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Maria Annunziata Carolina Bonaparte ( Ajaccio , Corsica , 25 March 1782 – 18 May 1839 in Florence ), better known as '''Caroline Bonaparte''', was the seventh surviving child and third surviving daughter of Carlo Buonaparte and Letizia Ramolino . Caroline was born in Ajaccio , Corsica . She was a younger sister of Joseph Bonaparte , Napoleon I Of France , Lucien Bonaparte , Elisa Bonaparte , Louis Bonaparte and Pauline Bonaparte . She was an older sister of Jérôme Bonaparte . In 1793 , Caroline moved with her family to France during the French Revolution . There she fell in love with Joachim Murat , one of her brother's generals, and they married on January 20 , 1800 . They were parents to four children:
Ambitious and power-hungry, she became Grand Duchess of Berg and Cleves on March 15 , 1806 . She became Queen Consort of Naples on August 1 , 1808 . The birth of Napoléon II to her namesake brother and his second Empress Consort Marie Louise Of Austria , destroyed any hope of her son Napoléon Achille Murat succeeding to her brother. So she allied with Napoléon's rival, Klemens Wenzel Von Metternich . When he failed in his attempt to secure the throne for Murat, the latter was executed and Caroline fled to the Austrian Empire . She died in Florence . TRIVIA
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