Marie-Dorothée of Habsbourg-Lorraine

Marie Dorothée Amélie of Habsbourg-Lorraine , archduchess of Austria, princess of Hungary , and “duchess of Orleans”, was born on June 14th 1867 with Alcsuth, in Hungary, and died in the same city on April 6th 1932. For the orleanists, it is queen of the French of 1894 to its death.

Family

The Marie-Dorothée archduchess is the girl of the archduke Joseph of Habsbourg-Lorraine (1833-1905), Count Palatine of Hungary, and his wife the princess Clotilde of Saxony-Cobourg-Kohary (1846-1927).

By her father, the princess is the back-small-girl of the emperor Léopold II of Austria (1747-1792) while, by her mother, it is the back-small-girl of the king of the French Louis-Philippe Ier (1773-1850).

November 5th 1896, the archduchess marries, with Vienna, Philippe of Orleans (1869-1926), “duke of Orleans” and applicant orleanist with the throne of France. But Marie-Dorothée is sterile and, from this unhappy union, is not born any descent.

Biography

The Marie-Dorothée marriage and of Philippe of Orleans in 1896 fact, for a time, to give up the chief of Orleans great forwardings of which it was usual. But the prince preserves all the same his taste of the voyages and it launches out, since 1897, in Mediterranean cruisings aboard the Maroussia yacht, in company of his wife.

But, the years passing, the relations of the princely couple are degraded and the applicant decides to take again his forwardings overseas. Marie-Dorothée spends then more and more time, each year, in the castle of her family, with Alcsuth, to Hungary.

Despite everything, in 1906, prince Philippe tries to join again with his wife and goes near it in order to convince it to settle with him with the Manoir of Anjou, close to Brussels. Waste of time and effort, Marie-Dorothée of Habsbourg-Lorraine refuses any Net and the applicant orleanist must take again his life of recluse. It should be said that the decision of the archduchess is so firm that, when bursts the First World War in 1914, she decides to remain in Hungary in spite of her French marriage, decision that her husband will never forgive him.

Today, the separation of the duke and the duchess of Orleans remains visible across death. Marie-Dorothée is indeed buried in the crypt of the Palais Royal of Bude while the remainders of her husband rest in the Royal Chapelle of Dreux.

Internal bonds

  • Joseph of Habsbourg-Hungary

Source

  • Poisson, Georges, Orleans, a family in search of a throne , Perrin, Paris, 1999.

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