What is Prince of Carignan?
[[File:Armoiries Savoie-Carignan 1656.svg|thumb|right|200px|The arms of the Princes of Carignan]] [[File:Museo del Risorgimento italiano.JPG|thumb|right|200px|The ''[[Palazzo Carignano]]'' in [[Turin]].]] [[File:Mosnier - The Princess of Lamballe.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The [[Princess of Lamballe]] by Jean Laurent Mosnier. Princess Marie Louise of Savoy was a daughter of Prince Louis Victor who later married a French [[prince of the blood]] and later became a great friend of [[Marie Antoinette]] and was later killed in the [[French Revolution]].]] The title of '''Prince of Carignan''' is the French form of the Italian title of ''Prince of Carignano''. The title is more often than not seen in its French form due to the many ties the Carignans had with [[House of Bourbon|French royalty]] and the minor nobility The title stems from a younger son of Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy. Due to their links with the [[House of Savoy|former Ducal family of Savoy]] the Prince was entitled to the highest rank at the Savoyard court and should the ruling Duke die without heirs the Prince was entitled to succeed to the Ducal throne. The Princes had a Palace in [[Turin]] called the ''[[Palazzo Carignano]]''. The title is similar to that of [[Prince of Condé]] in [[France]]. It was a junior line of the House of Savoy. It was founded by Prince Thomas Francis of Savoy, Prince di Carignano 21 December 1596 – 22 January 1656), an Italian military commander. His descendants were accepted as ''princes strangers'' (Foreign Princes) at the court of France, where some held prominent positions, eventually coming to reign as kings of Sardinia from 1831 to 1861 and as kings of Italy from 1861 until the dynasty's deposition in 1946. The Carignanos also, briefly, supplied a king each to Spain and to Croatia, as well as [[queen]]s consort to [[Bulgaria]] and [[Portugal]]. Following the succession of Charles Albert to the throne the title was not used again the family preferring to use other titles named after Italian cities. The famous [[Pri