Royal Profile: Princess Marie Isabelle d'Orléans, Princess of Liechtenstein

Princess Marie Isabelle Marguerite Anne Geneviève d'Orléans, Princess of Liechtenstein was born 3 January 1959 as the eldest daughter of Prince Henrid'Orléans, The Count of Paris and Duchess Therese of Württemberg {Source}. She had the following siblings, siblings-in-law, and nieces and nephews {Source}:

1. Prince François Henri Louis Marie d'Orléans, The Count of Clermont (1961-2017)
2. Princess Blanche Elisabeth Rose Marie d'Orléans (1963)
3. Prince Jean Charles Pierre Marie d'Orléans, The Duke of Vendôme (1965)
1. Philomena de Tornos y Steinhart (m. 2009)
1. Prince Gaston Louis Antoine Marie d'Orléans (2009)
2. Princess Antoinette Léopoldine Jeanne Marie d'Orléans (2012)
3. Princess Louise-Marguerite Eléonore Marie d'Orléans (2014)
4. Prince Joseph Gabriel David Marie d'Orléans (2016)
4. Prince Eudes Thibaut Joseph Marie d'Orléans, The Duke of Angoulême (1968)
1. Marie-Liesse de Rohan-Chabot (1969, m. 1999)
1. Princess Thérèse Isabelle Marie Éléonore d'Orléans (2001)
2. Prince Pierre Jean Marie d'Orléans (2003)

She spent her early years in Paris, while her father worked as a member of the French Foreign Legion at the Secretariat-General for National Defence until 1962 {Source}. In 1962, her family moved to Germany and then shortly after to Corsica until 1967{Source}. In 1967, the family returned to France with a third child in tow, Princess Blanche. 

The young princess was educated in France. For several months, she attended a private day school in Paris, before being sent to Cours Dupanloup in Boulogne-sur-Seine in 1968 and then to Sacré-Coeur de Saint-Maur the next year{Source}. When the young princess became a teenager, she boarded at a Dominican establishment in fribourg while her father managed  public relations for a Swiss investement Firm in Geneva{Source}. When she obtained her bac, she continuted her education at the Institut Catholique de Paris, obtaining a language interpretation degree in German and English, and completed the  Institut Supérieur d'Interprétariat et de Traductioncurriculum{Source}.She also earned a professional degree through the Franco-German and Franco-English Chambers of Commerce, as well as a DEUG in German{Source}.

Princess Marie also is known for her extensive charity work, espeically working with children with special needs, like her siblings Prince François d'Orléans, The Count of Clermont & Princess Blanche d'Orléans. In the early 1980s, she spent several months in Brazil, working with needed children  in Brazilian favelas through a Foi et Lumiere program{Source}. Upon returning to Paris, she began working as a Catholic periodical{Source}. In the mid-1980s, she moved to Switzerland, where she began organizing the organization,  Enfants et Jeunes de la rue ("Street kids") program, which conducts outreach in countries like Brazil and Columbia{Source}. She eventually ended up returning to Paris, where she works as the head of the Comission on Special Medical-Pedagogical Services, which sponsors humanitarian conferences in Europe and developing countries{Source}. 

In the spring of 1988, she attended a conference in Brazil, and attended a dinner hosted by Princess Isabelle of Brazil (1944), where she was introduced to their mutual cousin,Prince Gundakar of Liechtenstein{Source}. They would reconnect that November, during the wedding of their mutual cousins, Duchess Mathilde of Württemberg and Hereditary Count Erich von Waldburg-Zeil{Source}. On 11 February 1989, the couple met with her grandfather, The Count of Paris, and shortly after their engagement was announced to the media{Source}. The wedding was set to take place in the upcoming summer. Together, they have five children{Source}

• Princess Léopoldine Eléonore Thérèse Marie of Liechtenstein (1990)
• Princess Marie Immaculata Elisabeth Rose Aldegunde of Liechtenstein (1991)
• Prince Johann Wenzel Karl Emmeran Bonifatius Maria of Liechtenstein (1993)
• Princess Margarete Franciska Daria Wilhelmine Marie of Liechtenstein (1995)
• Prince Gabriel Karl Bonaventura Alfred Valerian Maria of Liechtenstein (1998)

Princess Marie Isabelle is a godmother to Infanta Maria Francisca of Portugal and to Princess Thérèse d'Orléans. Through her husband, she is distantly related to Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein