Bulgaria Medal 1899 King Ferdinad I_For Death of Princess Maria Luisa_Original!

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Bulgaria Medal 1899 King Ferdinad I "For Death of Princess Maria Luisa"
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Nice
and Original
medal.
Bronze, gild, diameter 4,3 cm.
Averse of medal - inscription in bulgarian - ''Don't forget and commemorate our beloved Bulgarian Princess Marie Louise''
Reverse of medal - Bulgaria Royal family with inscriptions of the names.
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Princess Maria Luisa of Bourbon-Parma (Marie Louise Pia Theresa Anna Ferdinanda Francisca Antonia Margaret Josepha Carolina Blanche Lucia Apollonia;17 January 1870 – 31 January 1899) was the eldest daughter of Robert I, the last reigning Duke of Parma. She became Princess-consort of Bulgaria upon her marriage to Ferdinand of Bulgaria, the then prince-regnant (who became Tsar after her death). She was the mother of Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria.
In 1892, her father arranged her marriage to the then reigning Prince of Bulgaria, Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. The negotiations were conducted between Duke Robert and Ferdinand's mother, Princess Clémentine of Orléans. The engagement was celebrated at the Castle of Schwartzau, the residence of the Bourbon-Parma family in Austria. Marie-Louise and Ferdinand had never met prior to that day. Princess Clémentine, who was present on that occasion, described her future daughter-in-law in a letter to Queen Victoria as "Unhappily not very pretty, it is the only thing which is lacking, since she is charming, good, very witty, intelligent and very likable".
The wedding took place on 20 April 1893 at the Villa Pianore in Lucca, Italy, the residence of Duke Roberto in Italy. Marie Louise was twenty three, nine years younger than Ferdinand. The couple wasted no time producing an heir, with son Boris born nine months and ten days later.
Disillusionment in her private life and bearing four children in five years affected her frail health. Suffering from pneumonia, Marie Louise died in Sofia, twenty four hours after giving birth to her fourth child. Aged just 29, she was buried in the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St Louis of France in Plovdiv.
Children:
Prince Boris of Bulgaria (1894–1943), Prince of Turnovo and Tsar 1918-1943 (as Boris III)
Prince Kiril of Bulgaria (1895–1945), Prince of Preslav
Princess Eudoxia of Bulgaria (1898–1985)
Princess Nadezhda of Bulgaria (1899–1958), married Duke Albrecht Eugen of Württemberg
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