Prince Michel | |||||
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Count of Évreux | |||||
Born |
Rabat, Morocco |
25 June 1941 ||||
Spouse | Béatrice Marie Pasquier de Franclieu Barbara de Posch-Pastor |
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Issue | Princess Clotilde, Mrs. Corneille Crépy Princess Adélaïde, Mrs. Dailly Prince Charles Philippe, Duke of Anjou Prince François, Count of Dreux |
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House | Orléans | ||||
Father | Prince Henri, Count of Paris | ||||
Mother | Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza | ||||
Religion | Roman Catholic |
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French: Michel Joseph Benoît Marie |
Prince Michel of Orléans, Fils de France, Count of Évreux (Michel Joseph Benoît Marie; born 25 June 1941, Rabat, Morocco) is a French nobleman and part of the claimant family to the French throne. He is the son of the late Prince Henri, Count of Paris (the Orleanist claimant to the French throne from 1940 until his death) and Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza. Prince Michel is styled as the Count of Évreux.
Prince Michel was born in Morocco and raised in exile as one of the eleven children of the Comte de France. His family re-patriated to France in 1950 after the law of banishment against former French dynasties was repealed.
Prince Michel earned a university degree studying mathematics, chemistry and physics,
He was dating Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark when he met Béatrice Marie Pasquier de Franclieu, whom he married on 18 November 1967 in Casablanca, Morocco, without his father's consent.
The bride was born Béatrice Marie Guillemine Huguette in Neuilly-sur-Seine on 24 October 1941, the daughter of Count Bruno Marie Emilien Pasquier de Franclieu (Lyon, 4 March 1914 - Paris, 15 September 1944) of a noble family, and his wife Jacqueline Françoise Marie Thérèse Irène Térisse (Rambouillet, 7 September 1918 - 2006) who had married in Lormes on 29 April 1938.