Prince du sang
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A prince du sang or prince of the blood is a person legitimately descended in male line from a sovereign. The female equivalent is princesse du sang, being applied to the daughter of a prince of the b
Anne Henriette of Bavaria
Françoise-Marie de Bourbon, did not use the style as her husband did not.
Louise Henriette de Bourbon, mother of Philippe Égalité
Madame la Princesse – wife of Philippe Égalité.
Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, was a French Prince of the Blood who supported the French Revolution.
Prince du sang
…than to the Spanish branch of the Bourbons, which had renounced its right to succeed to the French throne by the Treaty of Utrecht. This meant that Louis Philippe, duke of Orleans in the late 18th century, was the First Prince of the Blood immediately before the French Revolution, entitling him to sit on various…
Portrait by Antoine-François Callet
Portrait of a young Louis Philippe Joseph d'Orléans, by Louis Tocqué.
Louise Marie Adélaïde as the Duchess of Chartres
Louis Philippe d'Orléans, as Duke of Chartres, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, c. 1779, Château de Chantilly