In 1803, Jerome Bonaparte falls in love with a wealthy American still a child, named Elizabeth Patterson. Not asking permission of his elder brother, emperor of the French, they were married in Baltimore. But their happiness does not last long. In 1805, when Jerome went to France with his pregnant wife, his brother, just crowned emperor, prohibited from landing and breaks the marriage by an imperial decree. After having given birth to London, Elizabeth returned to Baltimore with his child Jerome-Napoleon Bonaparte.
The latter marry, and would become in 1881 the father of…
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