Louis, brother of Napoleon I & husband of Hortense…

… was made King of Holland 1806-1810, after which Napoleon stripped him of his title because he felt he was doing a terrible job.

Louis was 24 when he married 19 year old Hortense, and they had a “difficult” marriage.  They had a son who died in 1807 as a child.  When she gave birth to a second son 2 months early, rumors had it the father was not Louis, but he accepted the child as his own heir without question.

The son was named Charles-Louis Napoleon Bonaparte.

(portrait:  Hortense, wife of Louis Bonaparte, Napoleon’s brother, with her son Charles-Louis Bonaparte & daughter in about 1809)