Charles Philippe Marie Louis d'Orléans (born 3 March 1973) is a member of the House of Orléans. He is the elder of two sons of Prince Michel d'Orléans and his former wife Béatrice Pasquier de Franclieu. His paternal grandfather was Prince Henri d'Orléans, the Orléanist pretender to the French throne. As such, Charles-Philippe takes the traditional royal rank of petit-fils de France with the style of Royal Highness.
Charles-Philippe was an independent candidate in the 2012 French legislative election, standing in the Fifth constituency for French residents overseas, which covers Spain, Portugal, Andorra and Monaco. He finished seventh, with 3.05% of the vote. (Within the constituency, he finished fourth in Portugal, his country of residence, with 7.37%, and fourth also in Monaco, with 5.33%.)
Charles-Philippe served as Grand Master of the Orléans obedience of the Order of Saint Lazarus from 2004 to 2010. Since 2004, he styles himself as "Duke of Anjou".
Marriages and issue
On 21 June 2008, Charles-Philippe married Diana Álvares Pereira de Melo, 11th Duchess of Cadaval. The ceremony took place in the Cathedral of Évora. Both husband and wife are Capetians, descending in unbroken male line from King Robert II of France (972–1031), Charles-Philippe through the elder son, King Henry I of France, via the cadet branch of the House of Bourbon-Orléans, and Diana from his younger son Robert I, Duke of Burgundy through the royal (though illegitimate) Portuguese branch of the House of Braganza. The couple are also fifth cousins once-removed through shared descent from King Francis I of the Two Sicilies.
The couple's only child, Princess Isabelle d'Orléans, was born on 22 February 2012 in Lisbon, Portugal. Her godparents are Princess Maria Theodora zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg and Felipe VI of Spain (then Prince of Asturias).
In December 2022, their divorce was announced.
In March 2023, his engagement to Monegasque shooting champion and former model Naomi-Valeska Kern (née Salz), widow of the German fashion designer Otto Kern, was announced. On 9 September 2023, they were married in a civil ceremony. According to the rules of the House of Orléans, a valid marriage requires the consent of the head of the house (which was not given) and a Catholic Church marriage (which did not take place, as Charles-Philippe's first marriage was not annulled). Jean, Count of Paris, head of the house, announced that due to this second marriage, Charles-Philippe had lost his dynastic rights and that his second wife was simply Madame Charles-Philippe d'Orleans, while his former wife retained her French titles and dignities.
, they are expecting their first child together.
Charles-Philippe and Naomi-Valeska's child, Princess Élisabeth Victoire Jeanne Marie d'Orléans, was born on 15 April 2026 in Monaco.
Politics
Charles-Philippe was an independent candidate in the 2012 French legislative election, standing in the Fifth constituency for French residents overseas, which covers Spain, Portugal, Andorra and Monaco. As a candidate, he described himself as "strongly attached to France's republican values", adding that he might subsequently join "a recomposed centre-right party". He finished seventh, with 3.05% of the vote. (Within the constituency, he finished fourth in Portugal, his country of residence, with 7.37%, and fourth also in Monaco, with 5.33%.)