Queen Hortense with her second son, Prince Napoléon Louis. Portrait by François Gérard, 1807
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
Burial
St Pierre-St Paul Church, Rueil-Malmaison, France
Spouse
Louis Bonaparte
(m. 1802)
Issue
Napoléon-Charles
Napoléon-Louis
Napoleon III
Charles, Duke of Morny (ill.)
House
Beauharnais
Father
Alexandre de Beauharnais
Mother
Joséphine Tascher de la Pagerie
Royal styles of Queen Hortense of Holland
Reference style
Her Majesty
Spoken style
Your Majesty
Hortense Eugénie Cécile Bonaparte (French pronunciation:[ɔʁtɑ̃søʒenisesilbɔnapaʁt]; née de Beauharnais, pronounced[dəboaʁnɛ]; 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.
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