Anne of Orleans (1906-1986)
Anne of Orleans , French princess and, by her marriage, duchess of Aoste and vice-reine of Ethiopia, was born on August 5th, 1906, with the castle of Nouvion-in-Thiérache, and died in Sorrento, in Italy, on March 19th, 1986. It is a family member royal Italian.
Family
Anne of Orleans is the second girl of Jean of Orleans (1874-1940), “duke of Own way” and applicant orleanist with the throne of France under the name of “Jean III”, and of his wife, Isabelle of Orleans (1878-1961).
Anne of Orleans is also the sister of another French applicant, Henri of Orleans (1908-1999), “count de Paris” (the “Henri VI” of the orleanists).
November 5th, 1927, Anne from Orleans marries in Naples her first cousin the prince Amédée II of Savoy-Aoste, duke of Aoste, and viceroy of Ethiopia (1937-1941). From this marriage are born two girls:
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Marguerite of Savoy-Aoste (born on April 7th, 1930) which marries, on December 28th, 1953, the archduke Robert of Habsbourg-Lorraine (1915-1996), duke of Modena and second wire of the last Austro-Hungarian emperor, Charles Ier.
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Marie-Christine of Savoy-Aoste (born on September 10th, 1933) which marries, on January 29th, 1967, the prince Casimir of Bourbon (1938), prince of Deux-Siciles.
By Marguerite, Anne of Orleans is the grandmother of the archduke Laurent of Habsbourg-Lorraine (1955), duke of Modena and prince de Belgique by her marriage with the princess Astrid of Belgium (1962).
Biography
The Anne princess passes her childhood to France, in Morocco and to Belgium at the sides of her parents, the duke and the duchess of Own way. After its marriage with prince Amédée, it leaves food to Italy where it attends with her husband the fascistic mediums. But Anne of Orleans, which is hardly interested in the policy, contrary in his brother, really does not adhere to the ideology mussolinienne, which clearly distinguishes it from his/her mother-in-law, Helene of Orleans, entirely conquered with the duce.
In 1935, the Anne princess contracts a violent disease whereas she visits the Egypt and misses dying in Louqsor. But, whereas one announces already his death in Europe, the princess recovers her forces and cures. Of this test, it however keeps all its life of the after-effects.
After the death of her husband in Kenya during the Second world war, the Anne princess settles in Milan until her death.
In the years 1950, the emperor of Ethiopia Hailé Sélassié seeks to meet the duchess dowager of Aoste as a sign of recognition for the respectful attitude which her husband during the Italian conquest of Ethiopia showed him. But government Italian makes to know with sovereign that he would regard such an interview as an affront and the emperor, who cannot be received by the princess as it wished it, his official visit stops to return in its country.
Sources
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Isabelle of Orleans, “countess of Paris”, All is to me happiness (T. 1) , Éditions Robert Laffont, Paris 1978, (ISBN 2-22-100107-9).
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