the United Kingdom until 1912, when he moved his primary residence to Belgium. In 1914, Philippe and his wife Maria Dorothea were legally separated. She subsequently lived in Hungary. At the outbreak of the First World War, Philippe again tried unsuccessfully to join the French army. He was also refused permission to serve in the Belgian army and instead returned to the United Kingdom. A plan to join the Italian army was prevented by a serious accident in which he was knocked down by a bus. In 1926, Philippe died of pneumonia at the Palais d'Orléans in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. Having no legitimate issue, he was succeeded as pretender to the defunct throne of France by his cousin and brother in law, Jean, Duke of Guise. Publications Philippe wrote a number of works based on his many travels: Une expédition de chasse au Népal ("A hunting trip to Nepal"), Paris: C. Lévy, 1892. Une croisière au Spitzberg, yacht Maroussia, 1904, Paris: Imprimerie de Chaix, 1904 Croisière océanographique: accomplie à bord de la Belgica dans la Mer du Grönland, 1905, Brussels: C. Bulens, 1907 La revanche de la banquise: un été de dérive dans la mer de Kara, juin-septembre 1907, Paris: Plon-Nourrit, 1909 Campagne Arctique de 1907, Brussels: C. Bulens, 1910–1912 Hunters and Hunting in the Arctic, London: David Nutt, 1911 (published in French as Chasses et chasseurs arctiques, Paris: Librairie Plon, 1929) He also published a collection of the papers of his father and of the Henri, comte de Chambord: La monarchie française: lettres et documents politiques (1844–1907), Paris: Librairie nationale, 1907 Honours Duke of Orleans Land in NE Greenland was named after him. Ancestry Notes Bibliography Lafon, Marie-Françoise. Philippe, duc d'Orléans, 1869–1926: explorateur, navigateur, naturaliste. Paris: Société nouvelle des Editions Boubée, 1999. Colleville, Ludovic, comte de. Le duc d'Orléans intime: la jeunesse du duc d'Orléans, à l'armée des Indes, le duc en France, son arrestation, le mariage du duc d'Orléans, croisières, le mouvement néo-royaliste. Paris: Librairie F. Juven, 1905. "Obituary: The Duke of Orleans". The Times ( 29 March 1926): 9. "Death of the Duke of Orleans". The Times ( 29 March 1926): 14. "French Pretender Ill With Pneumonia". The New York Times ( 28 March 1926): 18. "French Pretender is Dead in Sicily". The New York Times. ( 29 March 1926): 1. "France Uncertain on New Pretender". The New York Times. ( 30 March 1926): 15. Philipps, R.