Hortense de Beauharnais
Hortense Eugénie Cécile Bonaparte (; , ; 10 April 1783 – 5 October 1837) was Queen consort of
Holland. She was the stepdaughter of Emperor
Napoléon I as the daughter of his first wife,
Joséphine de Beauharnais. Hortense later married Napoléon I’s brother,
Louis Bonaparte, who had been made
King of Holland, making her her stepfather’s sister-in-law. She was the mother of
Napoléon III,
Emperor of the French; Louis II of Holland; and Napoléon Louis Charles Bonaparte who died at the age of four. She also had an illegitimate son,
Charles, Duke of Morny, with her lover, the
Comte de Flahaut.
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