Biography

Louis-Philippe Albert became heir to King Louis-Philippe after his father, Ferdinand, died in 1842. After this event the title of Count de Paris was created for him. He was exiled to England in 1848 due to the Revolution of 1848. From 1861-1862 he volunteered in the American Civil War with his brother Robert, Duke de Chartre, under General George B. McClellan. In 1864 he married Isabelle d'Orleans-Montpensier, his cousin. He returned to France as a private person in 1870 after the downfall of Napoleon III. After 1875 the diplomatic agreement between the Legitimists and the Orleanists broke down and he was acknowledged as heir by most Legitimists. However, his daughters marriage into the Portuguese royal family and its popularity led the French republican government to expel the heads of all of the former sovereign houses of France, so he returned to England.