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 Henri d'Orléans, The Count of Paris and Duchess Therese of Württemberg {Source}. She had the following siblings, siblings-in-law, and nieces and nephews {Source}:
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, especially 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 Marie Isabelle is a godmother to Infanta Maria Francisca of Portugal and Princess Thérèse d'Orléans. Through her husband, she is distantly related to Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein
- Prince François Henri Louis Marie d'Orléans, The Count of Clermont (1961-2017)
- Princess Blanche Elisabeth Rose Marie d'Orléans (1963)
- Prince Jean Charles Pierre Marie d'Orléans, The Duke of Vendôme (1965)
- Philomena de Tornos y Steinhart (m. 2009)
- Prince Gaston Louis Antoine Marie d'Orléans (2009)
- Princess Antoinette Léopoldine Jeanne Marie d'Orléans (2012)
- Princess Louise-Marguerite Eléonore Marie d'Orléans (2014)
- Prince Joseph Gabriel David Marie d'Orléans (2016)
- Princess Jacinthe Élisabeth-Charlotte Marie d'Orleans (2018)
- Prince Eudes Thibaut Joseph Marie d'Orléans, The Duke of Angoulême (1968)
- Marie-Liesse de Rohan-Chabot (1969, m. 1999)
- Princess Thérèse Isabelle Marie Éléonore d'Orléans (2001)
- Prince Pierre Jean Marie d'Orléans (2003)
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, especially 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 Princess Thérèse d'Orléans. Through her husband, she is distantly related to Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein
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