Louis-Ferdinand of Orleans
Louis-Ferdinand Marie Zacharie of Orleans , infant of Spain, was born on November 5th, 1888 with Madrid, in Spain, and is deceased on June 20th, 1945 with Paris, in France. It is a family member royal Spanish.
Family
Louis-Ferdinand of Orleans is the son junior by the prince Antoine of Orleans (1866-1930), duke of Galliera and infant of Spain, and his wife and German cousin the princess Eulalie de Bourbon (1864-1958), infante of Spain.
By his father, it descends from the prince Antoine of Orleans (1824-1890), duke of Montpensier, and the king of the French Louis-Philippe Ier (1773-1850) while, by his mother, he is the grandson of the queen Isabelle II of Spain (1830-1904) and of its husband infant it François d' Assise Bourbon (1822-1902).
September 9th, 1930, Louis-Ferdinand from Orleans marries in London Marie Say (1857-1943), girl of Constant Andre Say and Jeanne Wey and widow of prince Henri Amédée de Broglie (itself wire of Albert de Broglie). From this union which causes, at the time, an enormous scandal because of difference in age of the grooms, is not born any child.
Biography
Born from an unhappy union between a modern and feminist princess and an unsteady and extravagant prince, Louis-Ferdinand of Orleans passes a difficult childhood between Spain, France and England.
In 1899, Louis-Ferdinand and his older brother Alphonse are sent in England to study there in an institution Jesuit, Beaumont College; they remain there until 1904.
July 17th, 1914, the NewYork Times announces the marriage of prince Louis-Ferdinand with a commoner, Béatrice Harrington. It is an error since it is Louis de Bourbon, duke of Ansola, which is actually on the point of marrying the young woman. However, it is not the last time that the name of Louis-Ferdinand will be mixed with the scandal.
In October 1924, the prince is expelled of France after being implied in a drug trafficking. Consequently, the king Alphonse XIII of Spain deprives his cousin of the title of Infant of Spain.
Banished French territories and Spanish, Louis-Ferdinand settles finally with Lisbon. But, in March 1926, it is again stopped by the police force. Disguised as a woman at the luso-Spanish border, one finds on him goods of smuggling, but not of drugs.
In 1929, the marriage of Louis-Ferdinand with an actress of Broadway, Mabelle Gilman Corey, ex woman of the tycoon of tin William E. Corey, is announced but the nuptials are finally cancelled a few times afterwards.
In July of the following year, Louis-Ferdinand finally becomes engaged to widowed Marie Say, richissime of prince de Broglie and owner of the Château of Chaumont-sur-Loire. The advertisement makes scandal: Louis-Ferdinand is indeed old of almost 42 years whereas its dulcinée has 73 of them!
Little time after, a nephew of the princess of Broglie, the duke François of Thimble-Brissac (1868-1944), tries to stop the marriage and launches an action in front of the Court of Bankruptcy of the Seine. The duke declares indeed that his/her aunt is mentally unable and that its been engaged seeks to benefit from it. Marie explains as for it that it had already reconsidered with the marriage twelve years before but had delayed the thing because of her grandchildren. The court determines in any case that a nephew does not have the right to be opposed to the union of his aunt. A commission of three doctors is however installation to check the mental health of Marie and a receiver is appointed to direct the succession of the widow.
In September 1930, Louis-Ferdinand of Orleans marries finally Marie Say at the time of a civil ceremony in London. One month later, on October 4th, the couple is linked in a religious ceremony with the cathedral San Siro of San Remo, on will riviera Italian. After their marriage, Louis-Ferdinand and his wife settle in San Remo, in a residence offered to the prince by his mother, the infante Eulalie of Spain. The couple carries out large train and the scrupulous not very Louis-Ferdinand wastes in a few years the fortune of his wife.
In February 1935, Louis-Ferdinand is expelled once again of France after it was stopped at the time of a police raid.
The Marie princess dies ruined in 1943 and her husband spends the two following years patient, in Paris, where he dies in 1945. Its body is buried with the church of the Immaculate Heart of Marie, 51 bis rue de la Pompe, in Paris.