Napoleon Bonaparte declared himself Emperor of France in 1804. With that, he brought back the French Royal Family. It had ended in 1793 when Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette lost their heads. Napoleon had a younger brother named Jerome Bonaparte who traveled to America and married the wealthy daughter of a Baltimore merchant. When the young couple returned to France Napoleon was not happy with the union and refused Elizabeth to enter the country, even though she was pregnant. She returned to the United States and within 2 years, Jerome had married another woman.
Elizabeth's son was "Royal" however and gained some fame and reputation in both France and the United States. For more than 150 years the Baltimore Bonapartes were high society until the last heir, tripped while walking his dog and split his skull open.
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