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Jean-Christophe Napoléon

Jean-Christophe
Prince Napoléon
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Head of the House of Bonaparte
Period Since 3 May 1997
Predecessor Louis, Prince Napoléon
Heir Presumptive Prince Jérôme Napoléon
Born (1986-07-11) 11 July 1986 (age 30)
Saint-Raphaël, Var, France
Full name
Jean-Christophe Louis Ferdinand Albéric Napoléon
House Bonaparte
Father Prince Charles Napoléon
Mother Princess Beatrice of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
Religion Roman Catholicism
Full name
Jean-Christophe Louis Ferdinand Albéric Napoléon

Jean-Christophe, Prince Napoléon (Jean Christophe Louis Ferdinand Albéric Napoléon; born 11 July 1986) is, in the views of some Bonapartists, head of the former Imperial House of France and the heir of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Prince Jean-Christophe was born in Saint-Raphaël, Var, France. He is the son of Prince Charles Napoléon and his first wife Princess Béatrice of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, daughter of the late Prince Ferdinand of Bourbon, Duke of Castro, a claimant to headship of the former Royal House of the Two Sicilies. His parents divorced on 2 May 1989, two months before Jean-Christophe's 3rd birthday.

Jean-Christophe is the great-great-great-great-nephew of Emperor Napoleon I of France (who has no legitimate, direct descendants) through the emperor's younger brother, Jérôme, King of Westphalia. Through his mother he is a descendant of King Louis XV of France and through his great-grandmother, Princess Clémentine of Belgium he descends from Louis Philippe I, King of the French, who was the last king to rule France, although Emperor Napoleon III would serve as its last monarch to date.

Jean-Christophe's grandfather, Louis, Prince Napoléon, died in 1997, stipulating in his will that he wished his 11-year-old grandson Jean-Christophe to succeed him as Head of the Imperial House of France rather than the boy's father, Charles, who had embraced republican principles and remarried without his father's authorization. Despite the dynastic dispute, Jean-Christophe's father has stated that "there will never be conflict" between him and his son over the imperial succession.


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