Princess Marguerite Adélaïde Marie of Orléans, French: Marguerite d'Orléans, Polish: Małgorzata Orleańska, (16 February 1846 – 24 October 1893[1]) was a member of the House of Orléans and a Princess of France by birth. Through her marriage to Prince Władysław Czartoryski, Marguerite was a princess of the House of Czartoryski by marriage.
Early life
Princess Marguerite Adélaïde Czartoryska, early 1870s
In 1865, Marguerite became romantically involved with her first cousin, Louis of Orléans, Prince of Condé, but the young man's premature death the following year put an end to their plans.[4]
Prince Witold Kazimierz Czartoryski (10 March 1876 – 29 October 1911); unmarried, died in Versailles
Death
The death of Princess Marguerite, seems to have occurred, the St James's Gazette observes, under painful circumstances. For some years she had been suffering from tuberculosis, and had ceased to play a part in the society of the Faubourg, of which she was once so bright an ornament, devoting all her remaining strength to the care of her two children, Princes Adam and Withold.
The winter and spring of 1893, which she passed at San Remo, the she had made terrible progress, and a fortnight before she was brought from the sanatorium near Frankfurt, where the summer was spent, to the Hôtel Lambert, her Paris home, in a well-nigh hopeless state.
She rallied, however, and on Tuesday, at the usual dinner-hour, she was able to take some nourishment, looking forward to congratulating her father, Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours, the next day on the eightieth anniversary of his birth.
An hour later a fatal crisis came on, and at nine o'clock she breathed her last in the arms of her devoted husband and in the presence of her sons. The Duke of Nemours, who was sent for at once, arrived too late to take a last farewell of his child, and the Duc de Chartres, the Duke of Aumale, the Prince de Joinville, the Duc and Duchess d'Alençon, and the Comte and Comtesse d'Eu did not reach the house of morning.[6]
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