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Robert, Duke of Chartres

Prince Robert d'Orléans
Duke of Chartres
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Robert d'Orléans, Duke of Chartres
Born (1840-11-09)November 9, 1840
Paris, France
Died December 5, 1910(1910-12-05) (aged 70)
Saint Firmin, France
Spouse Princess Françoise of Orléans
(m. 1863–1910; his death)
Issue Princess Marie of Denmark
Prince Robert
Prince Henri
Princess Marguerite, Duchess de Magenta
Jean, Duke of Guise
House Orléans
Father Prince Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans
Mother Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

Prince Robert Philippe Louis Eugène Ferdinand of Orléans, Duke of Chartres (November 9, 1840 – December 5, 1910) was the son of Prince Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans and thus grandson of King Louis-Philippe of France. He fought for the Union in the American Civil War, and then for France in the 1870 Franco-Prussian War. In 1863 he married his cousin Princess Françoise of Orléans in Kingston upon Thames - she was the daughter of François, Prince of Joinville. In 1886, he was exiled from France.

Born in 1840, the duke was very soon orphaned – his father died in a cabriolet accident in 1842, and his mother died in 1858. Thus, during their childhood and adolescence, he and his elder brother were mainly looked after by their grandparents, King Louis-Philippe and Queen Marie-Amélie. He followed the rest of the Orléans family into exile after the 1848 revolution. Louis-Philippe refused to fire upon the revolutionaries and thus abdicated his crown in favour of Robert's brother on February 24. As a result, Robert's mother Helena presented herself before the chamber of deputies to proclaim her elder son king of the French and to have herself named regent, accompanied by her brother-in-law, the Duke of Nemours, and his children. However, the assembly of Ledru-Rollin, Crémieux and Lamartine, frustrated her plans and instituted the Second French Republic. Helena and her children thus left France for Germany, whilst Louis-Philippe and the rest of the royal family moved to the United Kingdom. There they set up home in Claremont, property of King Leopold I of Belgium, himself related to Louis-Philippe. Whilst in England, in 1858 his mother Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin succumbed to influenza, which she passed on to Robert.


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