Charlotte Bonaparte Gabrielli
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Carlotta Bonaparte principessa Gabrielli, by Jean-Baptiste Wicar, 1815
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| Born |
22 February 1795 Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume |
| Died | 13 May 1865 (aged 70) Palazzo Gabrielli, Rome |
| Spouse | Mario Gabrielli, prince Prossedi and Roccasecca, duke of Pisterzo Settimio Centamori |
| House | Bonaparte |
| Father | Lucien Bonaparte |
| Mother | Christine Boyer |
Filistine Charlotte Bonaparte (22 February 1795 - 13 May 1865) was a French Napoleonic princess and the eldest daughter of Lucien Bonaparte and Christine Boyer. She became princess Gabrielli following her marriage to Mario Gabrielli, prince of Prossedi and Roccasecca, duke of Pisterzo. In Italy she was known as Carlotta.
She was born at Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, the daughter of Lucien Bonaparte (1775–1840), the first prince of Canino and Musignano, and his first wife Christine Boyer (1773–1800), herself the daughter of Pierre Boyer. She was the granddaughter of Carlo Buonaparte and his wife Letizia Ramolino, and the niece of the emperor Napoleon I. Her paternal grandmother, Letizia Ramolino (Madame Mère) nicknamed her "Lolotte". She spent her childhood in France and Spain and from 1804 onwards was educated by nuns in Italy.
Early marriage arrangements to the Spanish prince Ferdinando of the Asturias (later Ferdinand VII of Spain) and the grand-duke of Wurzburg (later Ferdinand III of Tuscany) were planned for her by Napoleon but eventually not concluded. When in 1809 Napoleon divorced his wife Joséphine de Beauharnais, the possibility that he might marry Charlotte was taken into consideration, as this would have consolidated family power. Charlotte was thus sent to live with her grandmother (Napoleon's mother, Madame Mère) in Paris in March 1810; eventually however the emperor did not favour a marriage with his niece. As a consequence of the increasingly abrasive relationship between Lucien and Napoleon, in August 1810 Charlotte, her father, stepmother Alexandrine de Bleschamps, siblings and household attempted to sail to the United States, but were captured by the British and forced to reside in England until the fall of Napoleon (1814).
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