Hortense de Beauharnais

Hortense de Beauharnais
Duchess of Saint-Leu
Queen Hortense with her second son, Prince Napoléon Louis. Portrait by François Gérard, 1807
Queen consort of Holland
Tenure5 June 1806 – 1 July 1810
Born10 April 1783
Paris, France
Died5 October 1837 (aged 54)
Arenenberg, Thurgau, Switzerland
Burial
St Pierre-St Paul Church,
Rueil-Malmaison, France
Spouse
(m. 1802)
Issue
HouseBeauharnais
FatherAlexandre de Beauharnais
MotherJoséphine Tascher de la Pagerie
Royal styles of
Queen Hortense of Holland
Reference styleHer Majesty
Spoken styleYour Majesty

Hortense Eugénie Cécile Bonaparte (French pronunciation: [ɔʁtɑ̃s øʒeni sesil bɔnapaʁt]; née de Beauharnais, pronounced [də boaʁnɛ]; 10 April 1783 – 5 October 1837) was Queen of Holland as the wife of King Louis Bonaparte. She was the stepdaughter of Emperor Napoléon I as the daughter of his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais. Hortense later married Napoléon I's brother, Louis, making her Napoleon's sister-in-law. She became queen consort of Holland when Louis was made King of Holland in 1806. She and Louis had three sons: Napoléon-Charles Bonaparte; Napoleon III, Emperor of the French; and Louis II of Holland. She also had an illegitimate son, Charles, Duke of Morny, with her lover, the Comte de Flahaut.