Louise of Orléans

Louise-Marie Thérèse Charlotte Isabelle d'Orléans, fille de France, and Queen of the Belgians as the wife of King Leopold I. Born in Palermo, Sicily on April 3, 1812, she was the eldest daughter of the future King Louis-Phillippe of the French and his wife Maria Amalia of the Two Sicilies. On August 9, 1832, Louise-Marie married King Leopold I of the Belgians in Compiègne, France. She and Leopold had four children.

• Louis-Philippe Léopold Victor Ernst of Belgium, born on July 24, 1833, but died the following year on May 16, 1834;
• Léopold Louis-Philippe Marie Victor of Saxe-Coburg, born in Brussels on April 9, 1835, the second King of the Belgians;
• Philippe Eugène Ferdinand Marie Clément Baudouin Léopold George, Count of Flanders, born in Laeken on March 24, 1837 and died in Brussels on November 17, 1905, whose son succeeded Leopold II as Albert.
• Marie-Charlotte Amélie Auguste Victoire Clémentine Léopoldine, born in Laeken on June 7, 1840 and died in Meise on January 19, 1927, wife of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico.

Queen Louise-Marie died in Ostende on October 11, 1850. She is buried beside her husband in Royal Crypt of the Church of Notre-Dame de Laeken.