Hortense de Beauharnais

Hortense de Beauharnais
Duchess of Saint-Leu
Queen consort of Holland
Tenure	5 June 1806 – 1 July 1810
Born	10 April 1783 Paris, France
Died	5 October 1837 (aged 54) Arenenberg, Thurgau, Switzerland
Burial	St Pierre-St Paul Church, Rueil-Malmaison, France
Spouse	Louis Bonaparte ​ (m. 1802)​
Issue	Napoléon-Charles Napoléon-Louis Napoleon III Charles, Duke of Morny (ill.)
House	Beauharnais
Father	Alexandre de Beauharnais
Mother	Joséphine Tascher de la Pagerie

Royal styles of Queen Hortense of Holland
Reference style	Her Majesty
Spoken style	Your Majesty

Hortense Eugénie Cécile Bonaparte (French pronunciation: [ɔʁtɑ̃s øʒeni sesil bɔnapaʁt]; née de Beauharnais, pronounced [də boaʁnɛ]; 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.