Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily, born Maria Amalia Teresa, was a French queen by marriage to Louis Philippe I, King of the French.
Background
Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily was born on April 26, 1782, at the Caserta Palace, Italy.
Education
Maria Amalia was educated in the Catholic tradition.
Career
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.
Achievements
Connections
On November 25, 1809, Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily married Louis Philippe I, they had ten children.
Father:
Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies
Mother:
Maria Carolina of Austria
Sister:
Maria Anna of Naples and Sicily
Sister:
Luisa of Naples and Sicily
Sister:
Maria Clotilde of Naples and Sicily
Sister:
Maria Cristina Amelia of Naples and Sicily
Sister:
Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily
Sister:
Maria Henrietta of Naples and Sicily
Sister:
Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily
Sister:
Maria Isabelle of Naples and Sicily
Sister:
Maria Cristina of Naples and Sicily
Daughter:
Clémentine of Orléans
Daughter:
Marie Christine Caroline Adélaïde Françoise Léopoldine of Orléans
Daughter:
Françoise Louise Caroline of Orléans
Daughter:
Louise of Orléans
Son:
Henri Eugène Philippe Louis of Orléans
Son:
Ferdinand Philippe of Orléans
Son:
Louis of Orleans
Son:
François-Ferdinand-Philippe-Louis-Marie of Orléans
Son:
Antoine Marie Philippe Louis of Orléans
Son:
Charles Ferdinand Louis Philippe Emmanuel of Orléans
Brother:
Gennaro of Naples and Sicily
Brother:
Leopoldo Giovanni Giuseppe Michele of Bourbon-Two Sicilies