LOUIS PHILIPPE

He became the Prince Royal, heir-apparent to the throne, when his father, Prince Ferdinand-Philippe, died in a carriage accident in 1842. He became King in 1848. His wife was the daughter of Infanta Luisa Fernanda of Spain and Prince Antoine, Duke of Montpensier (1824–1890), the youngest son of Louis-Philippe of France and Marie Amalie of the Two Sicilies. They had eight children. In 1873, anticipating a restoration of the monarchy by the largely monarchist National Assembly that had been elected following the fall of Napoleon III, the Count of Paris withdrew his claims to the French throne in favour of the legitimist claimant, Henri V, best known as the Comte de Chambord. In fact he died childless so the Count of Paris was recognized by most monarchists as Philippe VII of France. Louis Philippe died at Sheen House in Surrey in 1894.From the collection of Grand Duke Kyril & Victoria Melita.John Jabez Edwin Paisley MAYALL (1813 -1901) was an English photographer who in 1860 took the first carte-de-visite photographs of Queen Victoria.