page_title: Elizabeth Charlotte, Madame Palatine
section_title: Popular culture
hierarchical_section_title: Elizabeth Charlotte, Madame Palatine / Popular culture
caption_attribution_description: English: Arms of Élisabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, Princess Palatine as Duchess of Orléans
context_page_description: Princess Elisabeth Charlotte, was a German princess member of the House of Wittelsbach and, as Madame, the second wife of Philippe I, Duke of Orléans and mother of Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, France's ruler during the Regency. She gained literary and historical importance primarily through her correspondence, which is of cultural and historical value due to her sometimes very blunt descriptions of French court life and is today one of the best-known German-language texts of the Baroque period.
  Although she only had two surviving children, she not only became the ancestress of the House of Orléans, which came to the French throne with Louis Philippe I, the so-called "Citizen King" from 1830 to 1848, but also became the ancestress of numerous European royal families, so she was also called the “Grandmother of Europe”. Through her daughter she was the grandmother of Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor, the husband of Maria Theresa, and great-grandmother of Joseph II and Leopold II and Marie Antoinette, the last Queen of France before the French Revolution.
context_section_description: 1932: Liselott - Singspiel by Richard Keßler, music by Eduard Künneke, performed in Heidelberg in 2004–2005.
  1935: Liselotte von der Pfalz - UFA film, director and screenplay: Carl Froelich, literary source: Rudolf Presber. Liselotte was played by Renate Müller.
  1966: Liselotte von der Pfalz - Director: Kurt Hoffmann. Liselotte was played by Heidelinde Weis
  2014: A Little Chaos - British film, directed by Alan Rickman. Liselotte was played by Paula Paul.
  2017–2018: Versailles - BBC series. Liselotte was played by Jessica Clark.
caption: Arms of alliance of Liselotte as Duchess of Orléans (Bourbon-Wittelsbach).
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