Henri d'Orleans, duke of Aumale
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| Duke of Aumale | |||||
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16 January 1822 Palais Royal, Paris |
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| Died | 7 May 1897 (aged 75) Zucco, Sicily |
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| Burial | Royal Chapel, Dreux, France | ||||
| Spouse | Carolina Augusta of the Two Sicilies | ||||
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Louis, Prince of Condé François Louis, Duke of Guise |
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| House | Orléans | ||||
| Father | Louis Philippe I | ||||
| Mother | Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily | ||||
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| Full name | |
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| Henri Eugène Philippe Louis d'Orléans |
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Royal styles of Prince Henri, Duke of Aumale |
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| Reference style | His Royal Highness |
| Spoken style | Your Royal Highness |
| Alternative style | Sir |
Henri Eugène Philippe Louis d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale (16 January 1822 – 7 May 1897) was a leader of the Orleanists, a political faction in 19th-century France associated with constitutional monarchy. He was born in Paris, the fifth son of King Louis-Philippe I of the French and Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily. He used the title Duke of Aumale. He retired from public life in 1883.
Born at the Palais Royal in Paris, he was brought up by his parents with great simplicity, he was educated at the college of Henri IV.
At the very young age of 8, he inherited a fortune of 66 million livres (approximately £200 million today), the lands and wealth of his godfather, Louis Henri de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, the last Prince of Condé. Henri also inherited the famous Château de Chantilly, domaines of Saint-Leu, Taverny, Enghien, Montmorency and Mortefontaine. He also gained the Château d'Écouen. At the age of seventeen he entered the army with the rank of a captain of infantry.
On November 25, 1844, he married Princess Carolina Augusta of the Two Sicilies, daughter of the Leopold of the Two Sicilies, Prince of Salerno and his wife Archduchess Maria Clementina of Austria, in Naples. The couple had several children, two of whom reached adulthood.
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