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Marie Josephine Louise of Savoy (
2 September,
1753 -
13 November,
1810), titular
Queen consort of
France, wife of
Louis XVIII of France, princess of
Sardinia and of
Piedmont, was born in
Turin and died at
Hartwell House, English residence of the exiled French Royal family.
Maria Giuseppina Luigia, as she's called in Italian, was the third child and second daughter of
Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia and his Queen consort
Maria Antonieta Fernanda of Bourbon,
Infanta of
Spain.
Her paternal grandparents were
Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia and his wife
Polyxena Christina of Hesse-Rotenburg. Polixena was a daughter of
Ernest Leopold, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg.
Her maternal grandparents were
Philip V of Spain and his second wife,
Elizabeth Farnese.
Her sister,
Maria Teresa, married
Charles X of France, Marie Josephine's brother-in-law.
She was also a cousin of the ill-fated
Princesse de Lamballe who was instrumental in the arrangement of the marriage.
De jure Queen of France
Marie Josèphe de Savoie, as this princess is known to French history, married Louis Stanislas Xavier de Bourbon, Count of Provence, the future
Louis XVIII on
16 April,
1771 and went with him into exile in the
Kingdom of Great Britain in
1791.
There were no children of the marriage. She became pregnant in
1774 and
1781, but both pregnancies ended in miscarriages.
Louis XVII of France, only surviving son of
Louis XVI of France and
Marie Antoinette, died while imprisoned in the
Temple on
8 June,
1795. The Count of Provence was proclaimed King of France as Louis XVIII (
16 June,
1795) by the exiled French Court. Thus Marie Josèphe became
de jure Queen consort of France. During the exile, Marie Josèphe and her husband were constantly fighting, especially over her possible lesbian relationship with one of her ladies-in-waiting. As a result, the two were frequently separated.
Death and Burial
Queen Marie-Josèphe died at Hartwell House but was buried at the Cathedral of
Cagliari, capital of
Sardinia. There her brother, King
Charles Felix of Sardinia, had an imposing monument erected over her grave, whereon she's described personally as "sapiens, prudens, pientissima" and as "
Galliarum Regina", literally "Queen of the Gauls", for example of France .
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