Presently, 12 imperial family members are adults under the age of 60 and half of these are unmarried princesses between the ages of 20 and 30.

The next year she gave birth to a daughter Sophie, who was known as Mademoiselle as the most senior unmarried princess at court.

She was known unofficially at court as Mademoiselle reflecting her rank as the most senior unmarried princess of the blood at the court.

Because of this, the style was occasionally used by the most senior unmarried princess at the French Court during that period.

The princesses Lucrezia and Leonora d'Este, both unmarried, both his seniors by about ten years, took him under their protection.

The unmarried princess was noted for her good looks and for having such a fine figure for one of her age at the time of her marriage.

His ascension to the regency in 1811 led to Sophia and the other remaining unmarried princesses to receive increases in their allowances, from £10,000 to £13,000.

She was known as Mademoiselle - a very prestigious style of address which was given to the most senior unmarried princess at the court of Versailles.

And on the other hand there are unmarried princesses who suddenly find them- selves alone in the world, quite without protection.

She was fully my own age, thirty, and for all that and her ripeness and beauty a princess still unmarried, as I was to learn.