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Auction: 12002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 370

The Superb and Extremely Rare Saxe-Coburg Hausordern ´Prinzessinnenkreuz´ Attributed to Princess Clémentine of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, née Bourbon-Orléans, Daughter of King Louis-Philippe and Mother of King Ferdinand of Bulgaria Germany, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, House Order, Prinzessinnenkreuz, 54mm including bow suspension x 20mm, gold and enamel, nearly extremely fine, extremely rare, with a fine-quality c.1843 miniature portrait of Princess Clémentine painted on ivory, this cracked in parts, after Sir William Charles Ross, R.A., and housed in the original leather case Estimate £ 6,000-8,000 Princess Marie Clémentine Léopoldine Caroline Clotilde of Orléans was born in March 1817 at the Château de Neuilly, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, soon after the Bourbon Restoration, and in 1830 her father ascended to the French throne as King Louis-Philippe I. In April 1843 she married Prince August Ludwig Victor of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the first cousin of Prince Albert, and for the rest of her life remained a favourite companion of Queen Victoria. Her son, Ferdinand, went on to become first Prince, and then King, of Bulgaria. She died in Vienna in February 1907, aged 89. Provenance: Bestowed upon Princess Clémentine of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, and thence by direct descent

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