Background
Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily was born on April 26, 1782, at the Caserta Palace, Italy.
Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily was born on April 26, 1782, at the Caserta Palace, Italy.
Maria Amalia was educated in the Catholic tradition.
She took no interest in politics and devoted her life to her husband and the bringing up of her children.
She married the exiled Louis-Philippe, then she went with him to France when Louis XVIII became king after Napoleon’s 1814 downfall, but she fled to England during the Hundred Days (1815) and returned to Paris in 1817. When Louis-Philippe ascended the throne in 1830, she lived in fear of a new revolution and avoided public life. With the abdication of Louis-Philippe in February 1848, they went to England. She was widowed in 1850. Her Journal was published in two volumes (1938–1943).
Maria Amalia Teresa died on March 24, 1866, aged 83.
On November 25, 1809, Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily married Louis Philippe I, they had ten children.
Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies was the King of the Two Sicilies from 1816, after his restoration following victory in the Napoleonic Wars.
Maria Carolina of Austria was Queen of Naples and Sicily by marriage.
Maria Anna of Naples and Sicily was a member of the French Royal Family (branched out to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies).
Luisa of Naples and Sicily was a Neapolitan and Sicilian princess and the wife of the third Habsburg Grand Duke of Tuscany.
Maria Clotilde of Naples and Sicily was a member of the House of Bourbon in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
Maria Cristina Amelia of Naples and Sicily was a Princess of Naples and Sicily.
Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily was the last Holy Roman Empress and the first Empress of Austria by marriage.
Maria Henrietta of Naples and Sicily was a member of the House of Bourbon and a Princess of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily was a Princess of Naples and Sicily.
Maria Isabelle of Naples and Sicily was a member of the French Royal Family (branched out to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies).
Maria Cristina of Naples and Sicily was a member of the House of Bourbon in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies; she was stillborn.
Clémentine of Orléans was a Princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and duchess in Saxony.
Marie Christine Caroline Adélaïde Françoise Léopoldine of Orléans was a French Princess and, by her marriage, duchess of Württemberg.
Françoise Louise Caroline of Orléans was a French Princess.
Louise of Orléans was a French Princess who became the first Queen of the Belgians as the second wife of King Leopold I.
Henri Eugène Philippe Louis of Orléans was a leader of the Orleanists, a political faction in 19th-century France associated with constitutional monarchy.
Ferdinand Philippe of Orléans was a French Prince and heir to the House of Orléans from birth.
Louis of Orleans was a French Prince.
François-Ferdinand-Philippe-Louis-Marie of Orléans was King of the French and an admiral of the French Navy.
Antoine Marie Philippe Louis of Orléans was a member of the French royal family in the House of Orléans.
Charles Ferdinand Louis Philippe Emmanuel of Orléans was a Duke of Penthièvre.
Gennaro of Naples and Sicily was a Prince of Naples and Sicily.
Leopoldo Giovanni Giuseppe Michele of Bourbon-Two Sicilies was a member of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies and a Prince of Bourbon-Two Sicilies.
Carlo Gennaro of Naples and Sicily was a member of the House of Bourbon in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
Carlo of Naples and Sicily was Duke of Calabria as heir to Naples and Sicily.
Alberto of Naples and Sicliy was a Prince of Naples and Sicily.
Francis I of the Two Sicilies was King of the Two Sicilies from 1825 to 1830.
Giuseppe of Naples and Sicily was a Prince of Naples and Sicily.
Louis Philippe I was King of the French from 1830 to 1848 as the leader of the Orléanist party.
