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María Luísa Fernanda of Spain (30 January 1832 - 2 February 1897) was Infanta of Spain and Duchess of Montpensier. She was the youngest daughter of king
Ferdinand VII of Spain and his fourth wife
Maria Christina of Sicily, the queen-regent, who was also his niece.
When her elder sister
Isabella II of Spain succeeded to the throne, Infanta Luisa Fernanda was
heiress-presumptive to the crown between 1833 and 1851, when Isabella's oldest surviving daughter was born.
Isabella had been engaged to their first cousin
Francis of Spain, who was known to be homosexual and rumored impotent. Their kinsman, king
Louis Philippe of France calculated that no children will be born from Isabella's marriage, and planned the crown of Spain to eventually devolve to his own grandchildren. For this purpose, Luisa Fernanda was engaged to
Antoine, Duke of Montpensier (1824-90), the youngest son of king Louis Philippe, who also was Luisa's mother's first cousin.
Luisa Fernanda, all 14 years old, and Duke Antoine, 22, had their nuptials on 10 October 1846 as a double wedding with Isabella and Francis', and young Antoine was elevated to be an
Infante of Spain. The couple moved to Paris and later to Sevilla.
The relationship between Isabella and her sister was tense, due to Antoine's conspiracies against the queen.
Antoine's father was deposed in 1848. The same year, the then 16-year-old Luisa Fernanda gave birth to her first child. When Isabella's eldest children, born in 1850, soon died, Luisa's premier position returned, until finally a second child, Isabella, born in 1851, survived. Eventually queen Isabella was succeeded by her surviving son
Alfonso XII of Spain.
After Isabella's was deposed, the family had to exile. Luisa returned to Sevilla years later, already widowed, when she died.
- Infanta Maria Isabel (1848-1919), who married her first cousin Philippe, comte de Paris (1838-94), the French claimant, and became known as Marie Isabelle, comtesse de Paris. She had several children.
- Infanta Maria Amelia (1851-70).
- Infanta Maria Cristina (1852-79). After her younger sister Mercedes died, she was engaged to Alfonso XII, five years her junior, but she died before the wedding.
- infanta Maria de la Regla (1856-61).
- Infante Fernando (1859-73).
- Infanta Maria de las Mercedes (1860-78), otherwise Princess Marie des Graces d'Orleans-Montpensier, who married her first cousin Alfonso XII and is historically known as Mercedes of Orleans, queen of Spain. No children.
- Infante Felipe Raimundo Maria (1862-64)
- Infante Antonio (1866-1930), became Duke of Galliera in Italy. He married his first cousin Infanta Maria Eulalia of Spain (1864-1958), daughter of Isabella II, and had two sons:
- Infante Luis Maria Felipe Antonio (1867-74)
Descendants
Of all her children, just Marie Isabelle de Paris and Antonio di Galliera left issue. Through Antonio, the now non-royal line of dukes of Galliera continues. Alfonso's grandchildren lost royal status because of non-dynastic marriages. The current Duke di Galliera is Alfonso's great-grandson, Don Alfonso Francesco de Orléans-Borbón y Ferarra-Pignatelli.
Through Marie Isabelle, she became great-grandmother of king
Manuel II of Portugal,
Luís Filipe, Duke of Braganza, Dukes
Amedeo II of Aosta and
Aimone of Spoleto, Princess
Dolores Czartoryski, princess
Esperanza of Orleans-Braganza,
Countess Mercedes of Barcelona (
king Juan Carlos' mother), and
Henri, comte de Paris.
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