#princess hélène of orléans

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Descendants of the Tudors

[la-belle-histoire]

Princess Hélène of Orléans, 1905.

[inky-duchess]

I was thinking of having my Princess convert to the religion of her husband. Has such a thing ever occured in history?

Yes, it has numerous times and often it's a requirement for a new bride, to ensure the heirs are born of the religion. But sometimes it can be up to them. However, lack of conversion can sometimes cause problems. For examples, read up on Alexandra Feodorovna, Mary of Modena, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, Princess Hélène of Orléans

[elsalouisa]

Last letters between princess Hélène of Orléans and Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence.

"My dear Eddy, It is with deep sorrow that I write to you, for what I have to tell you costs me a great deal and I need all my courage. I have always flattered myself with the illusion that what is not possible today will one day perhaps become possible—and you know how much I have longed for this. Alas, I see clearly that I was wrong; a marriage will always be impossible, the political obstacles are unsurmountable and as for those raised by my religion, I cannot dishonour you and [| will not cast them aside. In spite of all the suffering it costs me, | am forced to renounce the happiness I have dreamed of and with this letter I bid you farewell. I owe it to you, to your parents, to the Queen, who has been so kind to me, not to stand in the way of what England expects from you. I must ask you to release me from my word; I return to you that which, in my illusion, | truly felt able to accept, and, at the same time, I send back the things which were so precious to me, but which I have no right to keep. I ask you to show this letter to your parents. I beg you, do not try to fight against my decision, it is irrevocable, we must not see one another again. Do your duty as an English Prince without hesitation and forget me. Hélène"

"My dearest Hélène,

No words can possibly describe the misery I felt on reading your letter given me by your dear Mama, and I can hardly bring myself to believe that you or your own free will have decided that all should be over between us two, and that your decision is irrevocable, and that it is an utter impossibility for you ever to change your religion, even for my sake. You well know how deeply rooted my devotion for you is, and it almost breaks my heart to think that our lives must be spent apart. Of course, | suppose | ought to try and submit to your parents and your own decision, but it seems to me impossible to realise that such is to be our fate. God bless you and may He help us both to do what is right. Though the cross is laid upon us, it is indeed a heavy one to bear. Yours, Eddy".

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More Hélène of Orléans, Duchess of Aosta (from top to bottom) -

Princess Helene of Orléans by ?. From antique-royals.tumblr.com/post/110099659143/princess-helene-of-orleans 676X1055.

1895 Hélène d'Orléans on her wedding day by ?. Posted to Foro Dinastias by Minnie on 1 November 2009; removed mono-color tint 623X951. Geri Walton (geriwalton.com/princess-helene-of-orleans-potential-suitors-wedding-trousseau/) quoted the Gloucester Citizen: “The bridal dress shows her to be extremely tall, and is placed on a dressmaker’s lay figure. It also shows her to be very slight. Old Orleanists say the Princess has the figure of her grandmother, the late Duchesse d’Orleans. The wedding dress is of thick creamy white faille, rather lack lustre. The edge of the skirt is bordered with a garland of orange blossoms. The train is not made to be supported by bridesmaids, but is three yards long, and is lined with white moiré, which throws it well out from the figure. The corsage is made a little in the blouse style, with three deep pleats in back and front. It looks loose thought a close fit, and has a kind of ruff arrangement round the neck formed of finely pleated white silk gauze, dotted with orange blossoms and supported with a number of bows of white faille ribbon. This part is very light and graceful, and will look well round a swan-like neck. The sleeves fit closely to the fore-arm, and gigots above the elbow. They are not at all so ample as sleeves now generally are. The veil is nearly three yards long and two wide, and will fall over the whole dress. The arms of France and Savoy are brought into this design. The wreath of orange blossoms from which it will fall is arranged like a diadem, and must add to the impression of height.”

1895 Hélène d'Orléans, duchesse d'Aosta wedding. I found this before I recorded sources of images 484X479.

1898 Princess Hélène of Orléans, Duchess of Aosta by Giacomo Grosso (Castello de La Mandria - Venaria Reale, Torino, Piemonte, Italy). From history-of-fashion.tumblr.com/image/632517363094405120 1178X2142.

1900s Helene, Duchess of Aosta, neé Princess d´Orleans. From carolathhabsburg.tumblr.com/page/74; fixed spots w Pshop and removed mono-color tint 1044X1400.

Hélène, Duchess of Aosta color image. From Google search 450X594.

ca. 1898 Duchess Hélène of Aosta, shortly after the birth of her first son. From hmn.wiki/ru/Princess_Hélène_of_Orléans 1280X1974.

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Princess Hélène of Orléans, 1905

[arrhakis]

The Baroque Portuguese Roosters - The Missing Porcelain Collection of Queen Dona Amélia by Daniel Arrhakis (2023)

Dona Maria Amélia (French: Marie Amélie Louise Hélène; 28 September 1865 – 25 October 1951) was the last Queen consort of Portugal as the wife of Carlos I of Portugal.

She was regent of Portugal during the absence of her spouse in 1895.

She was the eldest daughter of Prince Philippe, Count of Paris and Princess Marie Isabelle d'Orléans, and a "Princess of Orléans" by birth.

On 22 May 1886, Amélia married Carlos, Prince Royal of Portugal. He was the eldest son of King Luís I of Portugal and Maria Pia of Savoy.

As queen, however, Amelia played a very important role. With her elegance and cultured character, she influenced the Portuguese court.

Interested in eradicating the evils of the time, such as poverty and tuberculosis, she founded dispensaries, sanatoriums, economic kitchens and daycare centers, thus demonstrating her interest in the well-being of the Portuguese population.

However, his best-known works are the foundations of the Instituto de Socorros a Náufragos (in 1892); the Royal Coach Museum (1905); the Pasteur Institute in Portugal (Instituto Câmara Pestana) and the National Assistance for Tuberculosis.

On 1 February 1908, the royal family returned from the palace of Vila Viçosa to Lisbon. They traveled in the royal train to Barreiro and from there took a boat to cross the Tagus River.

They disembarked at Cais das Colunas in the principal square of downtown Lisbon, the Terreiro do Paço.

On their way to the Palace of Necessidades, while crossing the square and turning to the street, several shots were fired from the crowd by at least two men, among others.

The King died immediately, his heir Prince Dom Luís was mortally wounded and Infante Dom Manuel was hit in the arm, yet Queen Amélie surprisingly unharmed trying to defend her youngest son, the new king Manuel II, with the flower bouquet she kept in her hand.

Her reaction at the time of the regicide was to brandish the bouquet of flowers she was carrying in her hand and shout at one of the regicides to back down, an image that made the covers of newspapers across Europe.

The regicide of 1908 plunged her into deep grief, from which D. Amélia never fully recovered. She then retired to the Palácio da Pena, in Sintra, without ceasing, however, to try to support, by all means, her young son, King D. Manuel II.

Manuel II of Portugal was deposed by a military coup, later known as the 5 October 1910 revolution, which resulted in the establishment of the Portuguese First Republic. Queen Amélie left Portugal with the rest of the royal family, embarks in Ericeira on the yacht Amélia, heading for Gibraltar.

She lived decades of suffering in exile, between England and France. During the Second World War the Portuguese government of Salazar invited her to return to Portugal, but she declined the offer replying “In my misfortune, France welcomed me, I will not abandon her in her misfortune”.

She visited Portugal for the last time in 1945. In 1951 at the time of her death, her last words were “Take me to Portugal”. She is buried in the Bragança pantheon, in São Vicente de Fora.

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In the midst of this tragedy, I decided to create a collection of porcelain roosters in her honor. Whether it exists or not will remain in the secret of History and Stories.

In France since ancient times, the rooster has appeared on Gallic coins and it became a symbol of Gaul and the Gauls.

But also in Portugal since the Middle Ages, with emphasis on the medieval legend of the Rooster of Barcelos.

The rooster is also considered the symbol of Portugal, both because of its rusticity, representing our countryside and because it is traditionally associated with positive things and virtues.

You can find it on many facades of secular churches in Portugal.

Queen Dona Amélia had a very special adoration for porcelain roosters and throughout her life in Portugal between the Palaces of Pena and Vila Viçosa, many evenings were spent drawing and painting , like King D. Carlos.

Her roosters drawn and painted by her were later reproduced by great Portuguese ceramists as unique pieces that were then part of her extensive collection and one of Queen Dona Amélia's best kept secrets.

"My Beautiful Baroque Roosters" as she called them were left behind at the Pena Palace, after her departure into exile, with the exception of a few specimens, which she took on the Dona Amélia Yacht on her initial trip to Gibraltar.

With time and the vicissitudes of the revolutionary times of the First Republic, Queen Dona Amélia's collection of Portuguese Baroque Roosters disappeared without a trace, until today when I present you a glimpse into this collection created in dreams...

Each Rooster has the name of a Portuguese municipality or locality.

I hope you like it ! : )

(via The Baroque Portuguese Roosters - The Missing Porcelain Co… | Flickr)

[agentreynard]

Couple weeks ago I posted a little Red White and Royal Blue fic, and the other day I made a royal family family tree with, yes, the extra members I referred to in it, but also (obvs) those who appear in the book and the movie, and I think it can be made to comply with either canon with only a small number of slight adjustments.

Readers who are not interested in my fic will disregard everyone on the right side of the diagram, beginning with Princess Louise b. 1964 and all the way to the edge of the page. But otherwise, reading from the bottom up, check it out:

The film calls Philip Duke of Cambridge, but the book seems to suggest Cambridge is what Henry will be created duke of when he marries, so I gave Philip the dukedom of Kendal instead. (The film also makes Henry the middle child, so swap them round if you want.)

I believe making Catherine the Princess of Wales and her late husband the Duke of Edinburgh works for both the film and the book; in the book Henry says they all used Wales as a surname at school, but even if a monarch with no sons created their eldest daughter Princess of Wales they wouldn’t make her husband Prince of Wales, so Arthur can be imagined to have accepted the dukedom of Edinburgh out of necessity—so when film!Henry tells the kids in the oncology ward that his mother is the Duchess of Edinburgh, he’s not wrong (I mean, why would he get his own mother’s title wrong, but you know what I mean).

I’ve made Henry’s grandparents James and Mary so they can be either King James III (shown here) as in the film or Queen Mary III as in the book. (She wasn’t numbered in the book, but there have been two Queens regnant Mary, so.) I threw in John II for book!Henry when he yells at Philip that they had a great-uncle who abdicated because he was a Nazi; he’d have had to abdicate because he had been a Nazi or else he’d have had to have been much older than James Or Mary, but that’s fine. Lop him off the tree if you’re film-only and don’t care about that line in the book.

Take the previous generation or leave it; I needed that layer to get the extant Cumberlands into the royal family whose schedules Alex was looking up, but they’re not necessary for the film or the book, so it’s fine to stretch the generations out a few years if you like and make Helena Victoria the kids’ great-grandmother rather than great-great; then you can give her husband whichever surname you prefer, Mountchristen (book, and assume it hyphenated with Windsor after the royal family changed it to Windsor in WWI as happened in real life) or Hanover-Stuart (film, and I think that name had to come back in from outside, because in a world that has the Victoria and Albert Museum the Hanover and [especially] Stuart dynasties were both long gone).

Queen Helena Victoria is the furthest-back person I invented myself; I made her the matriarch of this fictitious (counterfactual, nonhistorical, whatever) royal family by suggesting that in RWRB world (a) Prince Albert Victor, the eldest son of Edward VII, did not die in 1892 as he did in ours and (b) Edward VII himself did die of the appendicitis that in our world only delayed his coronation ceremony by a few months. That gives us a solid year of Edward VII cementing the role he’d pretty well established for the whole royal family in his long tenure as Prince of Wales (he really instituted the “appearance” as we now know it) but gets him out of the way eight years earlier than in real life to make way for his fictitious heirs.

I have allowed this Prince Albert Victor, who isn’t dead after all, to marry his true love, Hélène of Orléans, who I assume in this timeline was allowed to convert to C of E to marry him rather than forbidden by both her father and the Pope to leave the Catholic church. That being the case, it could be that his younger brother Prince George—known to the real world as George V—would have married Mary of Teck (who in real life had, before she married George, been engaged to Albert Victor at the time of his death) and had the same children and grandchildren he had in real life, only nobody cares? But even more likely is that Mary of Teck never entered into the matter, because Albert Victor married Hélène so Mary wasn’t called for, and this fictitious spare George married Marie of Edinburgh, whom he proposed to first. Or maybe he died young, rather than surviving typhoid as he did in real life in 1892 around the same time pneumonia got his brother. In any event, given a surviving Albert Victor, George’s descendants would be as peripheral by now to the fictitious royal family as the descendants of Victoria’s younger children are to the real one. (That is, it’s probably been enough generations that they could marry back in, but otherwise, pfft.)

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Sua Altezza Reale la Duchessa Elean d'Aosta Princess Hélène of Orléans (French: Princesse Hélène Louise Henriette d'Orléans; 13 June 1871 – 21 January 1951) was a member of the deposed Orléans royal family of France and, by marriage to the head of a cadet branch of the Italian royal family, the Duchess of Aosta. the #sighthound #bulletin

[bforbetterthanyou]

Descendants of the Tudors

[tiaramania]

I know! I wish the picture didn’t cut off so that we could see it. It almost looks like the emerald necklace that belonged to Princess Hélène of Savoy-Aosta née Orléans but we’d have to see more of it to know for sure.

The necklace makes it’s way around the different estate/antique jewelers and was last sold at Christie’s in 2019 so it wouldn’t be out of question for her to be wearing it and it would have been awesome for her to wear something that belonged to another Hélène d’Orleans.

TIARA ALERT-ISH: Princess Hélène of Orleans wore a diamond tiara as a necklace for Le Bal des Débutantes at the Shangri La Hotel in Paris on 26 November 2022.

[history-of-fashion]

1898 Giacomo Grosso - Princess Hélène of Orléans, Duchess of Aosta

(Castle of La Mandria)

[books0977]

Study for Portrait of Princess Marie Amélie Françoise Hélène of Danmark, née princess of Orléans (1894). Albert Edelfelt (Finnish, 1854-1905). Pastel.

Marie was described as impulsive, witty, and energetic, and introduced a more relaxed style to the stiff Danish court. She never fully learned to speak Danish. The marriage was friendly. She gave her children a free upbringing, and her artistic taste and Bohemian habits dominated her household. She was informal, not snobbish, believed in social equality, expressed her own opinions, and performed her ceremonial duties in an unconventional manner. In 1896, she wrote to Herman Bang: "I believe that a person, regardless of her position, should be herself."

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Hélène of Orléans, Duchess of Aosta (from top to bottom) -

1887 Hélène, Duchess of Aosta (nee Princess d'Orléans) by Byrne Photo. From Wikimedia 695X1024.

Woman, possibly Elena d'Aosta. From bnnonline.it/index.php?it/337/il-ritratto-a-napoli-tra-ottocento-e-secolo-breve-il-fondo-piccirilli-e-larchivio-parisio; removed mono-color tint 619X939.

Princess Hèléne d'Aosta by ?. From delagoabayworld.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/helene_dorleans-aosta; fixed spots w Pshop 376X591.

Helene d'Orleans en Amazon. Posted to Foro Dinastias by Minnie on 5 June 2011; removed mono-color tint 295X691.

Presumed to be princesse Hélène d'Orléans by Lionel-Noël Royer (location ?). From tumblr.com/blog/view/mariaslozak/189168210128; enlarged to fit screen 994X1400 @72 266kj.

1890s Helene of Orléans, Duchess of Aosta by ?. From Wikimedia 549X800.

Helene of Orleans Duchess of Aosta. From antique-royals.tumblr.com/tagged/vintage 871X1300.

1890s Helene, Duchess of Aosta by ?. From upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/Helene,_Duchess_of_Aosta 716X1015.

Helene of Orléans, Duchess of Aosta From antique-royals.tumblr.com-post-112468981883-helene-of-orleans-duchess-of-aosta left image; fixed spots w Pshop & removed mono-color tint 1643X1131.

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