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unusual facts about Chapelle royale de Dreux



Jean Marie, Duke of Châteauvillain

His sister Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, future Duchess of Orléans would move Jean Marie's body to the Royal Chapel, Dreux; Dreux is today the burial site of the Royal House of Orléans which descends from Marie Adélaïde and her husband, Philippe Égalité.

Louis Marie, Duke of Rambouillet

Buried at the chapel at the Château de Rambouillet, he was later moved by his posthumous sister Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon (wife of the future Philippe Égalité) to the Chapelle royale de Dreux.

Princess Adélaïde of Orléans

She is buried in the Orléans family necropolis in the Chapelle Royale de Dreux.

Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

She was buried at the Chapelle royale de Dreux, the Royal basilica of the House of Orléans, in 1979, having been transferred from the Chapel of Saint Charles Borromeo in Weybridge.


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