Hortense de Beauharnais was Queen of Holland. By what right? Well - her mom was married to Napoleon Bonaparte and she was married to Napoleon's brother Louis Bonaparte. Hortense did not like Louis, but she liked The Netherlands and the Dutch liked her. She wound up in Switzerland when the Napoleonic era came to an end. She had two sons who survived childhood. One, Louis-Napoleon became Emperor Napoleon III and married Eugénie de Montijo. She also had an illegitimate son who was created Duc de Morny by his half-brother Napoleon III. The Duc de Morny married Sophie Trubetzkaya. According to Hortense's Wikipedia article, "She is buried next to her mother Joséphine in the Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul church in Rueil-Malmaison."
She was an accomplished watercolor painter and composed rousing marches for Napoleon's forces.

1806 (estimated) Hortense de Beauharnais with her son Napoleon Charles Bonaparte by François-Pascal-Simon Gérard (private collection)

1806 Hortense de Beauharnais, reine de Hollande with Napoleon Charles Bonaparte by François-Pascal-Simon Gérard (Versailles)

1806-1810 Hortense Eugénie de Beauharnais, koningin van Holland by Charles Howard Hodges (Rijksmuseum - Amsterdam, Holland)

1897 Lady Aileen Wyndham Quin as Queen Hortense Duchess of Devonshire’s Diamond Jubilee Costume Ball dress

Queen Hortense of Holland wearing a cameo tiara now in the royal jewel collection of Sweden (auctioned)

Hortense in Napoleonic court dress by Jean-Baptiste Regnault (Château de Malmaison, Malmaison France)

1808 Josephine and Hortense at ceremony honoring the painter David at the Louvre by Jean Gros (Versailles) by Gérard Blot

1808 Josephine and Hortense at ceremony honoring the painter David at the Louvre by Jean Gros (Versailles) outtake

Lavender Moire Silk Court Train, First Decade 19th Century (Centraal Museum - Utrecht, provincie Utrecht Holland)

1812 (estimated) Hortense, Napoleon Louis, and Louis Napoleon by ? (Musées de l'île d'Aix, Île d'Aix France)
