Charles-Louis Henri Foulques Benoît Elzéar Jean Marie d'Orléans, Petit-Fils de France, duc de Chartres

Chartres

Chartres is a commune and capital of the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France. It is located southwest of Paris.-Geography:Chartres is built on the left bank of the Eure River, on a hill crowned by its famous cathedral, the spires of which are a landmark in the surrounding country...

 was born on 28 July 1972. He is the son of Jacques Jean Yaroslaw Marie d'Orléans, Prince de France and Gersende de Sabran-Pontèves. His paternal grandfather was the late Henri, Count of Paris

Henri, comte de Paris

Henri of Orléans, Count of Paris , was the Orléanist claimant to the throne of France from 1940 until his death.-Early life:...

 who was the Orleanist claimant to the French Throne

Throne

A throne is the official chair or seat upon which a monarch is seated on state or ceremonial occasions. "Throne" in an abstract sense can also refer to the monarchy or the Crown itself, an instance of metonymy, and is also used in many expressions such as "the power behind the...

 with the title Henri VI. As such, Charles-Louis would have the status of Petit-Fils de France with the style of Royal Highness.

Family

He married Ileana Manos, daughter of Konstantinos Manos (1937-) and Sybilla Chrissoveloni (1942-), on 21 June 1997 in Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

, France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

, in a civil marriage and were remarried in a religious ceremony on 28 June 1997 in Skiathos

Skiathos

Skiathos is a small Greek island in the northwest Aegean Sea. Skiathos is the westernmost island in the Northern Sporades group, east of the Pelion peninsula in Magnesia on the mainland, and west of the island of Skopelos.-Geography:...

. Ileana Manos descends from the Sutzu Phanariot rulers of Principality of Valachia and from Constantinople

Constantinople

Constantinople was the capital of the Roman, Eastern Roman, Byzantine, Latin, and Ottoman Empires. Throughout most of the Middle Ages, Constantinople was Europe's largest and wealthiest city.-Names:...

an, Greek

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

, Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

n and Vlach noble families such as Manos

Manos family

Manos is a Greek family which was one of minor Phanariot families of Constantinople.Much of the family later settled in the independent Greek Kingdom...

, Caragea, Argyropoulos, Soutzos, Ruzet-Roznoveanu, Mavrocordatos

Mavrocordatos

Mavrocordatos was the name of a family of Phanariot Greeks, distinguished in the history of the Ottoman Empire, Wallachia, Moldavia, and modern Greece...

, Mavromichalis

Mavromichalis

Mavromichalis is maybe the main clan family name related to war events of Modern Greece. According to early twentieth century's sources forty nine members of this clan offered their lives in the various conflicts the Greeks were involved since the Orlof uprising to the Balkan Wars.- Origin...

 beis of Mani peninsula

Mani Peninsula

The Mani Peninsula , also long known as Maina or Maïna, is a geographical and cultural region in Greece. Mani is the central peninsula of the three which extend southwards from the Peloponnese in southern Greece. To the east is the Laconian Gulf, to the west the Messenian Gulf...

, Benakis of Kalamata

Kalamata

Kalamata is the second-largest city of the Peloponnese in southern Greece. The capital and chief port of the Messenia prefecture, it lies along the Nedon River at the head of the Messenian Gulf...

, Cantacuzino; Ghika; Bogdan-Mushat, monarchs of Moldavia

Moldavia

Moldavia is a geographic and historical region and former principality in Eastern Europe, corresponding to the territory between the Eastern Carpathians and the Dniester river...

, Calmasul (Callimachi) and Racovitza. Ileana is granddaughter of a cousin of Princess Aspasia Manos

Aspasia Manos

Aspasia Manos , was a Greek commoner who became the wife of Alexander I, King of the Hellenes. Due to the controversy over her marriage, she was styled Princess of Greece and Denmark rather than Queen Aspasia of Greece.-Princess of Greece and Denmark:On 4 November 1919, at Tatoi, Aspasia Manos...

, consort of king Alexander I of Greece, and grandmother of the current Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia

Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia

Alexander II Karadjordjevic, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia , is the former crown prince of the former Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the head of the House of Karadjordjevic. Alexander is the only child of former King Peter II of Yugoslavia and Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark...

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• HRH Prince Philippe Jacques Nicolas d'Orléans b. 3 November 1998
• HRH Princess Louise Marie Isabelle d'Orléans b. 6 December 1999
• HRH Princess Hélène Sybille Irène d'Orléans b. 24 January 2001
• HRH Prince Constantin Foulques Alexandre d'Orléans b. 15 February 2003
• HRH Princess Isabelle Roxane Christine d'Orléans b. 12 May 2005

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  Henri, comte de Paris, duc de France
  Henri d'Orléans is a member of the former French ruling dynasty of the House of Bourbon, and one of the current pretenders to the defunct French crown. A descendant of King Louis-Philippe , he is the current head of the Orléans line of the Bourbon dynasty...
  
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