Princess Caroline of Naples and Sicily
| Princess Marie-Caroline | |||||
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| Duchess of Berry Duchess della Grazia |
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Caroline in 1825 by Thomas Lawrence
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| Born |
5 November 1798 Caserta Palace, Caserta, Italy |
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| Died | 17 April 1870 (aged 71) Brunnsee, Styria, Austria-Hungary |
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| Burial | Mureck Cemetery, Mureck, Austria | ||||
| Spouse |
Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry Ettore Carlo Lucchesi-Palli |
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| Issue |
Louise Marie Thérèse, Duchess of Parma Henri, Count of Chambord Anna Maria Rosalia Lucchesi-Palli Clementina Lucchesi-Palli Francesca di Paola Lucchesi-Palli Maria Isabella Lucchesi-Palli Adinolfo Lucchesi-Palli, 9th Duke della Grazia |
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| House | Bourbon-Two Sicilies | ||||
| Father | Francis I of the Two Sicilies | ||||
| Mother | Archduchess Maria Clementina of Austria | ||||
| Religion | Roman Catholic | ||||
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Italian: Maria Carolina Ferdinanda Luisa French: Marie Caroline Ferdinande Louise |
Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Sicile, duchess de Berry (Maria Carolina Ferdinanda Luise; 5 November 1798 – 17 April 1870) was an Italian princess of the House of Bourbon who married into the French royal family, and was the mother of Henri, Count of Chambord, the last serious Bourbon pretender to the crown of France.
Caroline was born at Caserta Palace in Naples. She was the eldest child of Prince Ferdinand, the future King Francis I of the Two Sicilies and his first wife, Archduchess Maria Clementina of Austria, the tenth child and third daughter of Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor and Maria Luisa of Spain. Her parents were double first cousins.
Caroline was baptised with the names of her paternal grandparents, Maria Carolina of Austria and King Ferdinand of Naples.
She spent her youth in Palermo and in Naples. Her mother died in 1801; her father married again in 1802 to Infanta Maria Isabella of Spain, another first cousin, and had twelve more children.
In 1816, French ambassador Pierre Louis Jean Casimir de Blacas arranged with the Kingdoms of Naples and Sicily for Caroline to marry Louis XVIII of France's nephew, Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry. The marriage was held on 24 April 1816 in Naples. Caroline thus became Duchesse de Berry; known as Madame de Berry in France.
Even though it was an arranged marriage, it was a happy marriage, with Caroline and her husband living at the Élysée Palace in Paris which was given to them.
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