Maria Cristina of Naples and Sicily

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Maria Cristina of Naples and Sicily was a Princess of Naples and Sicily and later Queen of Sardinia as wife of King Charles Felix. She was a daughter of Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies and Maria Carolina of Austria.

Portrait of Maria Cristina in the Castle of Aglié, by Giacomo Berger (1816)

Portrait of Princess Maria Cristina as a child (by Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, c. 1790)

Charles Felix of Sardinia

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Charles Felix was the King of Sardinia and ruler of the Savoyard states from 12 March 1821 until his death in 1831. He was the last male-line member of the House of Savoy that started with Victor Amadeus I of Savoy, and caused the line of Victor Amadeus I's younger brother Thomas Francis, Prince of Carignano to seize the throne after Felix's death.

Posthumous portrait by Francesco Marabotti, painted in c. 1851

Charles Felix as the Grand Master of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus

Maria Cristina of Naples, wife of Charles Felix and queen of Sardinia

Victor Emmanuel I, who abdicated in favour of Charles Felix after the rebellion of 1821