Princess Francisca of Brazil
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Dona Francisca was a princess of the Empire of Brazil, who became Princess of Joinville upon marrying François d’Orléans, son of the French king Louis Philippe I. The couple had three children. Through their oldest daughter, Francisca and François are the ancestors of Jean, Count of Paris, the present Orléanist pretender to the French throne.
Francisca of Brazil, Princess of Joinville, 1850s. Painting by Franz Xaver Winterhalter
Francisca with her siblings Pedro II, and Januária in 1839.
Portrait by Franz Xaver Winterhalter in 1844. Currently desplayed at the Palace of Versailles.
Maria Amalia Teresa of Naples and Sicily was Queen of the French by marriage to Louis Philippe I, King of the French. She was the last queen of France.
Maria Amalia (left) with her older sister Maria Luisa, by Angelica Kauffmann, 1782.
Maria Amalia, by François Gérard, 1819
Portrait of Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily, by Louis Hersent (c. 1835).