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 of France' when her husband assumed the title of king in 1795 upon the death of his nephew, the titular King Louis XVII of France, until her death. She was never practically queen, as she died before her husband actually became king in 1814.
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)
Louis XVIII, known as the Desired, was King of France from 1814 to 1824, except for a brief interruption during the Hundred Days in 1815. He spent 23 years in exile from 1791: during the French Revolution and the First French Empire (1804–1814), and during the Hundred Days.
Portrait, c. 1814
The Count of Provence and his brother Louis Auguste, Duke of Berry (later Louis XVI), depicted in 1757 by François-Hubert Drouais
Marie Joséphine of Savoy
Louis Stanislas, Count of Provence, during the reign of Louis XVI of France