Philippe d'Orléans

Independent activity Monarchy and royalism 1838–1894 ○ Natural causes

Louis Philippe's grandson, whom the Orleanists tried and failed to make king in February 1848, and their claimant for the rest of his life

Born in Paris in 1838 to the Duke of Orléans, Louis Philippe's eldest son, and Hélène, he became heir apparent on his father's death in 1842. On the day of his grandfather's abdication in February 1848 there was an effort to make him king with his mother as regent; it failed, the family fled, and from then on he was the Orleanist claimant. In the American Civil War he served in 1861–1862 as a Union captain on McClellan's staff, and later wrote a standard History of the Civil War in America. In 1873, expecting a restoration, he withdrew his claim in favour of the Count of Chambord, and on Chambord's death in 1883 most monarchists recognised him as Philippe VII. Exiled again in 1886, he died in England in 1894.

Also known as: Comte de Paris · Prince Philippe, Count of Paris · Louis Philippe Albert d'Orléans · Philippe VII