Henri, Count of Paris (1933–2019)
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Henri d'Orléans | |
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Count of Paris, Duke of France | |
![]() Henri d'Orléans, Count of Paris, in Poissy, April 27, 2014, at the celebrations of the 8th centenary of the birth of Saint Louis. | |
Head of the House of Orléans | |
Tenure | 19 June 1999 – 21 January 2019 |
Predecessor | Henri, Count of Paris |
Successor | Jean, Count of Paris |
Born | Henri Philippe Pierre Marie d'Orléans 14 June 1933 Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, Belgium |
Died | 21 January 2019 Paris, France | (aged 85)
Spouse | Duchess Marie Therese of Württemberg (m. 1957; div. 1984)Micaela Cousiño Quiñones de León (m. 1984) |
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Roman Catholicism | |
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Henri Philippe Pierre Marie d'Orléans (14 June 1933 – 21 January 2019)[1] was the Orléanist pretender to the defunct French throne as Henry VII. He used the title count of Paris.
He was head of the
Early life
He was the first son of
Despite the ban, while living in Belgium Henri occasionally accompanied his mother on brief visits to France and, later, to his mother's relatives in Brazil.
The law of exile was abrogated in 1950, allowing Henri to repatriate with his parents.[4] Later that year, his parents purchased an estate near Paris, the Manoir du Cœur-Volant in Louveciennes, which became Henri's first home in France.[3]
Henri studied at the
Career
From October 1959 to April 1962, Henri worked at the Secretariat-General for National Defence and Security as a member of the French Foreign Legion.[5] Transferred from there to a garrison in Germany, he took up a new assignment as military instructor at Bonifacio in Corsica, where his wife and children joined him early in 1963.[5]
Returning to civilian life in 1967, Henri and his family briefly occupied the Blanche Neige pavilion on the grounds of his father's Cœur-Volant estate before renting an apartment of their own in the 15th arrondissement of Paris.[5] In the early 1970s Clermont managed public relations for the Geneva office of a Swiss investment firm while dwelling in Corly.[5]
Henri wrote several books, including:
- À mes fils (1989)
- Adresse au futur chef d'État (1994)
- Désolé, Altesse, c’est mon jour de sortie (1994)
- La France survivra-t-elle à l'an 2000 (1997)
- Le passeur de miroir (2000)
- La France à bout de bras (2002)
- L'histoire en héritage (2003)
- La Royauté de l'Homme (2016)[6]
Henri was also a painter and launched his own brand of perfume. His political career included unsuccessfully contesting the 2004 European elections for the Alliance Royale, a monarchist party.[7]
Marriages and children
Henri met
- Boulogne-sur-Seine) married civilly in Dreux, on 22 July 1989, and religiously in Friedrichshafen, on 29 July 1989, to Prince Gundakar of Liechtenstein (born on 1 April 1949 in Vienna), and has issue:
- Princess Léopoldine of Liechtenstein (born 27 June 1990, Vienna)
- Princess Marie Immaculata of Liechtenstein (born 15 December 1991, Vienna)
- Prince Johann Wenzel of Liechtenstein (born 17 March 1993, Vienna)
- Princess Margarete of Liechtenstein (born 10 January 1995, Vienna)
- Prince Gabriel of Liechtenstein (born 6 May 1998, Vienna)
- Prince François, Count of Clermont (7 February 1961 in Boulogne-sur-Seine – 30 December 2017)
- Princess Blanche d'Orléans (born 10 September 1963 in Ravensburg).
- Maria Philomena Magdalena Juliana Johanna de Tornos y Steinhart, and religiously at the Senlis Cathedralon 2 May 2009. The couple has six children:
- Prince Gaston of Orléans (born 19 November 2009, Paris)
- Princess Antoinette d'Orléans (born 28 January 2012, Vienna)
- Princess Louise-Marguerite d'Orléans (born 30 July 2014, Poissy)
- Prince Joseph d'Orléans (born 2 June 2016)
- Princess Jacinthe d'Orléans (born 9 October 2018)
- Prince Alphonse d'Orléans (born 31 December 2023)
- Prince Eudes, Duke of Angoulême, (born 18 March 1968, Paris), married civilly in Dreux on 19 June 1999, and religiously in Antrain on 10 July 1999, to Marie-Liesse de Rohan-Chabot (born on 29 June 1969 in Paris), with whom he has two children.
In 1984, Henri and Marie-Thérèse were divorced. On 31 October 1984 Henri entered a
On 11 February 1989 Henri was informed, by a hand-delivered letter written by his former wife, of the engagement of their eldest child
However, it was on this occasion that Henri learned that he would not be escorting Marie to her bridegroom during the wedding.[5] Meanwhile, Marie-Thérèse had sent out invitations to the wedding in her name alone,[5] omitting not only mention of Marie's father, but also of her grandfather, Monseigneur the Count of Paris who, until then, had largely sided with the Duchess of Montpensier in family matters and had consented to his granddaughter's choice of a spouse. This prompted father and son to join in calling for a familial boycott of the nuptials.[5][9] Henri and his father refused to attend the wedding but Marie proceeded to marry civilly at Dreux's city hall on 22 July 1989, and religiously at the castle of her mother's brother in Germany, on 29 July 1989. All but two of Henri's eight siblings also boycotted the ceremonies, but his sister Diane (wife of Montpensier's brother) hosted, and Henri's mother, Madame the Countess of Paris, was a guest at the religious wedding.[5]
Tensions lessened after several years, and on 7 March 1991 Henri's father reinstated him as heir apparent and Count of Clermont, simultaneously giving Micaëla the title "Princesse de Joinville".[5]
In 1980, Henri joined the
Head of house
Until he succeeded his father as royal claimant, Henri and his second wife occupied an apartment in Paris.
After his father's death, Henri annulled his father's decision to deprive his brothers Michel (
Henri recognised his disabled eldest son François as his dynastic heir-apparent, with the title
In 2009, Henri obtained an annulment of his marriage to Marie-Thérèse of Württemberg from the Holy See. He remarried his second wife, Micaëla Cousiño, in the Catholic Church in September of that year.[14]
As Count of Paris, Henri took part in some European royal events attending, for instance, the 2011 marriage of
Legal cases
Prior to succeeding his father as royal claimant, Henri launched an unsuccessful court case (1987–1989) in which he challenged the right of his rival cousin
After his father's death, a court-appointed lawyer searched through the late count's effects on behalf of his nine living children, to reclaim what remained of the family's dissipated fortune. Jewels, art-work, and an exceptional medieval illustrated manuscript were found. These were auctioned off, raising approximately US$14 million.[citation needed]
In 2000 bailiffs pursued Henri for US$143,000 back rent after he fled the Villa Boileau, a 17th-century Paris house he had occupied.[12]
Ancestors
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Honours
- France:
- Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honour (30 April 2008)[17]
- Cross for Military Valour (8 May 1959)[18]
- Combatant Cross[18]
- North Africa Security and Order Operations Commemorative Medal[18]
- Knight of the
- Protector of the Orléans Obedience of the Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem (12 September 2014, resign at Easter 2012)
- Montenegro, House of Montenegro: Grand-Cross with Gold Star of the Order of Prince Danilo I (3 December 2005)[19]
- Two Sicilies House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies: Bailiff Knight Grand Cross of Justice of the Calabrian Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George
- House of Württemberg : Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown
See also
References
- ^ "Le comte de Paris, Henri d'Orléans, est décédé". parismatch.com. Retrieved 25 March 2023.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-8063-4942-8.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Valynseele, Joseph [in French] (1967). Les Prétendants aux Trônes d'Europe (in French). France: Saintard de la Rochelle. pp. 179, 186–187, 198, 201, 204, 207–209, 212.
- ^ Johnson, Douglas (21 June 1999). "Obituary: Le Comte de Paris". The Independent. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
- ^ ISBN 978-2-913211-00-1.
- ^ Meylan, Vincent (2016). "Comte de Paris: Il Faut Rendre Leur Dignité aux Hommes". Point de Vue (in French): 33.
- ^ Elliot, Matthew (17 May 2016). "Could restoring a bunch of kings solve Europe's democratic deficit?". New Statesman. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
- ^ "CHRISTENING: THERESE, DAUGHTER OF EUDES OF FRANCE". Getty Images.
- ^ "Snubbing a Wedding", The New York Times, 18 August 1989
- ^ Jiri Pragman (25 March 2012). "Freemaons princes and kings" (in French). Archived from the original on 31 January 2019.
- ^ "^ Henri d'Orléans est passé à l'Orient éternel" (in French). 22 January 2019. Archived from the original on 23 January 2019.
- ^ a b Paris hunting down rent-skipping royal, Chicago Sun-Times, 19 November 2000
- ^ Leonard, Seth B. (14 March 2022). "Eurohistory: The Passing of the Dowager Countess of Paris (1938-2022)". Eurohistory. Retrieved 29 June 2022.
- ^ Marie Desnos – Parismatch.com. "Paris Match 28 Sept 2009". ParisMatch.com. Archived from the original on 28 July 2012.. Archived: 28 July 2012.
- ^ "Paris Match Royal Blog". Parismatch.com. Archived from the original on 31 August 2012. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
- ^ "Cour d'appel de Paris (1re Ch. sect. A)", Prince Henri d'Orléans, comte de Clermont et Prince Sixte Henri de Bourbon Parme c. Carmen Rossi 22 novembre 1989, Gazette du Palais, 8 March 1990
- ^ Présidence de la République (3 May 2008). "Ordre National de la Légion d'Honneur, Décret du 30 avril 2008 portant promotion et nomination". Journal officiel de la République française. Paris. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
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- ^ "Investiture – 3 December 2005". Archived from the original on 12 May 2006. Retrieved 12 May 2006.
Bibliography
- Opfell, Olga S. (2001). "H.R.H. Henri, Count of Paris: Royal House of France House of Bourbon-Orleans". Royalty Who Wait: The 21 Heads of Formerly Regnant Houses of Europe. Jefferson. pp. 21–32.
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