Charles, Prince Napoléon (Charles Marie Jérôme Victor Napoléon Bonaparte) (born 19 October 1950) is a French politician, and the father of the current head of the Imperial House of France, Jean-Christophe, as male heir to the rights and legacy established by his great-great-grand-uncle, Emperor Napoléon I.
Charles is the son of the late Louis, Prince Napoléon (1914-1997), and as such a great-great-grandson in the male line of Jérôme Bonaparte, Ki...
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Charles, Prince Napoléon (Charles Marie Jérôme Victor Napoléon Bonaparte) (born 19 October 1950) is a French politician, and the father of the current head of the Imperial House of France, Jean-Christophe, as male heir to the rights and legacy established by his great-great-grand-uncle, Emperor Napoléon I.
Charles is the son of the late Louis, Prince Napoléon (1914-1997), and as such a great-great-grandson in the male line of Jérôme Bonaparte, King of Westphalia, Napoléon's youngest brother. As neither Napoléon I nor Napoléon III of France has legitimate issue in the male line, Jérôme's descendants represent the only Imperial Bonapartes still living (the American Bonapartes were senior in descent from King Jérôme, but the last male of that line died in 1945, nor was this branch ever considered dynastic).
Charles's mother is Alix de Foresta (born 1926), daughter of Albéric, comte de Foresta. Although she was the only consort of the surviving Imperial line not born a princess, her...
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