#Isabella of Bourbon-Parma

[thediamondarcher]

"queer people didn't exist in the 18th century, and especially not in the royal families" ...

Isabella of Bourbon-Parma

married to Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor in 1760 to 1763 while simultaneously being in an affair with his sister until her own death in '63 Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen. quotes of various letters she dedicated to her lover:

“I am told that the day begins with God. I, however, begin the day by thinking of the object of my love, for I think of her incessantly.”

“My consolation, I am madly in love with you, virtuously or diabolically, I love you and I will love you to the grave.”

#lesbian #queer history #Isabella of Bourbon-Parma #isabella of parma #and btw her husband and lover were both siblings of Marie Antoinette #i actually love her even tho i just found put about her but i already know I'm going to be obsessed with her #history #queer #wlw #wlw history

[tiny-librarian]

Louise Elisabeth of France with her eldest daughter, Isabella of Parma.

#louise elisabeth of france #isabella of parma #house of bourbon #house of bourbon parma #18th century #18th century art #long live the queue

[onheirpodcast]

Some of the historical royals who have been described as being LGBTQ+ over the centuries: Queen Anne, Frederick the Great,  King Edward II, Isabella of Bourbon-Parma, Queen Christina of Sweden, and King James VI of Scotland and I of England.

In our most recent episode we touch on some of these examples and discuss the challenges of aligning modern understandings of gender and sexuality with the social norms of the past. You can listen here. 

#historical royals #episode 27 #queen christina #king james vi #king james i #isabella of bourbon parma #king edward ii #frederick the great #queen anne

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

florence + the machine lyrics x colors x textiles in art — yellow/gold

Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) – Lungs // Portrait of Princess Maria Clementina Sobieska – William Mosman 👑 Only If For a Night – Ceremonials // Isabelle de Bourbon, Infanta of Parma – Jean-Marc Nattier 👑 Over the Love – Over the Love // Portrait of Archduchess Maria Maddalena of Austria – Frans Pourbus the Younger 👑 Over the Love – Over the Love // Portrait of Isabella Charlotte of Nassau-Dietz as Flora – Lancelot Volders 👑 King – Dance Fever // Portrait of Konstancja Krystyna Wielopolska – Pierre Mignard I 👑 Girls Against God – Dance Fever // Portrait of Barbara of Portugal, Queen of Spain – Jean Ranc 👑 Heaven Is Here – Dance Fever // Princess Louisa Maria Teresa Stuart – Alexis Simon Belle

#florence + the machine lyrics x colors x textiles in art #rabbit heart #lungs #lungs album #only if for a night #ceremonials #over the love #king #king florence #girls against god #heaven is here #dance fever #florence + the machine #florence and the machine #fatm #gold #yellow #art #art history #lyrics #lyric art

[my18thcenturysource]

"The Family of Philip, Duke of Parma", 1755, Guiseppe Baldrighi, Galleria Nazionale, Parma.

Felipe de Borbón y Farnesio was the Duke of Parma from 1748 to 1765, and also the subject of one of my favourite portraits of the whole 18th century (from a set of 3, I will post those another time). The second son of King Philip V of Spain and Elisabeth Farnese, he became the Duke of Parma, that had been ruled by his mother's family for generations, via the Teatry of Aux-la-Chapelle in 1748, founding the House of Bourbon-Parma.

In this portrait we can see Philip sitting next to his wife Louise Elisabeth of France, the eldest daughter of Louis XV of France. They didn't have happy marriage, and she died of smallpox in 1759 at 32 years old.

Standing behind them there's their daughter Isabella of Parma, here wearing a lilac robe de cour, she would later marry Marie Antoinette's older brother, Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II, and would become very close (some people think that suspiciously close) to her sister in law Maria Christina. She died of smallpox after a difficult birth followed closely by two miscarriages at the age of 21.

At the front there are the Ferdinand (later Duke of Parma) and Maria Luisa (future wife of Charles IV and then Queen of Spain, yeah her cousin because of course).

At the front there's Ferdinand and Maria Luisa (aren't they the CUTEST?!). Both of them were born in 1751, and she's keeping his toy sword away from him, playing and pissing him off, like all siblings should. Ferdinand would become the Duke of Parma in 1765 at 14 years old and be later married to his bother in law's sister Maria Amalia of Austria. In 1801 he ceded the Duchy of Parma to France in the Treaty of Aranjuez.

Maria Luisa of Parma would become the Queen of Spain since she married Charles, then Prince of Asturias in 1765. He was mainly interested in hunting and mechanics and she in state affairs, so she became an influential and dominant figure in court. If this telenovela is not already sad enough for you, her father died unexpectedly in 1765 in Alessandria after having accompanied her to sail for Spain to be married to the Infante Charles.

There's also the profile figure of Marie Catherine de Bassecourt y Thieulaine the children's governess. She was a maid of honour of Phiilip's mother Elisabeth Farnese, and she joined Maria Luisa when she went to Spain and remained in the Spanish court since then. In 1765 Philip gave her the title of Marchese of Borghetto, thanking her services and merits.

And finally, some pets and music. Didn't find anything about the dog nor the bird BUT I love them both. Especially the super fancy collar.

#1750s #1755 #italy #spain #parma #duke of parma #guiseppe baldrighi #philip duke of parma #menswear #womenswear #spanish nobility #portrait #family portrait #art #18th century art

[gogmstuff]

It’s 1765 -

Top:  1765 Louise Elisabeth of France and Parma by Louis-Michel van Loo (Galleria Nazionale - Parma, Emilia Romagna, Italy). From Wikimedia; fixed spots w Pshop & enlarged by half 933X1281 @75 952kj.

Second row left:  1765 Countess of Clanwilliam (Miss Hawkins-Magill), of Gill Hall, Dromore, by Sir Joshua Reynolds (National Museum of Northern Ireland - Belfast, UK). From Wikimedia; enlarged by half 954X1200 @72 221kj.

Second row right:  1765 Isabella, Countess of Hertford by Alexander Roslin (Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow - Glasgow, Lanarkshire, UK). From Wikimedia; enlarged by half.

Third row:  1765 Queen Charlotte with her two eldest sons by Johann Zoffany (Royal Collection) From bbs.voc.com.cn/viewthread.php?action=printable&tid=6727916 1800X1566 @72 453kj.

Fourth row left:  1765 Maria Louise of Bourbon-Parma by Giuseppe Baldrighi (auctioned by Sotheby's) From triinochka.ru/post396110573/ 1700X2000 @180 1.4Mj.

Fourth row right:  1765 Lady said to be Mademoiselle Dore, Princess of Liechtenstein by François-Hubert Drouais (location ?) From karoline-von-manderscheid.tumblr.com/post/72790851401/françois-hubert-drouais-1727-1775-portrait-of 667X802 @96 351kj.

Fifth row:  1765 Elisabeth Tscharner, née von Wattenwijl by Johann Nikolaus Grooth (auctioned by Dorotheum). From the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/dorotheum/catalogue-id-doroth10000/lot-d5360e56-db04-4b46-9a3d-a5db010eb57b 2072X2594 @144 6.8Mp.

Sixth row left:  1765 Elisabeth Christine Ulrike von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, Prinzessin von Preußen by Johann Georg Ziesenis (Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten - Berlin, Germany). From Wikimedia.

Sixth row right:  1765 Emily, Countess of Kildare by Allan Ramsay (Walker Art Gallery - Liverpool, Lancashire, UK)  photo - Mike Peel. From Wikimedia; increased both contrast and temperature about 10% 2470X3047 @72 2.7Mj.

#1765 fashion #Louis XV fashion #Rococo fashion #Georgian fashion #Louise Elisabeth of France #Louis-Michel van Loo #Countess of Clanwilliam #Joshua Reynolds #Queen Charlotte #Johann Zoffany #Maria Luisa of Parma #Giuseppe Baldrighi #Mademoiselle Dore #François-Hubert Drouais #Elisabeth Tscharner. #Johann Nikolaus Grooth #Elisabeth Christine Ulrike von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel #Johann Georg Ziesenis #Countess of Kildare #Allan Ramsay

[a-dance-to-the-music-of-time]

The family of Robert I, Duke of Parma. From left to right, first row: Immacolata, Antonia, Isabella, Duke Robert, Henrietta, Luigi, Gaetano, Duchess Maria Antonia, Renato, Zita (sitting on the far right). From left to right, second row: Francesca, Pia, Luisa, Adelaide, Teresa, Joseph, Xavier, Henry, Sixtus, Felix. Villa Pianore, 1906.

(via Zita of Bourbon-Parma - Wikipedia)

[princessvictoriamelita]

The twelve children of Robert, Duke of Parma by his second wife, Infanta Maria of Portugal, Duchess of Parma, c. 1906.

Back row: Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma, Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma, Princess Francesca of Bourbon-Parma and Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma.

Front row: Prince Louis of Bourbon-Parma, Princess Maria Antonia of Bourbon-Parma, Princess Henrietta Anna of Bourbon-Parma, Princess Maria della Neve Adelaide of Bourbon-Parma, little Prince Gaetano of Bourbon-Parma, Princess Isabella of Bourbon-Parma, Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma and Prince René of Bourbon-Parma.

#Princess Maria della Neve Adelaide of bourbon-parma #prince sixtus of bourbon-parma #prince xavier of bourbon-parma #duke xavier of parma #princess francesca of bourbon-parma #princess zita of bourbon-parma #prince felix of bourbon-parma #prince rené of bourbon-parma #princess maria antonia of bourbon-parma #princess isabella of bourbon-parma #prince louis of bourbon-parma #princess henrietta anna of bourbon-parma #prince gaetano of bourbon-parma #bourbon-parma #italian royal #italian royalty #1906 #1900s

[isabellaofparma]

Dead before having gotten the chance to celebrate her twenty second birthday, Isabella of Bourbon-Parma has been asleep for more than two centuries, forgotten by history. For lack of political impact, and mainly for not having her writings published, collective memory still doesn’t acknowledge the existence of this outstanding woman, even though she’s part of a small group of true intellectuals from that era and part of the very closed off club of philosophical princesses. Contrary to most princesses from her time and blood, she had a sharp mind, stirred up by a wild curiosity and an encyclopedic knowledge. When we are lucky enough to read one of her treaties, we are astounded by the maturity and modernity of her thinking. This young woman showed free-thinking which seemed to have sheltered her from prejudices of the time and environment. But the fairies that watched over her crib could not defeat the Evil Witches. One was called Heredity, the other, Melancholy. Because no matter what nature gifted her with, a young princess of the 18th century, twice the heir of Bourbons, does not choose her destiny. Isabella, like the others, was the object of familial ambitions and political demands. Even though she showed nothing but obedience in the public eye, she nonetheless kept a harrowing clear-headedness and a sort of liberty no one could have guessed.

(Élisabeth Badinter in Lettres de Isabelle de Bourbon-Parme à l’archiduchesse Marie-Christine 1760-1763.)

#perioddramaedit #historyedit #isabella of parma #house of bourbon

[venicepearl]

Princess Isabella of Parma

#Isabella of Parma #House Bourbon-Parma #xviii century #people #portrait #paintings #art #arte

[drosera-nepenthes]

The intrigues of Don Carlos did much to render the life of the Queen Regent of Spain uneasy. Before her marriage she won terms of intimate friendship with him, his mother, an Arch-Duchess of Austria-Este-Modena, having been a sister of her mother's first husband.

The Duke of Madrid is said to have been very much enraged when he heard of the betrothal of the Arch-Duchess Marie-Christine to King Alphonso XII of Spain, his hated rival. He was on terms of enmity with Queen Christine during her Regency, and redoubled his efforts to secure the throne of Spain for himself and his descendants.

The whole quarrel about the Spanish succession arose from the fact that the father of the ex-Queen Isabella altered the line of succession for the sake of his daughter (he had no son); and by putting an end to the Salic Law, which up to that time had held good in Spain, he placed his eldest daughter on the throne in the place of his brother, who would have otherwise succeeded him. Don Carlos is descended from this brother, and he carries on the feud, and is considered by quite half the population of Spain to be their rightful king. Even of those, however, who regard his cause as just, many do not wish to upset the present dynasty.

His Royal Highness was married for the first time to the Princess Margareta of Bourbon-Parma, by whom he had one son and four daughters. His present wife, the Princess Bertha Rohan, is not of equal birth with him; and though she bears the title of Duchess of Madrid, it is not likely that she would ever be received as Queen of Spain should her husband succeed in his efforts.

The daughters of the Duke are all married except the unfortunate Princess Elvira whose sad story is well known. Her fate is surrounded by mystery. Some people blame her, and others say that the friendship is purely platonic on both sides.

Don Jaime de Bourbon, the only son of the Duke, holds a commission in the Russian Army, and went lately with the troops to China. There he, however, fell ill with typhus, and had to return home invalided without having seen much active service.

- Lady’s Realm, 1902

#Don Carlos #carlist pretenders #spanish royal family #1900s #magazine article

[tiny-librarian]

Pastel drawing of a girl reading, done by Isabella of Parma.

Source

#isabella of parma #18th century #18th century art #house of bourbon parma #pastel drawing #long live the queue

[inky-duchess]

We’re there any royals/people of importance in government history that married someone of the same sex? Happy pride!

Not marry but there have been loads of LGBTQI+ Royals!

Philippe, Duke of Orleans

Richard I

Edward II

Ying Shao

James VI & I

William Rufus/ William II

Juilus Caesar

Philip II of France

Hyegong of Silla

Felix Yuspov

Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany

Emperor Elagabalus

Lord Ivar Mountbatten

Princess Isabella of Bourbon-Parma

Archduchess Maria Christina

Anne I

Emperor Tongzhi

Charles, King of Württemberg

Fredrick the Great

Emperor Hadrian

Emperor Galba

Emperor Nero

Mark Antony

Emperor Ai of Han

#Ask answered

[thearrangment-phff]

Granddaughters of King Henry IX and Queen Isabella

Daughters of Charles, Prince of Wales

Charlotte, Queen Elizabeth III of the United Kingdom

Mary, Princess of the United Kingdom, Princess of Ligne, Princess of Mountbatten-Windsor

Daughters of Albert, Tsar Alexander IV of Russia

Alexandra, Grand Duchess of Russia, Crown Princess of Norway, Princess Imperial of Russia, Princess of the United Kingdom, Princess of Mountbatten-Windsor

Nadia, Grand Duchess of Russia, Princess of the United Kingdom, Princess of Orleans, Princess of Mountbatten-Windsor

Irina, Grand Duchess of Russia, Crown Princess of Sweden, Princess of the United Kingdom, Princess of Mountbatten-Windsor

Xenia, Grand Duchess of Russia, Crown Princess of Denmark, Princess of the United Kingdom, Princess of Mountbatten-Windsor, Countess of Monpezat

Daughters of Mary-Astrid, Princess Royal

Ingeborg, Princess of Sweden, Duchess of Västmanland, Princess Bernadotte

Dagmar, Princess of Sweden, Duchess of Småland, Princess of Romania

Daughters of Princess Elisabeth

Marie-Valerie, Princess of Liechtenstein, Countess de Limburg Stirum

Marie-Beatrix, Princess of Liechtenstein, Princess of Nassau

Daughter of Princess Alice

Margaretha, Princess of Nassau, Princess of Bourbon-Parma, Princess of Liege

Yolande, Princess of Nassau, Princess of Bourbon-Parma, Countess de Lannoy

Daughters of Robert, Duke of Sussex

Maria-Christina, Princess of Sussex, Princess of the United Kingdom, Princess of Mountbatten Windsor, Princess of Monaco

Maria-Carolina, Princess of Sussex, Princess of the United Kingdom, Princess of Belgium, Princess of Mountbatten Windsor

Maria-Antonia, Archduchess of Austria, Princess of Sussex, Princess of the United Kingdom, Princess of Mountbatten Windsor

Maria-Anna, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, Princess of Sussex, Princess of the United Kingdom, Princess of Mountbatten Windsor

Daughters of Nicholas, Duke of Clarence

Joanna, Princess of Clarence, Princess of Mountbatten-Windsor, Countess de Limburg Stirum

Gabriella, Princess of Clarence, Princess of Belgium, Princess of Mountbatten-Windsor

Sophia, The Princess of Monaco, Princess of Clarence, Princess of Mountbatten-Windsor

Daughter of Joseph, Duke of Suffolk

Stephanie, Princess of Suffolk, Princess of Nassau, Princess of Bourbon-Parma

Daughters of Michael, Duke of Kendal

Anastasia, Princess of Kendal, Princess of Denmark, Countess of Monpezat

Victoria, Princess of Kendal, Princess of Romnia

Isabella, The Queen of Spain

Augusta, Princess of Kendal, Countess of Monpezat

#Granddaughters

[vivelareine]

A portrait of Isabella de Bourbon-Parma (1741-1763) by Louis Michel Van Loo, 18th century. [credit: chez Tajan, via auction.fr]

#18th century #18th century paintings #isabella of parma #paintings #art

[opera-in-tre-atti]

La Duchessa di Parma e Piacenza, Luisa Elisabetta di Francia, e sua figlia, Principessa Isabella di Parma. 1750  Jean-Marc Nattier

The Duchess of Parma and Piacenza, Louise Elisabeth of France, and her daughter, Princess Isabelle of Parma. 1750  Jean-Marc Nattier

Nattier succeeded as a fashionable portrait painter by naturally posing his sitters within a formal baroque composition. These skills helped the artist to obtain several commissions for portraits of Louis XV and his family. Nattier painted this portrait of the eldest daughter of Louis XV and her daughter while the duchess visited her father at Fontainebleau so he could meet young Isabelle. The duchess, née Louise Elizabeth, married the Infante Felipe, a Spanish Bourbon. Known until then as Madame Infante, in 1748 she persuaded her father to make her husband the duke of Parma.