Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres
House Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Father Frederick Louis, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Mother Princess Karoline Luise of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
Religion Lutheran

Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (Helene Luise Elisabeth; 24 January 1814 – 17 May 1858) was a French Crown Princess after her marriage in 1837 to the eldest son of Louis Philippe I, Ferdinand Philippe of Orléans.

She was the mother of the future Count of Paris and Duke of Chartres. Her descendants include the present Count of Paris as well the present-day pretenders to the throne of France and Italy and the kings of Spain and Belgium.

Born at the Schloss Ludwigslust, the retreat from a capital of her native Mecklenburg-Schwerin, she was the only daughter born to the Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1778–1819) and his second wife Princess Karoline Luise of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1786–1816), third daughter of Grand Duke Carl August and Princess Louisa of Hessen-Darmstadt.

Via her father she was granddaughter of Frederick Francis I, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and his wife Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg.


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