Josephine of Baden, sister of Marie Amelie..

was born at Mannheim, the daughter of Charles, Grand Duke of Baden and his wife, Stéphanie de Beauharnais, adopted daughter of Napoleon Bonaparte the 1st.

Through her eldest son Leopold, she is the ancestress of the Romanian royal family and the Yugoslav Royal Family. Through her daughter Marie, she is also the ancestress of the Belgian royal family and the Grand Ducal family of Luxemburg.

(We are finishing up discussion of the fashionable Napoleon family; these being the children of Stephanie De Beauharnais who was the charge of Napoleon and a cousin of his 1st wife Josephine’s children by a previous marriage).