Marie-Caroline of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duchess of Berry[1] (Maria Carolina Ferdinanda Luise; 5 November 1798 – Brunsee, Styria, Austria[2] 16 April 1870) was an Italian princess of the House of Bourbon who married into the French royal family, and was the mother of Henri, Count of Chambord.

Her mother died in 1801; her father married again in 1802 to Infanta Maria Isabella of Spain, another first cousin, and had twelve more children.

Both Charles and his elder son abdicated; but their cousin Louis Philippe of Orléans, who happened to be Caroline's paternal uncle by marriage, did not proclaim Henri as King.

[3][4] Caroline did not find conditions in Edinburgh agreeable, nor did she accept her son's exclusion from the throne by the Orléanist "King of the French".

[3] From Naples, with the help of the Vicomte de Saint Priest, she intrigued for a Legitimist rebellion to "restore" Henri to the throne.

She also secretly married an Italian nobleman, Ettore Carlo Lucchesi-Palli, 8th Duca della Grazia (1805–1864) on 14 December of that year.

After remaining hidden for five months in a house in Nantes, she was betrayed by Simon Deutz to the government in November 1832,[6] and imprisoned in the Chateau of Blaye.

She had French nationality by her marriage to the Duke of Berry, but lost it by her remarriage to an Italian; thus she was in theory ineligible to serve as regent.

In the turmoil of the Risorgimento, they had to sell the palazzo to her grandson, Prince Henry, Count of Bardi, and many of its fine works of art were auctioned in Paris.

[13] She had several genre scenes by Auguste-Xavier Leprince[11] and she owned works by Jan van der Heyden,[14] Michel Philibert Genod,[15] François Marius Granet, Pauline Auzou, Jean-Claude Bonnefond, Charles Marie Bouton, Martin Drolling, Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot, Achille Etna Michallon, Paul Veronese, Titian and Bellini,[16] among many others.

[17] Having lost within two months, at the beginning of 1864, her daughter, Duchess of Parma, and her second husband, who had ruined her—five million francs in debt—she had her son Count of Chambord pay her debt in exchange for the estate in Brunsee and Ca' Loredan Vendramin Calergi.