Micaela, Countess of Paris

Micaela Ana María del Pilar Cousiño[2] (30 April 1938 – 13 March 2022) was a Chilean-Spanish noblewoman and second wife of Henri, Count of Paris, Orléanist pretender to the French throne from 1999 until his death in 2019.

Micaela Ana María del Pilar Cousiño was born in Vichy, Allier, France, on 30 April 1938.

She was the daughter of Luis Maximiliano Cousiño, heir to one of the largest family fortunes of Chile, dating from the 18th century, and his wife, Antonia Quiñones de Léon, 4th Marchioness of San Carlos, of the marquesses of Montevirgen.

This marriage was without the consent of Henri's father, then head of the House of Orléans, who initially declared Henri disinherited,[5] substituting the non-dynastic title Comte de Mortain for his son's Clermont countship (the latter once held in appanage by a son of Louis IX of France, who became ancestor of the Bourbon-Orléans line).

Henri refused to acknowledge this title, but this act created a lasting division within the Orléans family.