Marion of Orleans

Marion of Orleans (born Marion Mercedes Gordon-Orr ), “countess of Walk”, was born on September 4th 1942 with Santiago from Chile. It is a French princess of origin chileno-British and a writer of French language.

Family

The Marion princess is the girl of the British James Gordon-Orr and of its wife Chilean Mercedes Devia.

September 23rd, 1972, she marries in Edinburgh, in Scotland, the prince Thibaut of Orleans, count of Walk, and the last of five wire and the eleven children of the prince Henri of Orleans (1908-1999), count de Paris and applicant orleanist with the throne of France, and his wife the free-Brazilian princess Isabelle of Orleans and Bragance (1911-2003).

From this union are born two boys, of which one dies in the cradle:

Robert of Orleans (1976), count of Walk.
Louis-Philippe of Orleans (1979-1980).

Biography

In spite of opposition very clear of count of Paris - which refuses that his/her children marry commoners Marion Gordon-Orr saw a happy relation with the prince Thibaut of Orleans, with which she is linked in 1972.

But as one did not see only love and of fresh water and that the chief of Orleans refuses to financially help his son and his daughter-in-law, two young people launch out in various artistico-financial projects which are unequal successes. Thus, between 1973 and 1974, the count and the countess of Walk publish a series of historical novels which know, at the time, a certain best-seller. But, later, the couple opens an art gallery, street of Nesle, with Saint-Germain-of-Near, which is not long in going bankrupt.

However, to the money worries the painful loss of the second child of the couple is added which dies brutally of septicaemia in 1980 and the humiliation of public funeral where the count of Paris informs all that he considered his grandson as lower than the remainder of the family while refusing to place his small body in the family crypt of Orleans!

After this tragic event, the things go from evil in worse in the life of the Marion princess. In the months which follow funerals of his/her son, Thibaut of Orleans is imprisoned for eighteen months for complicity of flight of works of Article Evidemment, the business makes great noise and the problems of the count and the countess of Walk are found with the One of many newspapers.

Some time after its coming out of prison, Thibaut of Orleans leaves France and his wife to go in Central Africa and to organize there safaris for rich person tourists. It is in this country that the prince finds death mysteriously, on March 23rd, 1983. Marion of Orleans and several of his/her brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law (of which the prince Jacques) think then of an assassination but keep silence, probably to avoid a new scandal, and the official thesis consists of a death by “épanchement péricardiaque bulky”. However, between 1989 and 1991, the mystery of died of prince Thibaut rebounds, without the investigations carried out by justice making it possible to light more what occurred in 1983.

Today, the Marion princess of Orleans lives in the United Kingdom with her son, Robert of Orleans, count of Walk. It republished forever of book since the death of his/her husband.

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