Philippe d'Orléans (1869-1926)
| Prince Philippe | |
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| Duke of Orléans | |
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| Orléanist pretender to the French throne | |
| Pretence | 8 September 1894 – 28 March 1926 |
| Predecessor | Philippe VII |
| Successor | Jean III |
| Duke of Orléans | |
| Tenure | 8 September 1894 – 28 March 1926 |
| Predecessor | Louis-Philippe II |
| Duke of Montpensier | |
| Tenure | 8 September 1894 – 28 March 1926 |
| Predecessor | Louis-Philippe II |
| Successor | Jean III |
| Born | 6 February 1869 |
| Died | 28 March 1926 (aged 57) |
| Spouse | Archduchess Maria Dorothea of Austria |
| House | Orléans |
| Father | Philippe, Count of Paris |
| Mother | Isabelle of Orléans |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
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Prince Philippe d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans (6 February 1869 – 28 March 1926) was the Orléanist claimant to the throne of France from 1894 to 1926.
Philippe was born at York House, Twickenham, Middlesex, the son of Philippe, Count of Paris, by his wife (and first cousin), Princess Isabelle of Orléans. His family lived in The United Kingdom from the abdication and banishment of his great-grandfather Louis Philippe, King of the French, in 1848; returned to France in 1871 following the fall of the Second French Empire; and again found themselves exiled by the French Republic following the 1886 wedding in Paris of Philippe's sister Amélie of Orléans to Crown Prince Carlos of Portugal, taking refuge in the United Kingdom once again. He was baptised with the names Louis-Philippe-Robert, and was called Philippe.
In 1871, Philippe returned with his parents to France. He was educated at home at the Château d'Eu and at the Collège Stanislas de Paris. His preceptor from the end of 1882 to 1887 was Théodore Froment, previously a professor of Latin literature at Bordeaux. In 1880 he received the title Duc d'Orléans from his father. On 16 June 1881, he received the sacrament of confirmation at Eu. Growing up to be tall, blond and bearded, he was a better athlete than scholar, who learned to love mountain-climbing from Captain Morhain, a former soldier from Saint-Cyr who had become his father's accountant.
Philippe began his military education at the École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr. In June 1886 he was on the point of becoming an officer in the French army when his family was once again exiled by France's republican government. At first he was placed under the tutelage of a Colonel de Parseval, under whose supervision he would later attend a military academy in Lausanne. In the United Kingdom he entered the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, on the nomination of Queen Victoria in February 1887, completing his training there having developed an abiding interest in geography, topography, and the natural sciences.
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