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Princess Adélaïde o Orléans

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Princess Adélaïde o Orléans
Princess o Orléans
Princess Adélaïde o Orleans bi Winterhalter.
Born23 August 1777(1777-08-23)
Palais Royal, Paris, Fraunce
Dee'd31 December 1847(1847-12-31) (aged 70)
Palais des Tuileries, Paris, Fraunce
BuirialRyal Chapel, Dreux, Fraunce
Full name
Eugène Adélaïde Louise d'Orléans
HooseHoose o Orléans
FaitherPhilippe Égalité
MitherLouise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon

Princess Adélaïde o Orléans (Eugène Adélaïde Louise; 23 August 1777 - 31 December 1847) wis ane o the twin dochters o Philippe Égalité an his wife Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon. Adélaïde received painting lessons frae Pierre Joseph Redouté and produced some highly-regarded botanical studies as a result. During the ring o her elder brither Louis Philippe I Adélaïde would become ane o his personal advisors. She wis the anly surviving sister o the future king. During her brother's ring she would be kent as Madame Adélaïde. An wis created a Princess o Orléans, with the style o Ryal Highness.

Background

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Adélaïde wis born at the Palais Royal in Paris an wis a twin (her sister would die in 1782) in childhood she wis kent an styled as Mademoiselle d'Orléans, an her godparents were Keeng Louis XVI an Queen Marie Antoinette.

Teetles an styles

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Ither wabsteids

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