Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy
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| Princess Maria Clotilde | |
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| Princess Napoléon | |
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| Photograph by Etienne Neurdein | |
| Spouse | Napoléon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte |
| Issue | |
| Prince Victor Napoléon Prince Louis Princess Letizia |
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| Full name | |
| Ludovica Teresa Maria Clotilde | |
| Father | Victor Emmanuel II of Italy |
| Mother | Maria Adelaide of Austria |
| Born | March 2, 1843 Turin |
| Died | June 25, 1911 (aged 68) Moncalieri |
Princess Ludovica Teresa Maria Clotilde of Savoy (2 March 1843 – 25 June 1911) was born in Turin to Vittorio Emanuele II, later King of Italy and his first wife Maria Adelaide of Austria.
On 30 January 1859 she was married in Turin to Napoléon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte (1822–1891). Before they separated in 1870 she bore him three children:
- Napoléon Victor Bonaparte (1862–1926).
- Louis (1864–1932).
- Letizia (1866–1926), who in 1888 became the second wife of her uncle Amedeo (1845–1890), Duke of Aosta, and from 1870 until 1873 King of Spain.
The marriage was arranged for political reasons and not a happy one, and she had agreed to it against her will. Her husband was unfaitgful, and she was active within charity. She is described as very proud and dutyful. During a discussion of the proper way of dressing, she pointed out to Empress Eugenie, that Eugenie should not forget that Maria was born and brought up at a royal court. In 1870, she initially refused to leave Paris when the revolution broke out, because of her sense of what was suitable for a princess form the house of Savoy; to stay on her post. After the revolution, she lived the rest of her life in Moncalieri, were she spent her days devoting herself to religion.
Maria Clotilde died in Moncalieri at the age of 68.
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- The initial version of this article was based on it’s counterpart in the Italian Wikipedia as it stood on 2007-03-03. [1]
