Prince Ferdinand d’Orléans, duc d’Alençon

A carte-de-visite portrait of Prince Ferdinand d’Orléans, duc d’Alençon (1844-1910), a son of the duc de Nemours, second son of King Louis-Philippe.

Ferdinand d’Alençon married Sophie Charlotte, Duchess in Bavaria, younger sister of the Empress Elisabeth (popularly called ‘Sisi’). The couple had two children. The duchesse d’Alençon died in a fire at a charity bazaar in Paris on 4 May 1897. She had refused rescue attempts, insisting that the girls working with her at the bazaar be saved first.

Photographed by Camille Silvy of London.