Hartwell House is a country house in the parish of Hartwell in Buckinghamshire, Southern England. The house is owned by the Ernest Cook Trust, has been a Historic House Hotel since 1989, and in 2008 w
Hartwell House, north front
Louis Stanislas Xavier
Marie Joséphine of Savoy
The southern aspect of Hartwell House
Marie Joséphine of Savoy
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Marie Joséphine of Savoy was a princess of France and Countess of Provence by marriage to the future King Louis XVIII of France. She was regarded by Bourbon royalist Legitimists as the titular 'Queen
Hartwell House, Buckinghamshire
…happy experience for the mansion, with once grand and imperious courtiers farming chickens and assorted small livestock on the lead roofs. Louis's wife, Marie Joséphine of Savoy died at Hartwell in 1810. After her death, her body was carried first to Westminster Abbey, and one year later to Sardinia, where the Savoy King of…
Portrait by Joseph Boze, 1786
Marie Joséphine as a child (by Giuseppe Duprà)
Marie Joséphine in 1772 (by François-Hubert Drouais)
Marie Joséphine in 1782 (by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun)