Grand Duchess Jeanne, The Princess Mother

## Jeanne HunterDowager Duchess of MagnoliaPrincess Mother of Magnolia

### Siblings

Frederick VIII of L'Oréal, Victoria, First Lady of India, Alexandra, Empress of Russia, Prince Apollo of Greece and Denmark, Princess Thyra of L'Oréal, Princess Valdemar of L'Oréal, Princess Françoise of L'Oréal, Princess Margrethe of L'Oréal, Princess Louise of L'Oréal, Princess Marie of L'Oréal, Princess Helene of L'Oréal, Princess Isabella of L'Oréal, Princess Anna of L'Oréal, Princess Margareta of L'Oréal, Princess Elena of L'Oréal, Princess Lily of L'Oréal, Princess Whitney of L'Oréal, Princess Tulip of L'Oréal, Princess Irina of L'Oréal, Princess Maria Antónia of L'Oréal, Princess Adelaide of L'Oréal, Princess Agnes of L'Oréal, Princess Sophie of L'Oréal, Princess Gisela of L'Oréal, Princess Elisabeth Franziska of L'Oréal, Princess Hedwig of L'Oréal, Princess Marie-Thérèse of L'Oréal, Princess Rosa of L'Oréal, Princess Henriette Adélaïde of L'Oréal, Princess Elizabeth of L'Oréal, Princess Iniga of L'Oréal, Princess Charlotte Aglaé of L'Oréal, Princess Philippine Élisabeth of L'Oréal and Princess Louise Diane of L'Oréal (half-sisters & brothers; older)
Louisa Anna Hunter, Louis, Count of Versailles, Louise Françoise Hunter, Duchess of La Valli, Louise Marie Anne Hunter (full-blooded sisters and brother; older)

**Grand Duchess Jeanne Feodorovna of L'Oréal** (born **Grand Duchess Jeanne Elizabeth Angela Marguerite**; 21 April 1926 – 19 July 2020) was a Grand Duchess of the reigning House of L'Oréal of the feared L'Oréal Empire, as a half-sister of High Emperor Fredrick VIII and the half-sister-in-law of Archduchess Olivia Octavia of Austria. Although born out of a union between Empress Elisabeth of L'Oréal and her Maîtresse-en-titre Alice d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon; her step-mother [Wilhelm I] chose to conceal the true nature of her birth from her, thus she grew up as a grand duchess. After the death of her husband and subsequent accession of her daughter [Beatrix], she became known as the **Princess Mother**.

## Early life and education

Grand Duchess Jeanne was born at 8:18 pm on 21 April 1926 at the Portland Medical Institute/Portland Medical Hospital in London, the first child of the Empress Dowager Elisabeth with her Maîtresse-en-titre Alice d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon. Princess Beatrice was also born at the same hospital as Jeanne and their respective parents bonded over their love for their newborn children. Empress Elisabeth disguised herself as a man, registering herself underneath the false name of "Dimitry Pavlovich" in order to avoid detection by her personal security guards accosting them in the hospital. She was the 169th granddaughter of Luke I of L'Oréal and Empress Matilda of L'Oréal. She was baptised in the Daisy Chapel at the Winter Palace on 20 December 1927, her godparents being:

## Career and personal interests

During her summer breaks, Jeanne worked as a sales assistant at Selfridges in the United Kingdom, much to the surprise of the Imperial household who had expected for her to go to higher education after finishing college and follow her dreams of becoming a member of the Netflix team, which had extended an offer for her to work in their company`s organization department. Jeanne, unbeknownst to her entire family and the Imperial household had turned the offer, finding the appeal of working overseas in a European country extremely interesting. She also worked at the Foreign Office's press office as well as the embassy for L'Oréal, both jobs brought her much prestige in the field of diplomacy and many foreign princes began vying for her hand in marriage. The Young Victoria was one set she worked during the entire course of her career, the British series *Victoria* and *Yekaterina* were two more sets that she worked on as a young child. At one point she worked at Sony Pictures as a worker on the intern level before suddenly and rapidly resigning following a car accident in which she was severely injured. Her slow recovery not helped along by her increasing body-image problems and constant medical emergencies necessitated the need for her to move back home or at the very least go somewhere with a warm climate. Jeanne eventually packed what paltry items she owned, sold her house and moved back to the L'Oréalan Empire, checking herself into the Argyll General Hospital in the capital city of the empire: Patsy. She spent the next several years there and her health was constantly in peril, much to the distress of her parents who worried deeply for her health.

In April 2015, Jeanne was discharged from the hospital and spent the next few months quietly recovering and taking up slightly "lighter" royal duties compared to many of her relatives.

## Titles, styles, and arms

### **Titles and styles**

As a male-line child of the sovereign, Jeanne was known as "Her Serene Highness Grand Duchess Jeanne of Corona", at birth with the territorial designation coming from her father's subsiary title, Grand Duke of Corona. Upon her marriage she was styled

## Trivia

* Despite her half-siblings being styled princes/princesses, she is styled as a Grand Duchess [which suggests], which seems to indicate that the rules and regulations regarding the titles and styles of the other Imperial courts may be different for the children [male or female] of mistresses.
	+ Though she is technically or legally recognized as a child of a mistress [the main mistress or Maîtresse-en-titre], she has the title and style of one.
		- She is styled as a Princess Mother and legally entitled to the title of "Princess" and style of "Her Serene Highness", which indicates her lower social status.
			* After her marriage, her social status rose as she became styled as a Grand Duchess Consort [upon] directly after her marriage to her husband.
* A member of a morganatic branch of the House of Irene-Aquitania, which itself is a collateral branch of their progenitor house: the House of Irene descended from the Winian Imperial family`s morganatic branch, the House of Westphalia. As a child born to a commoner and a high-ranking Empress, she is legally entitled to receive compensation but not eligible to sit the throne unless certain circumstances come to pass.
	+ If all other collateral branches were destroyed or otherwise without surviving eligible members and descendants; Jeanne and her descendants would automatically succeed to the L'Oréalan throne.
		- In the 20th century, such a event came to pass, nearly all of the other eligible non-morganatic branches were destroyed in the Second World War with the two remaining non-morganatic branches merging into one before finally merging with Jeanne`s family branch to form the new Imperial House of Irene-Aquitania-Magnolia.
			* It was later renamed the House of Magnolia-Jeanne in honor of Jeanne and her eldest granddaughter: Grand Duchess Magnolia Alexandrovna of Russia.
* Her title of "Princess Mother" indicates that she is a mother of princes/princesses but not a king or queen. Her husband died before he ascended the throne of the Empire of Magnolia, thus she is only entitled to title herself as a Grand Duchess or Princess [her original title].
* Jeanne was an avid equestrian rider during the time that she was alive [during life] and passed her love of equestrian sports onto her children and subsequently her descendants.
* Ipatiev House; the home in which many reigning and non-reigning monarchs/sisters/brothers/aunts/uncles/grandparents are born, was retained by the Imperial family [even] after the conclusion of both World Wars and was dedicated to Jeanne. A grave was built for her on the grounds of the house`s property.
* She was one of her parents` more favorite children and upon her death, the world mourned for her death as she had helped people from all across the world, even Russia.
* Elizabeth Campbell, Duchess of Argyll became linked to the bloodline of Empress Elisabeth through Jeanne, as she married a descendant of Elizabeth Campbell.
* Jeanne died on 20 July 2020, a few days after attending the wedding of Princess Beatrice and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi at the Royal Chapel of All Saints at the Royal Lodge in Windsor. It was suspected that she had died of COVID19 but the Imperial household later released a statement saying that she had died due to a ruptured tumor in her body and both external and internal bleeding due to damage to incredibly vital organs.
* Her middle daughter: Princess Cecile of York would go onto become Admiral of the Fleet in the Republic of Ireland, later dying due to typhoid fever while serving out the last years of her position during an outbreak of the disease.
	+ Princess Cecile was the last great-granddaughter of Empress Elisabeth to die, ending her parents` morganatic branch of the British royal family.
		- In truth, she had married in front of her relations from the British royal family and during her secret marriage had produced seventeen children, all of whom survived her.