Princesse Marie d'Orléans

A carte-de-visite portrait of Princesse Marie d'Orléans, (1865-1909), daughter of the duc de Chartres.

Princesse Marie Amélie Françoise Hélène d’Orléans was born at Morgan House, Richmond, on 19 January 1865, the eldest child of Robert, Duc de Chartres and his cousin, Françoise d’Orléans. She was thus the great-granddaughter of King Louis Philippe I through both her father and her mother. On 20 October 1885 she married in Paris Valdemar of Denmark (1858-1939), a son of Christian IX of Denmark, and brother of Alexandra, Princess of Wales. She died in Copenhagen on 4 December 1909.

Photographed by Camille Silvy of London.