Hortense de Beauharnais | |
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Duchess of Saint-Leu | |
Queen consort of Holland | |
Tenure | 5 June 1806 – 1 July 1810 |
Born | 10 April 1783 Paris, France |
Died | 5 October 1837 (aged 54) Arenenberg, Thurgau, Switzerland |
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House | Beauharnais |
Father | Alexandre de Beauharnais |
Mother | Joséphine Tascher de la Pagerie |
Royal styles of Queen Hortense of Holland | |
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Reference style | Her Majesty |
Spoken style | Your 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 consort of Holland. 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 Bonaparte, who had been made King of Holland, making her her stepfather’s sister-in-law. She was the mother of Napoléon III, Emperor of the French; Louis II of Holland; and Napoléon Louis Charles Bonaparte who died at the age of four. She also had an illegitimate son, Charles, Duke of Morny, with her lover, the Comte de Flahaut.