Thursday, July 15, 2010

The Duke of Orleans is engaged

July 15, 1896

Prince Louis Philippe Robert, Duke of Orleans, son of the late Count of Paris, and head of the royal house of France, celebrated his engagement today with a formal betrothal at Alesuth castle in Hungary. His fiancee is Archduchess Maria-Dorothea, daughter of Archduke Joseph of Austria. The Duke of Orleans is twenty-seven years old and his bride-to-be is twenty-nine, according to the New York Times' dispatch from Vienna.

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