Editing House of Bonaparte (section)

==Living members==
[[Charles, Prince Napoléon]] (born 1950, great-great-grandson of Jérôme Bonaparte by his second marriage), and his son [[Jean-Christophe, Prince Napoléon]] (born 1986 and appointed heir in the will of his grandfather [[Louis, Prince Napoléon]]){{citation needed |date=March 2025}}currently dispute the headship of the Bonaparte family.<ref>{{cite news|last= Herbert|first= Susannah|title= Father and son in battle for the Napoléonic succession|date = 12 March 1997|url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1997/12/03/wnap03.html|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20030905230755/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1997/12/03/wnap03.html|url-status= dead|archive-date= 5 September 2003|access-date = 4 June 2007|location= London|work= The Daily Telegraph}}</ref> The only other male members of the family are Charles's recently married (2013) brother, Prince Jérôme Napoléon (born 1957) and Jean-Christophe's son, Prince Louis Napoléon (born 2022). There are no other legitimate descendants in the male line from Napoleon I or from his brothers.

There are, however, numerous descendants of Napoleon's illegitimate, unacknowledged son, Count Alexandre Colonna-Walewski (1810–1868), born from [[Napoleon|Napoleon I]]'s union with Marie, Countess Walewski. A descendant of Napoleon's sister [[Caroline Bonaparte]] was actor [[René Auberjonois]]. Recent DNA-matches with living descendants of Jérôme and Count Walewski have confirmed the existence of descendants of Lucien Bonaparte, Napoleon's brother, namely the Clovis family.<ref name=newadv>{{cite journal |journal= Journal of Molecular Biology Research |volume= 5 |number= 1 |year= 2015 |title= New Advances Reconstructing the Y Chromosome Haplotype of Napoleon the First Based on Three of his Living Descendants |first1= Gerard |last1= Lucotte |first2= Peter |last2= Hrechdakian |page= 1 |doi= 10.5539/jmbr.v5n1p1|doi-access= free }}</ref>

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File:Le duc de Reichstadt.jpg|[[Napoleon II]] - Napoleon I's only legitimate child
File:Charles, comte Léon.jpg|[[Charles Léon|Charles, Count Léon]] (1806–1881), son of Napoleon I
File:Aleksander Colonna-Walewski.jpg|Count [[Alexandre Colonna-Walewski]], Napoleon I's unacknowledged son
File:King Jerome Bonaparte.jpg|[[Jérôme Bonaparte]], founder of the surviving legitimate Bonapartist line of succession
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