| Princess Marie Louise | |
| Full Name: | French: Marie Louise Ferdinande Charlotte Henriette |
| Spouse: | |
| Issue: | Prince Gaetano |
| House: | Orléans |
| Father: | Prince Emmanuel of Orléans, Duke of Vendôme |
| Mother: | Princess Henriette of Belgium |
| Birth Date: | 31 December 1896 |
| Birth Place: | Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France |
| Death Place: | New York City, U.S. |
Princess Marie Louise Ferdinande Charlotte Henriette of Orléans (31 December 1896 - 8 March 1973) was a Princess of Orléans by birth and a Princess of Bourbon-Two Sicilies through her marriage to Prince Philip of Bourbon-Two Sicilies.
Princess Marie Louise was born on 31 December 1896 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France. She was the eldest daughter and child of Prince Emmanuel of Orléans, Duke of Vendôme and his wife, Princess Henriette of Belgium.[1]
Her paternal grandparents were Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Alençon and Duchess Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria and her maternal grandparents were Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders and Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. She was a great-granddaughter of Leopold I, the first king of Belgium, and a great-great-granddaughter of Louis Philippe I, the last king of France.[2]
Marie Louise married firstly to Prince Philip of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, tenth child of Prince Alfonso of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Count of Caserta, and his wife, Princess Antonietta of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, on 12 January 1916 at her father's home in Neuilly-sur-Seine.[3] The couple had one child before their divorce in 1925:[4]
Marie Louise married secondly to Walter F. Kingsland Jr. (1888-1961), a prominent New York businessman, on 12 December 1928 in Chichester, Sussex, England.[7] [8] His father owned a "palatial home in the Bois de Boulogne" and his grandfather was Ambrose Kingsland, the former Mayor of New York City.[9] Marie Louise and Walter did not have children, and lived in Redding, Connecticut, for twenty years.[10]
Marie Louise died on 8 March 1973 in New York City.[11]
Through her only son Prince Gaetano,[12] she was the grandmother of two grandsons: Adrian Philip de Bourbon (b. 1948),[6] who married Linda Idensohn on 20 March 1976, and Gregory Peter de Bourbon (b. 1950),[6] who married, firstly, Maureen Powell on 15 May 1971.[6] They divorced in 1986. They have two sons. He remarried to Carrie Anne Thornley on 30 August 1986.