Princess Isabelle of Orléans

Princess of France

Died when: 82 years 77 days (986 months)
Star Sign: Sagittarius

 

Princess Isabelle Françoise Hélène Marie d'Orléans (27 November 1900, Le Nouvion-en-Thiérache, France – 12 February 1983, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) was a member of the House of Orléans and, by marriage, a member of the ducal Harcourt family and of the princely House of Murat.

She was one of the four children of Prince Jean, Duke of Guise (1874–1940), who would become the Orleanist pretender to the French throne in 1926, and his wife Princess Isabelle of Orléans.

Although born in France, her parents moved the family to Morocco in 1909, then a French colony.She was with her mother and siblings visiting France when World War I broke out in 1914.

While her father sought in vain to obtain permission from the French government to serve in the military, the rest of the family hastened back to Morocco.

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